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New Delhi: The draft protection rules released by the government create a balance between regulation and innovation while completely protecting citizen rights, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Saturday. The government issued draft rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act Friday for public consultation...

Srinagar: Four army soldiers died and one injured in a road accident in J&K’s Bandipora district Saturday. Initial reports said that Army vehicle veered off the road suddenly and dropped into a deep gorge in Saderkoot Payeen area. Five army soldiers were injured in this...

New Delhi: Eminent physicist Rajagopala Chidambaram, who played a key role in the nuclear tests of 1974 and 1998, died Saturday, according to the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). He was 88. Chidambaram, who was also associated with the nuclear weapons programme, breathed his last...

Chennai: Six workers were killed and several sustained burns in an explosion at a fireworks factory in Sattur in Tamil Nadu's Virudhnagar district Saturday. According to the Sattur Police, the number of fatalities is likely to rise, as the condition of several individuals admitted to...

New Delhi: The BJP Saturday released its first list of 29 candidates for the polls to the 70-member Delhi Assembly, fielding former MP Parvesh Verma from the New Delhi seat against ex-chief minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal. It has named another former MP Ramesh...

Kolkata: West Bengal minister Babul Supriyo and BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay entered into a verbal spat on Vidyasagar bridge across river Hooghly over alleged blowing of a car horn. While Supriyo claimed that the Tamluk MP used foul language against him, Gangopadhyay maintained that it...

Hyderabad: One person was killed and another suffered injuries in a blast at a factory in Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri district of Telangana Saturday. The condition of the injured person, who was undergoing treatment at a hospital, is stable, police said. According to preliminary information, the explosion took...

Bijapur: Three persons have been detained in connection with the murder of a 33-year-old journalist whose body was found in a septic tank on a local contractor's property in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, police said Saturday. Mukesh Chandrakar, a freelance journalist, went missing January 1, and...

New Delhi: The air quality in Delhi-NCR has deteriorated to the 'very poor' category, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) of the national capital recorded at 383 Saturday, according to the Central Pollution Control Board. This marks the second consecutive day that the city's air...

New Delhi: The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) is conducting a re-exam Saturday for candidates of the Bapu Pariksha Parisar centre, where irregularities were reported during the 70th Preliminary Examination. However, students and political parties have vowed to disrupt the exam today. Over 10,000 candidates...