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Kolkata: Ten days after the swearing-in of the extended cabinet of the BJP government in West Bengal, portfolios were allocated among the ministers Wednesday, with senior leader Tapas Roy named the industries minister and journalist-turned-politician Swapan Dasgupta getting the finance department. According to a notification...

New Delhi: Top Congress leaders met the Election Commission Wednesday, alleging that the nomination papers of Meenakshi Natarajan, its Rajya Sabha candidate from Madhya Pradesh, were wrongly rejected. A delegation of top party leaders, including K C Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala, Jairam Ramesh, Deepa Dasmunshi, Vivek...

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress MP Sushmita Dev Wednesday resigned from the party and the Rajya Sabha, dealing a fresh blow to the Mamata Banerjee-led party which is facing an internal storm after its defeat in the West Bengal Assembly polls. Dev's resignation as MP has...

New Delhi: Vice President C P Radhakrishnan and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Wednesday congratulated Narendra Modi for becoming India's longest continuously serving elected prime minister. Modi, who first assumed office on May 26, 2014, has become the longest continuously serving elected prime minister of...

Kabul: Afghanistan said Wednesday that Pakistan launched new airstrikes targeting the country, killing at least 13 people and wounding 14 others. The countries have engaged in months of fighting that has killed hundreds of people. Taliban chief spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the latest airstrikes targeted...

Srinagar: Two soldiers were killed in an accidental blast near the Line of Control (LoC) in the Uri sector of J&K’s Baramulla district Wednesday, officials said. Official sources said that the incident occurred in the Kamalkote area of the Uri sector. The two soldiers had...

Paris: A coalition of six countries Tuesday issued new joint sanctions on Israeli settlers and settlements in the West Bank, including a hard-line Israeli cabinet minister already sanctioned by Western countries, escalating pressure on Israel over a wave of violence against Palestinians in the occupied...

Bunia (Congo): More than 100 people have died from Ebola less than a month after authorities declared an outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo, a grim toll as officials intensify efforts to slow the disease, discovered weeks late. Attacks on health workers from angry...

Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services Chairman N. Chandrasekaran said Tuesday that the IT software services giant has not received any formal complaints through official channels in connection with the alleged sexual harassment cases at its Nashik unit, while assuring that strict action will be taken if...

Washington: US President Donald Trump Tuesday criticised the federal court order striking down the USD 100,000 H-1B visa fee, saying such actions were hurting the country very badly. "These judges are really giving us a hard time, really crazy. They are giving us a very,...