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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday spoke to the mayor and district magistrate of Varanasi, and took stock of the flood-related situation in the city. Modi, who is the Lok Sabha MP from Varanasi, was briefed on the relief measures being undertaken in the...

Guwahati: At least two Assam Police personnel were killed, and two others sustained injuries after a colleague allegedly opened fire with an AK-47 rifle at a police outpost in Assam’s Kamrup district, officials said Thursday. The incident took place late Wednesday night at the Gamerimura...

Dehradun: Following the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Uttarakhand, the state Waqf Board is preparing a new and detailed Nikahnama for the Muslim community, aimed at ensuring that marriages are conducted in accordance with the provisions of the new law. Speaking to...

New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought specific, point-wise Action Taken Reports (ATRs) from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB), and Delhi Police over allegations that paid advertisements on Instagram promoted Child Sexual...

New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Rajya Sabha Leader of House J P Nadda over the purification that took place after his rally in Haldwani last month, asking him to direct Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to ensure that an FIR...

Kolkata: West Bengal Police Thursday said the absconding former chief of Panihati Municipality in North 24 Parganas district, Somnath Dey, the third co-accused in the conspiracy of the hurried cremation of the R.G. Kar rape-murder victim's body in August 2024, was arrested in Bengaluru, Karnataka....

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress general secretary and Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee Thursday accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists of ransacking his party office on Camac Street in central Kolkata. He released a video on his X handle, alleging the ransacking of his party...

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha Thursday accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Punjab government of deliberately marking his voter identification record in Mohali as “permanently shifted” in the draft electoral rolls prepared under the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR), alleging that the...

New Delhi: Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever arrived in New Delhi Thursday for his three-day visit to India. This will be PM De Wever's first visit to India after assuming office in February last year. Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken is also part of...

New Delhi: India Wednesday severely condemned the reported demolition of a century-old Hindu temple in Pakistan and called upon the country's government to conduct a "prompt and transparent investigation" into yet another shocking incident involving the destruction of a place of worship for minority communities...