New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Tuesday alleged a 'conspiracy' by the Centre to defame it, as 58 unknown shell companies have been registered at the address of its national headquarters in New Delhi. AAP's Delhi unit president Saurabh Bharadwaj said these businesses have...
Ankara: An attacker opened fire near a high school in western Turkiye Tuesday and wounded at least 11 people, officials said. The suspected shooter was arrested. At least two of the injured were in serious condition, Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said in a statement on...
Patna: Bihar's Jamui police have arrested Nandan Yadav, the alleged prime accused in the molestation and harassment of a minor girl student, following a police encounter in which he sustained a gunshot injury to his leg, officials said Tuesday. According to police, Yadav was being...
Srinagar: The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs staged a walkout from the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Tuesday in protest against the remarks by ruling National Conference (NC) MLAs over the holiday declared on the birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh. The Assembly witnessed pandemonium...
New Delhi: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that the National Testing Agency (NTA) is being strengthened through a functional-vertical structure, the appointment of senior government officers and the creation of specialised professional positions as part of ongoing reforms. In an additional affidavit filed...
New Delhi: Elections to 12 Rajya Sabha seats across Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal will be held October 16, the Election Commission announced Tuesday. The elections will cover 10 seats from Uttar Pradesh and one from Uttarakhand, where the terms of the sitting members...
Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court has held that doctors who pursue postgraduate medical education at government institutions at subsidised rates cannot evade the mandatory government service bond attached to their admission. A bench of Justice Shekhar B Saraf and Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary in Lucknow...
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old girl was gang-raped by three men posing as cops at a park near Delhi's Kalkaji Mandir, officials have said. According to the officials, the girl and her friend went to Kalkaji Mandir at around 7pm Monday. After...
Mumbai: Students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have demanded changes in the institute's student welfare system and greater focus on mental health, citing concerns raised in the wake of the Sahil Wakode suic*de case. They also said that targeting one professor over...
New York: India and the four-member Visegrad group of Central European countries Monday agreed to step up political, economic and defence cooperation at their first foreign ministers' meeting, which External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar described as a "new historic occasion". The Visegrad Group (V4) is...
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Political satire, which in the present social media age also assumes the form of memes, is a healthy process of...
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