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New Delhi: Over 700 citizens, including former civil servants, academics, activists and journalists, have written to the Election Commission alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's national address April 18 violated the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) for elections and sought an inquiry as well as...

New Delhi: Twenty-six candidates have bagged a perfect 100 NTA score in the engineering entrance exam JEE-Main, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced Monday. Twenty-four candidates had achieved the feat in 2025. While over 13 lakh candidates had appeared in the first edition of the...

Hyderabad/Bhubaneswar: A three-year-old girl was mauled to death by a pack of stray dogs in Telangana’s Peddapalli district Monday. The child was identified as Divya Behera. Her parents are migrant labourers from Odisha and are employed in a brick kiln in Katnapalli village in Sultanabad...

New Delhi: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal Monday said that the first tranche of the India-US bilateral trade agreement has almost been finalised, and a team of his ministry officials is in Washington for the discussions. "We have almost finalised the free trade agreement,...

New Delhi: India and South Korea Monday pledged to nearly double their bilateral annual trade to USD 50 billion by 2030 and committed to upgrading their comprehensive economic partnership agreement within the next year, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi observed that both nations radiate a...

New Delhi: Delhi High Court judge Swarana Kanta Sharma Monday refused to recuse herself from hearing the liquor-policy case as she rejected the pleas of AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and others for her withdrawal. In the pronouncement that lasted for more than an hour, Justice...

New Delhi/Rourkela: President Droupadi Murmu will be on a day-long visit to Odisha April 21, her office said in a statement Monday. She will inaugurate a Planetarium and Science Centre, and the Nirmal Munda Parivesh Path, at a public function in Rourkela, it said. Murmu...

Imphal: Normal life in several hill and valley districts of Manipur was affected Monday following two shutdowns called by different organisations to protest the killing of two children and a couple of civilians at separate places by suspected militants earlier this month, officials said. Educational...

New Delhi: Heatwave conditions are very likely to prevail over isolated pockets of northwest, central and the adjoining parts of east India for the next four to five days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Monday. It said isolated pockets of Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Punjab,...

New Delhi:  The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the Centre, the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a ban on the announcement of “irrational freebies” by political parties ahead of elections....