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Malappuram: A vlogger was arrested in Bengaluru Saturday for allegedly raping a young woman he met on social media by deceiving her with false promise of marriage, police said. The accused has been identified as Junaid, a resident of Vazhikadavu, here, they added. According to...

New Delhi: A court here has allowed Delhi police to withdraw a 2019 case of sedition against former JNUSU vice president Shehla Rashid Shora for her tweets on the Army, police sources said. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Anuj Kumar Singh passed the order February 27 on...

New York: Multilateral financing agency International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that India will retain its position as the fastest-growing major economy by clocking a GDP growth of 6.5 per cent in 2025-26, on the back of robust private investment and macroeconomic stability. India's strong...

Nagarkurnool: In a breakthrough in the tunnel collapse rescue operation in Telangana that has been going on for a week, the whereabouts of four of the total eight persons trapped has been located, state Excise Minister Jupally Krishna Rao said Saturday. Krishna Rao, who attended...

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Saturday directed security forces to ensure free movement of people on all routes in Manipur from March 8 and also called for strict action against those creating obstructions. Chairing a meeting to review the security situation of Manipur,...

New Delhi: Delhi Forest and Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa Saturday announced a ban from April 1 on sale of fuel to vehicles older than 15 years and constituted a team to identify and restrict movement of overage, polluting vehicles in the city. Addressing media...

Dehradun: Fifty workers have been pulled out of snow brought in by an avalanche at a BRO camp in the high-altitude Mana village in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, but four of them died on Saturday as rescuers raced against time to save the remaining five labourers....

Sukma: Two Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district Saturday, police said. The gunfight took place in the morning in a forest under the Kistaram police station area, where a joint team of security personnel was out on an...

Kozhikode: A 15-year-old class 10 student from Kozhikode district who sustained severe head injuries after being attacked by fellow students following a dispute at a farewell party succumbed to his injuries Saturday. Muhammed Shahabas, a student at M J Higher Secondary School in Elettil, was...

Nagarkurnool: Rescue teams engaged in extricating the eight trapped workers under a partially collapsed tunnel of the SLBC here are cutting down a Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) to make way to reach the stranded persons, officials said Saturday The rescue efforts are in full swing...