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New Delhi: Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Khaleel arrived here Thursday on a three-day visit to explore ways to bolster bilateral ties in several key areas including maritime security, trade and investment. Khaleel's trip to India comes nearly three months after Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu visited...

New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Thursday said that the Indian government has worked assiduously to secure the release of its fishermen from Bangladesh custody who were arrested by the authorities from the neighbouring country over the past several months for inadvertently crossing...

New Delhi: In a video he recorded before committing suicide, a 40-year-old Delhi cafe owner has alleged he was ‘extremely tortured’ by his in-laws and wife, and accused them of not respecting court's orders in their divorce case. Puneet Khurana died by suicide by hanging...

New Delhi: US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is set to visit India early next week to take stock of the India-US Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET). The iCET represents a landmark initiative between the two countries in areas of emerging technologies such...

Sambhal: The court commissioner Thursday submitted to the Chandausi court a detailed survey report on Sambhal's Jama Masjid. The report, which includes videography from all angles, was compiled during the survey conducted November 19 and November 24. Court Commissioner Ramesh Singh Raghav, appointed as the...

Hyderabad: A protest broke out at a private engineering college in Medchal near here after some female students raised suspicions that their videos were being recorded from the hostel washroom, police said Thursday. Taking cognisance of the issue, Telangana State Commission for Women chairperson Nerella...

Srinagar: Dismissing suggestions that his National Conference was under pressure to join the BJP-led NDA, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday expressed optimism that the promises made by the Centre to restore statehood of Jammu and Kashmir will be fulfilled at the earliest. During his first...

New Delhi: India Thursday announced assistance of $500,000 to the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu to help it deal with destruction caused by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake last month. New Delhi conveyed to Vanuatu its readiness to extend all possible support to people of the...

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday accused the Border Security Force of letting infiltrators from Bangladesh enter India and charged the BSF with trying to destabilise the state. Banerjee said she could sense a "blueprint of the central government" behind this attitude of...

Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials, probing the multi-crore financial irregularities case at state-run R. G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata, have video-recorded statements of witnesses, who are colleagues of Sandip Ghosh, the former and controversial principal of the institution. Sources...