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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...

Kolkata: A team from West Bengal's West Midnapore conducted searches at the residence of the Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee early Saturday to trace his executive assistant Sumit Roy. A team from Salboni police station in West Midnapore, led by a Deputy Superintendent of...

New Delhi: Five personnel of the Indian Air Force were killed when a Russian-origin AN-32 transport aircraft crashed in Assam's Jorhat Saturday. The aircraft met with an accident during a routine sortie at around 10 am, the IAF said. "The Indian Air Force (IAF) deeply...