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Jakarta: A fire ripped through an office building in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, Tuesday, killing at least 22 people, including a pregnant woman, police said. Flames engulfed the seven-story building, sending thick black smoke billowing into the sky and causing panic among nearby residents and workers...

New Delhi: Giving a major jolt to Maoists, the security forces have neutralised 29 top Naxal leaders since 2019, with 14 Central Committee Members (CCM) and Politburo members (PBM) killed this year alone, Lok Sabha was informed Tuesday. Responding to a supplementary during the Question...

Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has ordered authorities to demolish the illegal 'Romeo Lane' beach shack at Vagator, owned by the fugitive owners of the fire-ravaged nightclub, after completing all formalities Tuesday. This shack is the third property owned by Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav...

New Delhi: No airline, however large, will be permitted to cause hardship to passengers through planning failures and non-compliance with regulations, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said Tuesday on the mass disruptions in IndiGo flight schedules. Making a statement in the Lok Sabha, Naidu...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday took serious note of BLOs and other officials engaged in SIR 2.0 being "threatened" in West Bengal and other states, and asked the Election Commission to bring such instances to its notice or "it will cause anarchy". A bench...

New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that India should not be "dumping" rice into the United States market and he will "take care" of it, while stressing that tariffs will solve the "problem" easily. Trump held a roundtable in the White House Monday...

Srinagar: A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday carried out searches in the forest area in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir as part of its probe into the November 10 blast near the Red Fort in Delhi, officials said. They said the...

Washington: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved nearly $1.2 billion in new financing for Pakistan, giving the country a critical infusion of support as it struggles to maintain macroeconomic stability amid severe flooding, rising inflation, and persistent fiscal pressures. According to an official release, the...

New Delhi: Lok Sabha is set for a high-stakes debate on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and wider electoral reforms today, following a prolonged impasse that stalled proceedings. The breakthrough came after intense negotiations between the government and the Opposition, culminating in...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was felicitated at a meeting of all MPs of the ruling NDA Tuesday for the coalition's massive victory in the recent Bihar elections. Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and J P Nadda, who is also the BJP president,...