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New Delhi: Glitches in ‘Pollution Under Control’ certification for vehicles and entry of polluting trucks into Delhi may come up for discussion in the Assembly Tuesday as Chief Minister Rekha Gupta prepares to table a Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report ‘exposing’ failures...

Nagpur: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Monday dismissed speculation about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's successor, asserting that Modi would continue to lead the country for many more years. Responding to Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut's claim that Modi went to the RSS headquarters in...

Kolkata: Amid the recent protests by a section of UK-based Indians during West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s speech last week at Oxford University’s Kellogg College, a prominent youth leader of the Trinamool Congress Monday accused the party of being silent over the issue. He...

Mumbai: A big question mark hangs over whether controversial comedian Kunal Kamra will appear before Mumbai's Khar Police Monday to record a statement, as there has been no communication from him to the police, said an official. The Mumbai Police have issued two summons to...

New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking cancellation of tenders permitting offshore mining along the coast of Kerala, Gujarat, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Flagging the threat to marine life, the Congress leader...

Raipur: Renuka, also known as Banu, Chaitey, and Saraswati, a prominent member of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee, an entity of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), was killed in an encounter Monday in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. Her body was recovered in...

New Delhi: In a significant change to regulations, oil and gas regulator PNGRB has proposed a new policy for how tariffs for pipelines carrying gas to users will be determined and proposed charging city gas entities selling CNG and piped cooking gas to households at...

New Delhi: A Parliamentary committee has suggested penalties or corrective actions against IAS officers if they fail to file their property details within the prescribed time limit. According to the 145th report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice...

Dantewada (Chhattisgarh): A woman Naxalite was killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region Monday, an official said. The gunfight broke out at around 9am in a forest along the border of Dantewada and Bijapur districts, located in the Bastar region, when...

Bilaspur: A woman cannot be forced to undergo a virginity test as it violates Article 21 of the Constitution, which guarantees her fundamental right to protection of life and liberty, including the right to dignity, the Chhattisgarh High Court has said. Emphasising that Article 21...