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New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Thursday said India needs to ramp up its bilateral relations for trade and investment, as the world is witnessing a churn, and bilateralism seems to be the new catalyst tool. Speaking at BS Manthan, the Finance Minister said these...

Chennai: The Greater Chennai Police have launched a crackdown on prominent bars and star hotels in the city following intelligence inputs indicating that some establishments were supplying cocaine to customers. A special team from the Chennai Police’s Anti-Narcotics Intelligence Unit (ANIU) has been constituted to...

Mumbai: NCP-SP Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule Thursday flagged an old letter written by the Swargate bus depot chief in Maharashtra's Pune to the police regarding the security situation of the depot. A woman was sexually assaulted on a bus at the depot. She also...

Hyderabad: Polling was underway for three seats of Telangana Legislative Council from teachers’ and graduates’ constituencies Thursday. Voting commenced at 8 a.m. in the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar graduates’ and teachers’ constituencies and the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda teachers’ constituency. The Election Commission officials said the polling was underway in a...

Mumbai: The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken serious note of the sexual assault on a 26-year-old woman inside the bus at Swargate bus depot in Pune and asked the state police chief to submit a detailed investigation report. The Commission's chairperson, Vijaya Rahatkar,...

Noida: Maha Kumbh, a significant festival in Indian culture and faith, attracts millions of devotees who seek spiritual purification by bathing in the holy Ganga. This time, its influence was also seen in a society in Greater Noida West, where residents experienced the essence of...

A heartwarming wedding took place at SKMCH Hospital in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, setting a remarkable example of love and devotion within a family. Grandson Abhishek Kumar tied the knot at the hospital's Shiva temple to fulfill the last wish of his ailing grandmother, who longed to...

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet has approved the amendments to the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, incorporating the changes recently recommended by the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), sources said Thursday. The Bill will now be tabled for discussion and passage in the second half of the budget...

Guwahati: An earthquake of magnitude five on the Richter scale jolted Assam's Morigaon district in the early hours of Thursday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) noted. The tremors were felt in Guwahati and other parts of the state. According to the quake monitoring agency,...

Imphal: A coordinating committee of the Kuki-Zo Community village volunteers Wednesday urged the Central government to take immediate steps to restore peace, security, and normalcy for the tribals and the state of Manipur as well and expressed willingness to lay down arms if their four-point...