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Bijapur: Two Maoists were killed, and a cache of arms and ammunition was recovered following an encounter with security personnel in the Indravati river area of Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh, officials said Thursday. According to officials, the operation was launched after specific intelligence inputs about...

Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to depute one Central observer for each of the 294 Assembly constituencies to oversee the pre-poll nomination phase in West Bengal. Insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that all...

New Delhi: The European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will not see any exceptions despite the concluded India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA), but both sides have committed to technical discussions to find the best way forward, a senior German environment ministry official said. Jochen...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has surpassed the landmark figure of 100 million followers on Instagram, becoming the first serving world leader and politician to reach the milestone on the social media platform. Having joined Instagram in 2014, PM Modi has, over the past...

New Delhi: Union minister Piyush Goyal Wednesday launched a blistering attack on Rahul Gandhi, alleging that the Congress leader and his party are compromised and spreading falsehood to destabilise the country's progress at the behest of anti-India forces. Addressing a press conference at the BJP...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday directed electoral authorities in West Bengal to ensure the submission of pending verification documents by 5 p.m. February 26 to judicial officers overseeing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India...

New Delhi: The first meeting of the joint committee of Parliament set up to examine the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan (VBSA) Bill, which seeks to establish a single higher education regulator, will be held Thursday. According to the schedule shared with the members, the committee...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Wednesday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying it has been more than 24 hours since he challenged the PM to scrap the India-US interim trade deal and once again, he (Modi)has "quietly slipped off to Israel"....

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is slated to hear Thursday a suo motu case over the objectionable statements about the judiciary in NCERT textbooks. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi will hear the case titled 'In...

New Delhi: The Left parties Wednesday strongly opposed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Israel, alleging that the trip comes at a time when Israel is "waging a genocidal war in Gaza" and amounts to betrayal of the Palestinian cause. In a statement issued here,...