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Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate Saturday raided several locations in poll-bound West Bengal as part of its money laundering investigation into an alleged PDS scam, officials said. Searches were underway at about nine premises of suppliers and exporters in Kolkata, Burdwan, and Habra, including Niranjan Chandra...

Mau (UP): Five people returning from a wedding in Jharkhand were killed when their SUV collided head-on with a trailer truck here, police said Saturday. Among the dead were three members of a family. The accident took place in the Doharighat police station area on...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to address election rallies in West Bengal Saturday, with public meetings scheduled in Kolkata and Serampore after an earlier setback when permissions for the events were initially denied. The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha's...

New Delhi: US Department of Commerce has announced preliminary anti-dumping duty on imports of solar cells and panels from India. "...consistent with our practice, we preliminarily assign the dumping margin alleged in the Petition, which is 123.04 per cent, to all other producers and exporters...

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Friday termed the resignation of seven of its Rajya Sabha MPs a "betrayal of Punjab", accusing the BJP of engineering the split, and using fear of central agencies to poach its leaders. The party said the people of Punjab...

New Delhi: Fourteen years after it emerged from the anti-corruption movement with a promise to redraw India's political map, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is facing one of its toughest setbacks, as seven of its members from Rajya Sabha ranks walked away in a rare,...

Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India Friday said it has cancelled the banking licence issued to Paytm Payments Bank. The licence was cancelled as the "affairs of the bank were conducted in a manner detrimental to the interest of the bank and its depositors", the RBI...

Nalbari (Assam): An assistant professor from Assam, Atanu Nath, is among the winners of the 'Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2026', often referred to as the 'Oscars of Science'. Nath shared the award with 376 scientists, including 11 from India, as part of an international...

Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann Friday dubbed AAP's Rajya Sabha members, who quit the party and announced joining the BJP, as "gaddars" (traitors). Addressing a press conference, Mann alleged that the BJP was trying to break the AAP and had "betrayed the people of...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday asked the appellate tribunals to give out-of-turn hearing to those who make out a case of urgent hearing against deletion from voter lists after the special intensive revision of rolls in West Bengal. At the start of the hearing,...