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Kolkata:  As many as 58 dissident TMC MLAs backed expelled legislator Ritabrata Banerjee as the leader of the legislature party and conveyed their decision to West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose Wednesday, a move that could redraw the opposition's power structure in the House. Sources...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday expressed grief over the loss of lives in the fire incident in Malviya Nagar here and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the next of kin of each of the deceased and Rs 50,000 for...

Kolkata: Expelled TMC MLA Ritabrata Banerjee and a group of dissident legislators met West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose Wednesday and submitted letters of support from 58 MLAs, sources said. The dissident camp also proposed a new leadership structure for the legislature party, with Banerjee...

New Delhi: India is engaged with the US on the Section 301 investigations over concerns related to forced labour and excess industrial capacity, the government said Wednesday. The country is also "parallelly" engaged with the US for finalisation of an interim trade agreement, a framework...

New Delhi: Eighteen people were killed, and several were injured Wednesday when a massive fire broke out in a restaurant in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar, officials said. Three people were rescued from the basement of the Lemon Green Restaurant, an official of the Delhi Fire...

New Delhi: Nearly 40,000 students have availed the verification and re-evaluation facility and completed the application process successfully without any issues till Wednesday morning, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) said. The board said payment gateways of State Bank of India (SBI), Canara Bank,...

New Delhi: Supreme Court has constituted a high-powered committee to conduct an independent review of the Centre's report on the definition and delineation of the Aravalli hill range and directed the panel to address what it described as "critical ambiguities" in the findings. The committee...

Mathura/Bhubaneswar: A startling case of sexual exploitation and blackmail under the guise of spirituality has emerged from the Govardhan area of Mathura, where police have arrested a man posing as a ‘sadhu’ who allegedly used online religious discourses and bhajan-kirtan sessions to target educated young...

Washington: US Trade Representative has proposed slapping 12.5 per cent additional duties on 54 countries, including India, for “failing to prohibit the import of goods produced with forced labour”. The action follows investigations launched against 60 countries over what the USTR described as their “failure”...

Patna: A coaching institute of educator Faisal Khan, popularly known as 'Khan Sir', was allegedly vandalised and pelted with stones in Patna, police said Wednesday. He also claimed that firing took place at the institution, but police could not confirm it. The incident took place...