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New Delhi: Seven foreign nations the US, France, Germany, Australia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the UAE will participate in the second edition of Exercise Tarang Shakti to be held at the Jodhpur Air Force Station from Spetember 26 to October 12, the Indian Air Force...

New Delhi: Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal Tuesday appeared upbeat over progress in talks between India and the United States for a bilateral trade agreement aimed at benefiting both countries. Goyal said talks with the United States were "moving fast and in a good direction", without...

Hyderabad: The dance by a woman with a python around her neck during the Ganesh immersion procession in Hyderabad has created a stir. A dance group from Visakhapatnam used an Indian Rock Python during a Ganesh immersion procession in Jawhar Nagar. The Greater Hyderabad Society...

Guwahati: Assam Police have arrested four Bangladeshi nationals in Sribhumi district, along with an Indian citizen in connection with suspected cross-border cattle smuggling operation, officials said Tuesday. The five were detained during a late-night operation conducted in the Badarpur area Monday, as police investigated the...

Patna: Bihar's Jamui police have arrested Nandan Yadav, the alleged prime accused in the molestation and harassment of a minor girl student, following a police encounter in which he sustained a gunshot injury to his leg, officials said Tuesday. According to police, Yadav was being...

Srinagar: The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs staged a walkout from the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Tuesday in protest against the remarks by ruling National Conference (NC) MLAs over the holiday declared on the birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh. The Assembly witnessed pandemonium...

Kolkata: Four persons were arrested in two separate cases registered by the Kolkata Police Tuesday morning, in connection with the major violence that broke out recently, in two phases within a college campus at Bhangar in the southern outskirts of Kolkata. The four arrested persons...

New Delhi: The government has suspended an Air India employee following a security and immigration lapse that allowed three foreign nationals to board an international flight without completing mandatory departure immigration formalities, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said Tuesday. The incident, which occurred earlier...

Bhubaneswar: Twenty-four pilgrims, including seven women and some children, were injured, ten of them critically, when a bus carrying devotees from Hooghly in West Bengal rammed into another pilgrim bus on NH-16 near Dhamra Railway Overbridge in Bhadrak district early Sunday, police said. The accident...

New Delhi: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that the National Testing Agency (NTA) is being strengthened through a functional-vertical structure, the appointment of senior government officers and the creation of specialised professional positions as part of ongoing reforms. In an additional affidavit filed...