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New Delhi: Chief Minister Rekha Gupta Sunday visited the building collapse site in South Delhi's Saket that claimed six lives, and assured strict action against unauthorised constructions and the officers responsible for it. The incident occurred on Saturday evening on Western Marg in the Saidulajab...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Odisha, Mizoram, Sikkim, and Manipur has started, the Election Commission said Sunday. The poll authority had launched phase 3 of SIR in 16 states and three Union territories May 14...

Kolkata: A day after he was attacked in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district by some people with stones and eggs, TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee Sunday said he was a victim of "state-sponsored terrorism". The TMC national general secretary was attacked Saturday when he went...

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education Sunday said vulnerabilities identified in the OnMark portal of its service provider have been contained, and efforts are underway to rule out any other exploitable weaknesses. "We have been closely monitoring the vulnerabilities in the OnMark portal...

Srinagar/Jammu: Pakistan is actively violating international telecommunication norms by deliberately beaming superfluous cellular signals across the border into Jammu and Kashmir aimed at providing a covert communication lifeline to terrorist groups operating in the Union territory, with a sharp focus on the Jammu region, officials...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that cases involving the trafficking of children for Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE) can attract charges under the stringent POCSO Act, alongside the relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act. A bench of...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday targeted the Centre over the CBSE OSM row, sharing a video of his interaction with a group of students and describing them as brave young Indians who asked the Modi government simple questions but received insults instead of...

New Delhi: Admiral Krishna Swaminathan Sunday assumed charge as India's new chief of the Naval Staff amid a fast evolving regional maritime security scenario. He succeeds Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi, who retired from service. Admiral Swaminathan was serving as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the...

Guwahati/Puri: Another accused in the alleged financial irregularities in Assam Fisheries Development Corporation Ltd has been apprehended in Odisha’s Puri, marking the ninth arrest in the case, officials said Sunday. They said Padma Kanta Hazarika was apprehended in Puri Saturday and will be brought to...

New Delhi: Congress Sunday flagged that the answer sheets of two million CBSE Class-XII students have been shown to be available in the public domain and said it is a "data breach of monumental proportions" which compromises the privacy of the students. Congress leader Jairam...