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New Delhi: The Joint Committee of Parliament examining the Bill that seeks to remove Prime Minister, Union Ministers and Chief Ministers detained for 30 straight days on serious charges decided Friday to put on hold the adoption of its draft report. The decision came after...

New Delhi: Congress Friday expressed solidarity with activist Sonam Wangchuk and other members of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protesting at Jantar Mantar here over alleged examination irregularities and reminded the government of its "Raj Dharma". Congress leader Pawan Khera met Wangchuk and other CJP...

Kolkata: Three persons, including two school children, were killed after a pool car they were travelling in was hit by a train in West Bengal's Murshidabad district Friday morning, an Eastern Railway official said. Three others, including the pool car driver, were injured in the...

Jind (Haryana): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday flagged off India's first hydrogen-powered train connecting Jind to Sonipat in Haryana from the railway station here. With this, India has joined a select group of countries that have operational hydrogen-powered trains and marks an important step towards...

New Delhi: Educator and climate activist Sonam Wangchuk Friday asserted that he would "stay alive till July 20 at any cost", even as his indefinite hunger strike entered its 20th day amid a warning from doctors that his prolonged fast has reached a critical stage....

New Delhi: Hindi film star Aamir Khan said his character in the film 3 Idiots was not based on Sonam Wangchuk, calling it a 'misconception' and expressed concern over the activist's hunger strike. Khan attended the Q&A session at the London Indian Film Festival, where...

Bhubaneswar: In a significant step towards strengthening railway infrastructure in Odisha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate seven redeveloped railway stations across the state through video conference Friday, official sources said Thursday. Balangir, Barpali, Paralakhemundi, Talcher, Kesin ga, Baripada and Bimalgarh stations are among 75...

New Delhi: Punjab's Aryan Gupta and Haryana's Panshul Bansal topped the NEET-UG for medical admissions as 11.21 lakh candidates qualified the entrance exam this year, the National Testing Agency announced on Thursday. Gupta and Bansal scored 715 each out of 720. Their score was 29...

New Delhi: The BJP Thursday slammed the Congress for accusing Home Minister Amit Shah of breaking Opposition parties, saying the "so-called" INDIA bloc is disintegrating on its own due to its "deeds and incompetence of its leadership". The BJP's response came after Congress general secretary...

New Delhi: In a significant step towards enhancing taxpayer services and promoting voluntary tax compliance, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has enabled the display of information relating to foreign assets and income received under the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) framework in the...