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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday pulled up the Odisha government for not taking a decision on the remission plea of Ravindra Pal alias Dara Singh, who is serving life sentence for the murder of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two minor sons...

New Delhi: A Delhi court Wednesday sent former minister Satyendar Jain, ex-Delhi Jal Board CEO Udit Prakash Rai and three others in the alleged corruption case involving the tendering process for sewage treatment plant projects of the DJB to 14-day judicial custody. Special Judge Dig...

New Delhi: A Delhi court Wednesday reserved its order on an Anti-Corruption Branch's plea seeking 14-day judicial custody of former minister Satyendar Jain, ex-Delhi Jal Board CEO Udit Prakash Rai and three others in the alleged corruption case involving the tendering process for sewage treatment...

Kolkata: A court in West Bengal’s Krishnanagar issued an arrest warrant against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra in a case of controversial comments regarding the Indian Army Wednesday. It is alleged that Mahua did not appear in court despite being summoned several times in this...

New Delhi: The Centre Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that a retest is being conducted for three subjects, including Sociology, of the UGC-NET June 2026 examination following complaints of some errors in the questionnaires. Taking note of the submission of Solicitor General (SG) Tushar...

Mumbai: A case has been registered against director Indra Kumar and producer Ashok Thakeria for allegedly cheating a leading distribution company by claiming to sell the rights to the film Dhamaal. The FIR has been lodged by Vikas Baldevraj Sahni (53), owner of Andheri West-based...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Wednesday approved four multi-tracking railway projects across multiple states, including Odisha, with a total investment of Rs 9,450 crore, which will be completed by 2030-31. The projects include the Kharagpur-Bhadrak (Ranital) 4th...

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will hold a meeting with his Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Koizumi Thursday to further strengthen bilateral defence relations, enhance strategic trust and cooperation, promote stability and security in the Indo-Pacific region, and identify new areas of collaboration, according to a...

New Delhi: Observing that there is a need to institutionalise the reforms in NEET exams, the Supreme Court Wednesday directed the National Testing Agency to inform it about the steps taken to implement recommendations of the Radhakrishnan panel and the Nandan Nilekani committee. A bench...

Kolkata: After the fire incident at a hotel on Mirza Ghalib Street in central Kolkata, which claimed nine lives, the government has decided to conduct an audit of all the hotels and lodges in the same locality, the West Bengal Minister of State for Fire...