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New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor Thursday called for cricket matches between mid-December to mid-January to be scheduled in South India instead of the north, which experiences heavy fog during the period, so cricket lovers don't feel cheated. His remarks came a day after the...

New Delhi: In a tumultuous session marked by loud protests and sloganeering from Opposition benches, the Lok Sabha passed the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill, 2025 (VB-G RAM-G Bill) via voice vote Thursday. The legislation, which replaces the Mahatma...

Kolkata: Two senior IPS officers, including the state police chief, and a top government official submitted their responses to the West Bengal government Thursday regarding the show-cause notices issued over the mismanagement and vandalism during Argentina’s football icon Lionel Messi’s event at Salt Lake Stadium...

Dungarpur: An overnight sit-in protest was staged outside the Peeth police outpost in Dungarpur district of Rajasthan after a 16-year-old girl allegedly died by suicide following harassment by a youth in the Dhambola police station area. The protesters demanded action after the girl died after...

Mumbai: IndiGo Chief Executive Officer Pieter Elbers, Thursday said the airline's focus now is on three things: resilience, root-cause analysis, and rebuilding, after the domestic carrier inconvenienced and caused hardship to lakhs of passengers across airports by cancelling thousands of flights earlier this month. In...

Kochi: The Kerala High Court Thursday stayed the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) notices issued in connection with funds raised through Masala Bonds by the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), granting interim relief to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, former Finance Minister Thomas Isaac, KIIFB CEO K.M....

New Delhi: Union Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan is set to deliver the government's reply on the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill, 2025 (VB-G RAM-G Bill) Thursday. The Bill, which proposes replacing the longstanding Mahatma...

New Delhi: With photographs of Mahatma Gandhi in hand, several opposition MPs Thursday took out a protest march inside the Parliament House complex against the government's G RAM G bill and demanded its withdrawal. Behind a huge banner that had 'Mahatma Gandhi NREGA' written on...

New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) in the national capital issued a passenger advisory Thursday morning amid dense fog conditions, cautioning travellers that Low Visibility Procedures (LVP) had been implemented even as flight operations continued without major disruption. In a travel advisory issued...

Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI), from Thursday, will start sending notices for hearing on the claims and objections on the draft voters’ list in West Bengal, thus marking the end of the first stage of the three-part Special Intensive Exercise (SIR), which started...