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Riyadh: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has met Saudi Arabia's senior leaders and discussed the bilateral relations, the regional situation and other areas of mutual interests. Doval, who reached Riyadh Sunday, was received at the airport by India's Ambassador Suhel Khan and Saudi Arabia's Deputy...

New Delhi: President Lee Jae Myung stressed the need for South Korea and India to work together to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in an interview published Monday, also highlighting the need for joint efforts to stabilise global supply chains. In an...

New Delhi: The CBI has arrested a deputy director general of civil aviation and the senior vice president of a major corporate group in a Rs 2.5 lakh bribery case to facilitate the import of drones for another private company, officials said Sunday. In an...

Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate Sunday arrested a Kolkata-based businessman after it conducted searches against him and Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas as part of a money laundering probe against an alleged criminal-linked syndicate in the poll-bound state, officials said. Kamdar, Managing Director of...

New Delhi: An Indian-flagged crude tanker safely transited the Strait of Hormuz even as two other vessels were forced to turn back after being fired at, prompting New Delhi to raise concerns with Iran over the safety of merchant shipping. Crude oil tanker Desh Garima,...

New Delhi: Left parties have written to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the nation Saturday violated the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) for elections and seeking action against him. CPI(M) General Secretary MA Baby and CPI Rajya...

Lucknow: Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, is likely to present Monday his stand in the Allahabad High Court on a petition filed by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker alleging that the Congress leader is a 'British national' enjoying dual...

Bankura: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday accused the Trinamool Congress of betraying women by preventing the passage of the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, in Parliament, and asserted that the women would punish the ruling party in West Bengal in the upcoming assembly polls. Addressing...

Virudhunagar: More than 10 workers were feared dead following a blast in a firecracker manufacturing unit near, and some others were severely injured, police said. The blast occurred when about 30 workers were engaged in routine manufacturing-related processes at the firecrackers unit at Kattanarpatti near...

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday claimed that it was deeply unfortunate that Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to mislead the nation over the women's quota bill. She also alleged that the central government was plotting to push through the delimitation exercise by...