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Kolkata: Former TMC Rajya Sabha MPs Sushmita Dev, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and Prakash Chik Baraik joined BJP in Kolkata Thursday. The three leaders were inducted into the party in the presence of state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya. Bhattacharya welcomed the former MPs by presenting them...

Jaipur: In a rare medical case, a woman in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district gave birth to quadruplets -- three daughters and a son, at the Hira Kunwar Ba Women's Hospital. The babies were delivered through a Caesarean section and are currently under intensive medical care as...

Lucknow: The ED searched 11 premises in Jhansi, Lucknow and other places in Uttar Pradesh and recovered incriminating documents and records of suspected benami properties linked to a former MLA allegedly involved in 60 criminal cases, an official said Thursday. The Directorate of Enforcement (ED),...

Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Thursday filed a chargesheet against former West Bengal Minister Sujit Bose and his son Samudra Bose in a special court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Kolkata in connection with the ongoing probe into the multi-crore municipal...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Tin roofs of a few thatched houses collapsed, while some concrete homes developed cracks after four tremors in less than two hours jolted parts of Maharashtra's Marathwada region in the early hours of Thursday, officials said. No casualties were reported in the tremors...

New Delhi: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has rejected criticism of ethanol-blended fuel, asserting that E20 petrol is scientifically tested, safe for vehicles and central to India's push for energy self-reliance, while alleging that a misinformation campaign had intensified after the...

Jammu: Chief of Army Staff General Dhiraj Seth Thursday visited forward areas in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district and reviewed the prevailing security situation, operational preparedness and combat readiness of troops in the region. The visit, his first to the forward areas in Poonch after...

Kolkata: A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court Thursday granted the Trinamool Congress faction, led by Mamata Banerjee, conditional and limited access to three party accounts that have been subjected to debit restrictions by the bank authorities, following directives from the police and later...

Hyderabad: In yet another incident of food poisoning in government-operated residential schools in Telangana, 26 students were taken ill at a tribal residential school in Nagarkurnool district Thursday. The students fell ill after breakfast at Chenchu Tribal Government Residential School in Mannanur Village of Amrabad...

Melbourne: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Australia's Governor-General, Sam Mostyn in Melbourne During the meeting, PM Modi expressed satisfaction with the outcomes of the third Australia-India Annual Summit held with his Australian counterpart, Anthony Albanese. "PM Narendra Modi held a meeting with the Governor-General of...