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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday refused to interfere with the Election Commission of India's decision to fix 2002 as the base year for the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Sikkim. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and...

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha MP, Abhishek Banerjee Monday approached a single-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court challenging the move by the bank authorities to freeze his bank account just before his scheduled tour to the US...

New Delhi: As the National Testing Agency (NTA) faces public ire over re-examination for UGC-NET papers of three subjects after multiple errors were found in the question papers, the examination conducting body stated that it is proactively identifying issues and correcting them transparently in the...

Bharuch: A fire broke out at a company's premises in the Dahej GIDC industrial area of Bharuch district Monday, prompting the deployment of more than five firefighting teams. The blaze started in the company’s warehouse, where drums containing solvent were stored, officials said. The incident...

New Delhi: As the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the re-examination for the UGC-NET papers for three subjects after multiple errors were found in the question papers, Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi Monday took aim at the Central government and claimed that...

Mumbai: A Level-I fire broke out in a commercial building on Kandiwali Station Road in Mumbai’s Kandivali West early Monday morning, with 11 people safely rescued from a lodging house on the second floor, according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) Mumbai Fire Brigade. The...

Lakhisarai: At least seven people were killed, and more than 12 were injured in a stampede outside the Ashok Dham Temple in Bihar's Lakhisarai district Monday. The incident triggered chaos at the temple premises as a large number of devotees had gathered to offer prayers...

Kolkata: At least six people were killed and several others critically injured in a devastating fire at a five-storey hotel in Tarapith in Birbhum district of West Bengal Monday. The injured persons are currently under treatment at the nearby Rampurhat Government Medical College and Hospital....

Chennai: 'We The Leaders' founder and former Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President K. Annamalai Sunday alleged that some Ministers in the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK)-led state government had begun demanding commissions ranging from two to four per cent in government tenders. He, however,...

New Delhi: The National Testing Agency on Sunday announced re-test for three papers of the UGC-NET examination -- English, Commerce and Sociology -- following complaints about several errors in these papers. The English paper will be held September 9 from 9 am to 12 noon...