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Dehradun/Pithoragarh: Girls outpaced boys in the Uttarakhand board examinations, the results of which were announced Saturday, as the state recorded an uptick in pass percentages of Class X as well as Class XII , officials said. Education minister Dhan Singh Rawat, releasing the results at...

New Delhi: AAP leader Sanjay Singh Saturday said that the party will write to the Rajya Sabha chairman to seek the disqualification of seven of its MPs, who quit the party a day ago, from the Upper House. The anti-defection law clearly states that any...

New Delhi: Former Army chief Gen Manoj Naravane has come out with two books since his unpublished memoir, Four Stars of Destiny, caused a controversy earlier this year and looking back, he said it was not warranted to unnecessarily quote and drag him into the...

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP National President Nitin Nabin are set to lead a packed schedule of rallies and roadshows across West Bengal Saturday, as the state’s election campaign intensifies ahead of the second phase of polling...

Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate Saturday raided several locations in poll-bound West Bengal as part of its money laundering investigation into an alleged PDS scam, officials said. Searches were underway at about nine premises of suppliers and exporters in Kolkata, Burdwan, and Habra, including Niranjan Chandra...

Mau (UP): Five people returning from a wedding in Jharkhand were killed when their SUV collided head-on with a trailer truck here, police said Saturday. Among the dead were three members of a family. The accident took place in the Doharighat police station area on...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to address election rallies in West Bengal Saturday, with public meetings scheduled in Kolkata and Serampore after an earlier setback when permissions for the events were initially denied. The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha's...

New Delhi: US Department of Commerce has announced preliminary anti-dumping duty on imports of solar cells and panels from India. "...consistent with our practice, we preliminarily assign the dumping margin alleged in the Petition, which is 123.04 per cent, to all other producers and exporters...

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Friday termed the resignation of seven of its Rajya Sabha MPs a "betrayal of Punjab", accusing the BJP of engineering the split, and using fear of central agencies to poach its leaders. The party said the people of Punjab...

New Delhi: Fourteen years after it emerged from the anti-corruption movement with a promise to redraw India's political map, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is facing one of its toughest setbacks, as seven of its members from Rajya Sabha ranks walked away in a rare,...