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New Delhi: The BJP Saturday released its first list of 29 candidates for the polls to the 70-member Delhi Assembly, fielding former MP Parvesh Verma from the New Delhi seat against ex-chief minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal. It has named another former MP Ramesh...

Kolkata: West Bengal minister Babul Supriyo and BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay entered into a verbal spat on Vidyasagar bridge across river Hooghly over alleged blowing of a car horn. While Supriyo claimed that the Tamluk MP used foul language against him, Gangopadhyay maintained that it...

Hyderabad: One person was killed and another suffered injuries in a blast at a factory in Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri district of Telangana Saturday. The condition of the injured person, who was undergoing treatment at a hospital, is stable, police said. According to preliminary information, the explosion took...

Bijapur: Three persons have been detained in connection with the murder of a 33-year-old journalist whose body was found in a septic tank on a local contractor's property in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, police said Saturday. Mukesh Chandrakar, a freelance journalist, went missing January 1, and...

New Delhi: The air quality in Delhi-NCR has deteriorated to the 'very poor' category, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) of the national capital recorded at 383 Saturday, according to the Central Pollution Control Board. This marks the second consecutive day that the city's air...

New Delhi: The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) is conducting a re-exam Saturday for candidates of the Bapu Pariksha Parisar centre, where irregularities were reported during the 70th Preliminary Examination. However, students and political parties have vowed to disrupt the exam today. Over 10,000 candidates...

New Delhi: The Maldives is a "very concrete" expression of India's neighbourhood first policy, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said, pledging New Delhi's support the Indian Ocean archipelago as its economy is reeling under some stress. In his opening remarks at the meeting with Maldivian...

New Delhi: The government has released the long-awaited draft of Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, which do not mention any penal action for violations. The draft rules have been issued after Parliament approved the Digital Data Protection Bill 2023 about 14 months back. "Draft of...

New Delhi: Rural poverty has declined significantly to 4.86 per cent in the fiscal ending March 2024 from 25.7 per cent in 2011-12 mainly driven by government support programmes, said a SBI research released Friday. Urban poverty too is estimated at 4.09 per cent, down...

New Delhi: The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is closely monitoring respiratory and seasonal influenza cases in the country, and is in touch with international agencies in the wake of the recent reports of an outbreak of the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China, official...