National

Erode: In a remarkable display of ecological harmony, residents of over a dozen villages surrounding the Vellode Bird Sanctuary in Erode district are celebrating a cracker-less Deepavali for the 20th consecutive year to ensure a peaceful breeding season for thousands of winged visitors. Spread across...

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress national joint secretary Derek O'Brien Saturday sought to play down the differences between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab, saying their rivalry in the state was natural but had no bearing on the broader opposition's fight against the...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Saturday attacked the Modi government over the rollout of E20 petrol, citing test results of samples collected by the Karnataka government, and asked the Centre to come clean on the actual ethanol content in fuel being sold across the...

Kolkata: Kolkata Police, effective from Saturday morning, issued a prohibitory order under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, barring the assembly of a certain number of people in a particular area around the residence of the Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member from...

Ghaziabad: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and dog squad on Saturday reached the Vasundhara police outpost, located under the jurisdiction of the Indirapuram police station in Ghaziabad and initiated an investigation into the cause of an explosion that took place on Friday night. Forensic...

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath, Saturday said that the resolve kindled on the banks of the sacred Saryu in 2017 has now given India's cultural heritage a new identity and elevated its prestige on the global stage. In a message marking the...

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested a Maoist carrying a bounty of Rs 10 lakh announced by the Jharkhand Police from the Thakurli area of Thane district, officials said Saturday. The operation was carried out after senior ATS officials received Intelligence inputs that...

Faridabad: A man was shot dead by his neighbour following an altercation over parking in Sector-21C of Haryana's Faridabad, officials said Saturday. The incident took place Friday, coinciding with the occasion of Dhanteras. The deceased has been identified as Paramjit Dhankar, who had returned from...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that an order of compulsory retirement is neither punitive nor stigmatic in character and does not cast any aspersion on the conduct of an employee, nor does it imply any finding of misconduct. A bench of Justices Manmohan...

Kolkata: Late-night clashes, allegedly between supporters of the BJP and Mamata All India Trinamool Congress (MAITC), broke out in phases on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday in front of the residence of the Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member from Diamond Harbour Constituency. According...