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Dehradun: The Dehradun Police Tuesday said the probe into the death of Tripura student Anjel Chakma has so far found no evidence of racial abuse, and that the youth was assaulted after tempers flared up when he objected to some "banter" among the attackers who...

New Delhi: A PIL was filed in the Supreme Court seeking judicial intervention to address the "continuing constitutional failure" to prevent and respond to racial discrimination and violence against citizens from northeastern states and other frontier regions. The PIL was filed on December 28 in...

Kolkata: Alleging that the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal was abetting infiltration of Bangladeshis for electoral benefit, Union Home Minister Amit Shah Tuesday asserted that the BJP will drive out illegal immigrants once it comes to power in the state. Addressing a press conference...

Dhaka: Khaleda Zia's funeral will be held Wednesday, as Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus Tuesday announced a three-day state mourning and a one-day general holiday following the death of the former Prime Minister. In a televised address to the nation, Yunus urged people to maintain...

Dubai: Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen's port city of Mukalla Tuesday over what it described as a shipment of weapons for a separatist force there that arrived from the United Arab Emirates. The UAE did not immediately acknowledge the strike. The attack signals a new escalation...

Almora: At least seven people were killed after a bus carrying around 18 passengers lost control and plunged into a deep ravine on the Bhikiyasain-Vinayak road in Uttarakhand's Almora district Tuesday morning, officials said. According to official sources, the accident took place near Shilapani on...

New Delhi: The NHRC has sent a notice to the Dehradun district magistrate and the SSP over the allegedly racially charged killing of a student from Tripura in the Uttarakhand capital. The National Human Rights Commission has directed the Dehradun authorities to investigate the allegations...

Florida (US): President Donald Trump warned Iran against reconstituting its nuclear program Monday as he welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his home in Florida for wide-ranging talks. The warning comes after Trump has insisted that Tehran's nuclear capabilities were “completely and fully obliterated”...

Mumbai: Four people, including three women, died and nine were injured after a reversing bus of Mumbai's civic-run transport undertaking BEST knocked down pedestrians Monday night, a police official said. The incident took place around 10 pm at the busy Station Road in suburban Bhandup...

Moscow: Russia Monday claimed that 91 long-range Ukrainian drones attempted to attack President Vladimir Putin's country residence in Novgorod region, north of Moscow. In a televised statement, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the drone attack in the intervening night of Sunday and Monday failed...