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Washington: Anil Menon, a NASA astronaut of Indian descent, is set to embark on an eight-month mission to the International Space Station July 14 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Born in Minneapolis to Ukrainian and Indian immigrants, Menon is an emergency medicine physician and...

New Delhi: The BJP Thursday fielded Sushmita Dev, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy and Prakash Chik Baraik as its candidates for the July 24 Rajya Sabha bypolls in West Bengal, hours after the three former TMC MPs joined the party. The three leaders had recently resigned from...

New Delhi: Food safety regulator FSSAI Thursday said it has issued a notice to alcoholic beverage manufacturers over unauthorised use of added flavours and non-compliance with age-related claims. The notice has been issued for violating the provisions stipulated under the Food Safety and Standards (alcoholic...

Kolkata: Veteran actor Prosenjit Chatterjee Thursday met West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari at the state secretariat 'Nabanna' and asserted that there was "no discussion on politics" during the meeting. His visit, however, sparked fresh political buzz as it came days after Union Home Minister...

Hyderabad: Telangana High Court Thursday granted conditional bail to Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar's son, Bageerath, who was arrested in connection with a POCSO case registered against him. The High Court July 6 reserved its orders in the bail petition filed by Bageerath. The court...

Chandigarh: A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court Thursday, seeking restoration of Diljit Dosanjh-starrer film Satluj that was removed just days after its digital release on an OTT platform. The petition said the removal of the film, based on...

Kolkata: Former TMC Rajya Sabha MPs Sushmita Dev, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and Prakash Chik Baraik joined BJP in Kolkata Thursday. The three leaders were inducted into the party in the presence of state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya. Bhattacharya welcomed the former MPs by presenting them...

Jaipur: In a rare medical case, a woman in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district gave birth to quadruplets -- three daughters and a son, at the Hira Kunwar Ba Women's Hospital. The babies were delivered through a Caesarean section and are currently under intensive medical care as...

Lucknow: The ED searched 11 premises in Jhansi, Lucknow and other places in Uttar Pradesh and recovered incriminating documents and records of suspected benami properties linked to a former MLA allegedly involved in 60 criminal cases, an official said Thursday. The Directorate of Enforcement (ED),...

Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Thursday filed a chargesheet against former West Bengal Minister Sujit Bose and his son Samudra Bose in a special court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Kolkata in connection with the ongoing probe into the multi-crore municipal...