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Jaipur: Around 45 passengers were injured when a private bus rammed into two trucks, which had already collided with each other on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Rajasthan's Dausa district Thursday, police said. Nangal-Rajawatan DSP Charul Gupta said that a bus of devotees was going from...

New Delhi: Minimum temperatures are expected to be higher than normal in most parts of India in January, except in some areas of eastern, northwest, and west-central regions, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Wednesday. Maximum temperatures are also likely to be above normal for...

New Delhi: The Congress will launch its 'Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan Abhiyan' in all blocks, districts and states January 3. The campaign will culminate in a public rally at Mhow January 26. The campaign was to be launched December 27 but was suspended...

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday approved continuation of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana and Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme till 2025-26 with an overall outlay of Rs 69,515.71 crore from 2021-22 to 2025-26. The decision...

Lucknow: A 24-year-old man from Agra took his mother and four sisters to a hotel room here and allegedly killed them by slitting their throats and wrists on Wednesday, after which he recorded a video to say he did it because of "helplessness and despair"...

New Delhi: The year 2024 was the warmest on record in India since 1901, with the average minimum temperature settling 0.90 degrees Celsius above the long-period average. The annual mean land surface air temperature across India in 2024 was 0.65 degrees Celsius above the long-term...

New Delhi: The Indian Navy will commission two indigenously constructed frontline warships and a diesel-electric submarine January 15 that is expected to significantly enhance the force's overall combat prowess. All the three platforms -- guided-missile destroyer Surat, stealth frigate Nilgiri and submarine Vagsheer -- are...

New Delhi: India Wednesday declared 2025 as the year of defence reforms and that the aim will be to facilitate rolling out integrated theatre commands to bolster synergy among the three services and transform the military into a technologically advanced combat-ready force. The broader aim...

Mumbai: A special court here Wednesday sentenced eight Pakistani nationals to 20 years imprisonment in a 2015 case of seizure of more than 200 kg of drugs valued at nearly Rs 7 crore. Special judge for NDPS Act cases, Shashikant Bangar, convicted the eight persons...

New Delhi: BJP Wednesday asked AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal to learn "spirit of service" from the RSS leaving behind his "political moves" instead of writing to the organisation's chief Mohan Bhagwat to draw "media attention". The BJP's reaction came after Kejriwal wrote a letter to...