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New Delhi: A massive fire which broke out in a multi-storey building in Delhi's Tughlakabad area June 12, claiming three lives, was a deliberate act to avenge personal enmity, police said Sunday, adding that three accused have been apprehended in connection with the incident. The...

Kolkata: A former minister in the erstwhile Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal, Manas Bhunia, Saturday resigned from the Trinamool Congress, adding to the ever-growing crisis in the embattled party following its electoral drubbing in the assembly polls. Bhunia told PTI that he sent a...

Amritsar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have to choose whether students are more important to him or an "incompetent" and "failed" minister, Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke said Saturday at a protest in Amritsar as part of its nationwide campaign seeking Education Minister Dharmendra...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Saturday stressed the need for unity in the INDIA bloc and claimed that they did not lose the 2024 Lok Sabha election and have already won the 2029 polls. Sharing his speech delivered at a meeting of the INDIA...

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Saturday chaired a meeting of Home Ministry officials to ensure proper facilitation of the high-level committee on demographic change, officials said. The committee, headed by Justice Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar, will study demographic changes, especially in border areas. It...

Kolkata: Two separate complaints were filed Saturday against the Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party's Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, at two different police stations in two different districts of West Bengal over two separate allegations. The first police complaint has been filed at...

Nagpur: Amid intense political heat ahead of the upcoming Legislative Council elections in Maharashtra, speculation has surfaced regarding the potential merger of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar), or NCP (SP), with the Indian National Congress. Addressing these rumours, senior NCP (SP) Working President and...

New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Saturday stated that the country will receive below normal rainfall this year, and though the monsoon has so far covered most of the Southern Peninsula, north east and parts of east India, it will progress slowly in other...

New Delhi: Lieutenant General Dhiraj Seth has been appointed as the next Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), the government said in a statement Saturday. Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth, presently serving as the Vice Chief of the Army Staff, will assume charge as the next...

New Delhi: The protests and the subsequent atrocities being committed do not seem to have died down in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), and although the authorities have made an offer for talks, the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) has not accepted it as they feel it...