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New Delhi: A 60-year-old man and his 33-year-old son died after two slabs of a building collapsed at Milan Garden in the Harsh Vihar area of Northeast Delhi, officials said Monday. The deceased have been identified as Chanderpal, 60, son of the late Nanak Chand,...

Visakhapatnam: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Monday issued a red alert for Andhra Pradesh and Odisha as a deep depression has intensified into the cyclonic storm in the Bay of Bengal. The IMD said in a bulletin Monday morning that a deep depression over the...

New Delhi: The BJP has announced a nationwide protest Monday against Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's "indecent and offensive" remarks targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kharge sparked a controversy Sunday with his "Modi ka baap bhi jayega" remark in response to an audience member's comment that...

New Delhi: Former Supreme Court judge Sanjay Kishan Kaul has criticised former Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud's approach to judicial appointments, alleging that he was "too deferential to the government". In his forthcoming memoir 'Without Fear or Favour', Justice Kaul, while recounting a...

Patna: A major uproar erupted at a Congress event in Bihar's capital Patna Sunday, when party President Mallikarjun Kharge lost his cool and made an objectionable remark on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, prompting fierce counter from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Kharge's controversial comment came...

Ramnagar: In a veiled attack on the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Sunday said programmes to inculcate nationalism among students should be held every year to keep them away from the influence of "vices like cockroaches". Adhikari said a three-day...

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla met Russia's State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin Sunday and held discussions on expanding parliamentary cooperation through sustained institutional engagement between the two parliamentary chambers, regular exchanges of parliamentary delegations, and greater interaction among young and women parliamentarians. During...

New Delhi: The usage of terrorism as an "instrument of statecraft" is simply unacceptable, and it can never be justified or rationalised, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Sunday and flagged that it continues because "not all states really display zero tolerance" to the menace....

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force’s calibrated strikes across the Western front during Operation Sindoor—spanning 1,200 km in breadth and 200 km in depth—demonstrated that no target is beyond its reach, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal AP Singh said Sunday, in an apparent...

New Delhi: Citing former Supreme Court judge Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul's yet-to-be-released memoir, the Congress Sunday flagged "serious questions" regarding the independence of the judiciary under the Modi government and asserted that the institution tasked with upholding the Constitution must remain free from the pressures...