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Mumbai: Indian benchmark equity indices witnessed their sharpest single-day decline in more than three months Wednesday as escalating tensions in West Asia dampened investor sentiment and sparked a broad-based selloff across sectors. The Sensex plunged 1,677.12 points, or 2.15 per cent, to close at 76,503.60,...

New Delhi: As heavy rains lashed Delhi, an under-construction house collapsed in northwest Delhi's Rohini on Wednesday evening, prompting a swift response from the Delhi Fire Service, an official said. The Delhi Fire Service officer said that so far, two people have been removed from...

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Wednesday carried out coordinated searches across multiple states in connection with an online terror radicalisation case involving an alleged conspiracy to establish an Islamic state in India through violent jihad and anti-national activities inspired by the ideologies of...

Kolkata: TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee Wednesday accused the BJP of disrupting her party's protest march over the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Baruipur, alleging that the police had acted as an arm of the saffron party, instead of ensuring that the Calcutta...

Guwahati: Almost 83,000 hectares of land belonging to Assam are currently being occupied by Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram, the state Assembly was informed Wednesday. In a reply to a query by Congress MLA Rekibuddin Ahmed, Border Protection and Development Minister Atul Bora said...

New Delhi: Nearly seven in every 10 school-going children across the country missed school or routine activities because of extreme heat from May to June this year, according to a new report. The report, based on an assessment conducted by child rights NGO CRY, titled...

New Delhi: The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) Tuesday held a meeting of its parliamentary board to discuss strategy for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, with president Jayant Chaudhary saying the focus was on strengthening the NDA and taking the alliance government's work to the...

New Delhi: All but two textbooks for classes I to IX developed as per the new curriculum are now available, according to NCERT officials, who said the two pending ones will be released by next month. Part 2 of the class 9 social science and...

New Delhi: Google Wednesday unveiled the 2026 cohort of its Google for Startups Accelerator: India programme, selecting 20 AI-first startups from nearly 2,500 applications as it marks the 10th anniversary of its accelerator initiatives in the country. The new cohort reflects the rapid evolution of...

Jaipur: The Head of the Department (HoD) of Forensic Medicine at Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Medical College, Jaipur, Dr N.L. Disania died by suicide at his residence in the city's Khatipura area. He was a senior professor and one of the most respected faculty members...