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Tarapith (West Bengal): Eight people died in a fire at a hotel in West Bengal's Birbhum district early Monday, following which police detained one person for alleged lapses in the maintenance of the establishment's fire-fighting system, officials said. Of the 43 people who were in...

New Delhi: India should bring back a petrol variant with a lower ethanol blend to protect millions of older vehicles, according to a government adviser, marking one of the strongest calls yet from a senior official for greater consumer choice amid growing concerns over the...

New Delhi: After renewed issues surfaced over some examinations conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi held a high-level review meeting Monday over its functioning and directed it to conduct a comprehensive audit of all examination processes. The agency is...

New Delhi: BJP Monday appointed academic Deepak Mhaskey as its social media department head, replacing Amit Malviya who had been steering the party's social media outreach for 11 years. Malviya congratulated his successor, a chemistry professor from Chhattisgarh, as well as the party's newly appointed...

Jaipur: Panic gripped Amer in Jaipur Monday morning after a live bomb was discovered in a village field near the CRPF campus. A local woman spotted the suspicious object while passing through Thakrala ki Dhani in Ward No. 148 at around 10:30 a.m. She alerted...

Mumbai: A fire broke out in the basement of the seven-storey Income Tax Office building at Churchgate in south Mumbai Monday afternoon, prompting evacuation of several people using the staircase and specialised ladders, officials said. "An inquiry is going on with the police, Income Tax...

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Monday defended his government's move to approach the Centre for notifying a one-km radius around the Kaziranga National Park as an eco-sensitive zone. He maintained that the government was well within the Supreme Court's directives in this regard...

New Delhi: The government has cleared 31 fresh proposals under the electronics components manufacturing scheme, entailing investments of Rs 7,877 crore, the secretary in the IT ministry, S Krishnan, said Monday. According to Krishnan, the government has received a total investment proposal of Rs 69,548...

New Delhi: Several student organisations on Monday held protests here and announced nationwide demonstrations against the National Testing Agency's decision to re-conduct the UGC-NET examinations for three subjects, alleging that repeated lapses have put students' academic and career plans at risk. The NTA has ordered...

New Delhi: Overall unemployment rate among persons aged 15 years and above declined to 5.1 per cent in July 2026 from 5.5 per cent in the previous month, according to a government survey. According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted by the National...