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New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Delhi Police has arrested four radicalised men from Maharashtra, Odisha and Bihar who allegedly planned terror activities, carried out recce of sensitive locations to target them and attempted to recruit others through encrypted online platforms, officials said Saturday. An Improvised Explosive Device (IED)...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation tonight at 8.30 PM, a day after a bill to implement women's reservation in legislatures was defeated in the Lok Sabha. "The Prime Minister will address the nation at 8.30 PM (April 18)," an official...

New Delhi: A day after a united opposition defeated a Constitution amendment bill to tweak the women's quota law and increase the number of seats in legislatures through delimitation, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju Saturday accused the Congress of being anti-women, and said it will...

New Delhi: A central team, comprising officials from the Department of Industrial Safety and Boiler Inspectors, is likely to begin a probe into the deadly accident at the Vedanta power plant in Dabhra tehsil of Sakti district, Chhattisgarh, that led to the death of several...

New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Saturday accused the Centre of conspiring to change the federal structure of the country in the garb of women's reservation, asserting that the defeat of its bill in the Lok Sabha to amend the women's quota law was...

New Delhi: The proceedings in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha were adjourned sine die soon after the session began on Saturday, marking an end to the Parliament's Special Session. A day earlier, the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, was defeated in the Lok Sabha....

Srinagar: Tremors of an earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale with its epicentre in Badakhshan province in Afghanistan, were felt in Kashmir Valley Saturday. Disaster management officials said that an earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale occurred at 8.24 A.M. Saturday with the...

New Delhi: India Friday said that the Bangladesh government's request for extraditing former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is being examined as part of ongoing judicial and legal processes. Hasina, 78, has been living in India after she fled Dhaka following the collapse of her government...

New Delhi: The Congress Friday said the "nefarious attempt" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to link their "dangerous delimitation proposals" to women's reservation has been decisively defeated in the Lok Sabha, and asserted that it was a win for...

New Delhi: In a major setback to the government, a Constitution Amendment Bill to implement 33 per cent reservation for women in legislatures in 2029 and increase the number of Lok Sabha seats to 816 was defeated Friday, with the ruling dispensation asserting that the...