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New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha (LoP), Rahul Gandhi, Tuesday met an injured autorickshaw driver outside his residence while he was leaving for Bhopal. On seeing the injured autorickshaw driver on the way, the Congress MP stopped his convoy and came out...

Hyderabad: In a major crackdown, Hyderabad Police dismantled a pan-India cyber fraud syndicate with the arrest of 104 fraudsters across 16 states. At least 32 special teams carried out ‘Operation Octopus’ over a span of 10 days, Hyderabad Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar said Tuesday. Under...

New Delhi: "Corruption" massive backlog of cases, and lack of an adequate number of judges are among the "challenges" faced by the judicial system, according to the new social science NCERT textbook for Class VIII. The section "corruption in the judiciary" in the new book...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday permitted the Calcutta High Court chief justice to deploy civil judges and also requisition judicial officers from neighbouring Jharkhand and Odisha to deal with 80 lakh claims and objections in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in...

New Delhi: A Leh-bound SpiceJet aircraft returned to the national capital due to an engine issue Tuesday morning, according to a source. There were around 150 people on board the Boeing 737 aircraft that was operating the flight SG121, the source added. When contacted, a...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday congratulated Rob Jetten on assuming charge as prime minister of the Netherlands and said he was looking forward to working closely with him to add further momentum to the growing ties between the two countries. Jetten, the youngest...

New Delhi: Delhi Police has arrested Indian Youth Congress president Uday Bhanu Chib in connection with the shirtless protest staged by a group of IYC members at the AI Impact Summit here last week, officials said Tuesday. With this, the total number of arrests made...

Ranchi: All seven persons on board an air ambulance were killed after the aircraft crashed near Simaria in Jharkhand's Chatra district Monday evening while en route to Delhi from Ranchi, a top state government official said. The crash took place shortly after the aircraft operated...

Chandigarh: Haryana Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau has registered an FIR in the Rs 590-crore fraud involving Haryana government accounts at the Chandigarh branch of IDFC First Bank and AU Small Finance Bank, a government official said on Tuesday. The case has been filed against bank...

New Delhi: A medical charter aircraft with seven on board lost radar contact shortly after departing from Ranchi Airport Monday evening, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said.​ A crash was confirmed later.​ It was a Beechcraft King Air (BE9L) medical charter flight (operated...