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Ranchi: Students protesting alleged irregularities in government recruitment examinations in Jharkhand are set to march towards the state Assembly Monday, intensifying their agitation after talks with the Hemant Soren government failed to yield a breakthrough. The protesters said they would hold their peaceful demonstration and...

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay is set to move a special resolution in the State Legislative Assembly Monday seeking to make it mandatory for 'Tamil Thai Vazhthu', the state invocation song, to be rendered first at all government functions. The resolution assumes...

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has urged people to make the annual Kanwar Yatra a festival of social responsibility, service and cooperation, saying the pilgrimage is not merely a religious ritual but also a living expression of social harmony, discipline and India’s cultural...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the transfer of two judges of the Orissa High Court, official sources said Sunday. The collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, took the decision in a meeting held August 6, they said. While Justice...

Thiruvananthapuram/Kasaragod: Kerala Health Minister K Muraleedharan and Congress MP Rajmohan Unnithan Sunday said that the full version of Vande Mataram will not be sung in Kerala. Muraleedharan told reporters that in Kerala, as always, only the first two couplets of the national song will be...

Kolkata: West Bengal Governor R.N. Ravi has called upon all state and private universities in the state to observe August 14 as 'Partition Horrors Remembrance Day'. A statement issued by the Lok Bhavan Sunday said, "Governor R.N. Ravi has called upon all state and Private...

New Delhi: The first test of the Kusha long-range surface-to-air missile system is set to bring India closer to self-reliance and be a key part of Sudarshan Chakra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-phase Mission for a multilayered national defence umbrella, against ballistic missiles, fighter aircraft,...

New Delhi: The final report of the confirmatory drug test of the pilot-in-command of an Air India flight that experienced a sudden loss of altitude while flying from Phuket to Delhi is awaited, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said Sunday. Both flight crew members have...

Ranchi: The Jharkhand government committee set up to talk to students protesting the alleged recruitment exam irregularities Sunday talked to Devendra Nath Mahto, one of the individuals who has been on an indefinite hunger strike for the past eight days, an official said. The condition...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday questioned Home Minister Amit Shah's silence over alleged police brutalities against protesting students and asserted that sooner or later, the BJP leader would have to answer for "this crime". Gandhi said a student told him during his "Chhatron...