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New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has slapped a Rs 184-crore FEMA penalty against news portal NewsClick and its editor-in-chief, Prabir Purkayastha, official sources said Monday. The order specifies that the company that owns the portal, PPK NEWSCLICK Studio Private Limited, has been penalised for an...

New Delhi: Twelve candidates have bagged the perfect 100 score in engineering entrance exam JEE-Main 2026, with the maximum of them hailing from Rajasthan, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced Monday. More than 13.04 lakh candidates had appeared for the first edition of the crucial...

New Delhi: A team of Indian officials will visit the US next week to finalise the legal text for an interim trade agreement, which is likely to be signed in March, Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal said Monday. The visit is likely to start February 23....

Jerusalem: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Israel on a two-day visit from February 25 to 26, sources said Monday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first broke news of Modi's visit while addressing the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations on Sunday....

Dhaka: Tarique Rahman will take oath as Bangladesh's new Prime Minister Tuesday after leading his party to a forceful victory in the crucial general elections. Breaking with a long-standing tradition, the swearing-in ceremony of the 60-year-old Bangladesh Nationalist Party Chairman would be held at the...

New Delhi: In a significant development, the Supreme Court Monday agreed to examine a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of several provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023. The top court, however, refused to grant an interim stay on the...

New Delhi: The country's merchandise exports rose marginally by 0.61 per cent to USD 36.56 billion in January, Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal said Monday. Imports increased by 19.2 per cent to USD 71.24 billion in January this year from USD 59.77 billion recorded a year...

Guwahati: Former Assam Congress chief Bhupen Borah has withdrawn his resignation after the party high command's intervention, AICC state in-charge Jitendra Singh claimed Monday. Senior Congress leaders, including Singh and Assam unit chief Gaurav Gogoi met Borah at his residence here, after he sent a...

New Delhi: The world's largest artificial intelligence summit opened to packed halls and long queues Monday, as tech moguls, industry leaders, policymakers, founders, and technologists thronged the venue for the conference, where India is set to push for widening access to AI and seek international...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Monday refused to entertain petitions seeking action against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over a viral video purportedly showing him taking aim and firing with a rifle at members of a particular community. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant...