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New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Sunday met President of Zanzibar Hussein Ali Mwinyi and discussed ways to expand bilateral cooperation in higher education, capacity building, water supply, health, and digital domains. Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous province of Tanzania. Mwinyi has been Zanzibar's President...

Kolkata: A single-judge special bench of Calcutta High Court, which conducted an urgent hearing Sunday afternoon on the petition filed by the Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee, challenging the demolition of his party office at Amtala in West Bengal's South...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Sunday refused to interfere with activist Sonam Wangchuk's treatment at Safdarjung Hospital here. Justice Mini Pushkarna said no interim order was required at this stage on a petition by Wangchuk's wife, Gitanjali J Angmo, seeking permission to shift him...

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is set to introduce the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026, in the Rajya Sabha Monday during the Monsoon Session of Parliament. The proposed legislation seeks to extend the same legal and statutory protection to...

New Delhi: National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued an advisory to NEET-UG 2026 candidates and their parents, warning them not to submit fake or AI-generated OMR sheets when raising complaints about score discrepancies. The warning comes after the NTA reviewed several complaints regarding differences between...

New Delhi: Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi Sunday said the Opposition has sought discussions during the upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament on the "theft" of donations at Ram Temple, ethanol blending, student issues and the situation in Manipur, at the all-party meeting convened by the government....

New Delhi: Facebook suffered a widespread outage Sunday, leaving users across several countries unable to access their accounts or use key features, according to outage-tracking platform Downdetector. Downdetector recorded a sharp rise in reports at around 10:39 a.m. ET, with complaints surging to 3,555 from...

New Delhi: Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding a probe into the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ayodhya Ram temple, saying lakhs of devotees who donated their hard-earned money with faith are feeling "betrayed by...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Sunday agreed to hear on an urgent basis a petition by activist Sonam Wangchuk's wife seeking permission to shift him from Safdarjung Hospital to a private facility. The petition by Gitanjali J Angmo is expected to be heard by...

New Delhi: The entire Opposition Sunday staged a symbolic walk out from the all-party meeting convened here ahead of Parliament's Monsoon Session to protest against the invitation extended to rebel TMC MPs. The Opposition also protested against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla's decisions on the...