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Moscow: Chief of Army Staff General Dhiraj Seth has concluded his three-day official visit to Russia, during which he interacted with senior military leadership of the country and visited key military institutions, Indian military officials said Saturday. The visit, which concluded Friday, provided fresh impetus...

Ludhiana: Former Union Minister and BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu was detained by Punjab Police Saturday after he protested near the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) gate when Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s cavalcade was passing through the area. Bittu held up a bottle towards the Chief...

New Delhi: A fresh tranche of 11 tonnes of relief material, including medicines, forensic supplies, tents and sleeping bags, was dispatched Saturday aboard a military transport aircraft to Kathmandu, officials said. In a post on X, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar shared photos of the...

Kolkata: High drama continued ahead of the upcoming bypoll of the Rejinagar Assembly constituency in West Bengal's minority-dominated Murshidabad district, with Rabiul Alam Chowdhury, the candidate of the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the Trinamool Congress, withdrawing his earlier decision to pull out of the contest....

Kolkata: Congress's Nandigram by-election candidate Milan Pradhan, arrested for his alleged involvement in at least four cases related to rioting, murder and criminal intimidation that were filed during the 2007 anti-land acquisition movement, will be produced before a court Saturday, police said. The party would...

Agar Malwa (MP)/Bhubaneswar: Eight people, including seven members of a family from Odisha, died after their car fell into a drain in Madhya Pradesh's Agar Malwa district early Saturday, officials said. The eighth person was the car driver, who was a resident of Madhya Pradesh....

Kolkata: In another setback for the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the Trinamool Congress, its candidate for the Rejinagar Assembly bypoll in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, Rabiul Alam Chowdhury, withdrew his nomination Saturday, a day after the faction pulled out of the contest in Nandigram. The...

Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren did not appear in person before a special PMLA court in Ranchi Saturday in connection with a money laundering case linked to 8.86 acres of land in the Bargain area of the city. His counsel informed the court that...

New Delhi: The number of active NGOs registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act has halved in the last decade, even as funds received from abroad have gone up, with Christian associations accounting for nearly three-fourths of the total Rs 1841 crore in 2024-25. This...

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, C. Joseph Vijay, will launch the Thaimaman Gold Ring Scheme September 28, under which every child born in a government hospital will receive a one-gram gold ring. An official statement said the Chief Minister chaired a review meeting at the...