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Sitamarhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday claimed that people were not voting for the RJD-helmed opposition in Bihar as they fear that if the INDIA bloc were voted to power, the regime would put a 'katta' (country-made firearm) at their heads. In contrast, the PM...

New Delhi: India and New Zealand have successfully concluded the fourth round of negotiations on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Auckland and Rotorua, an official statement said Saturday. It followed five days of constructive and forward-looking discussions between the two sides, according to Commerce...

Srinagar: Two terrorists were killed when alert troops of the Indian Army foiled an infiltration bid on the Line of Control (LoC) in Keran sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, Defence sources said Saturday. “Two terrorists have been neutralised in Operation Pimple in Keran...

New Delhi: Bangladesh's interim government chief Muhammad Yunus is not in control of the administration and Islamist factions linked to terrorist groups are allowed to spread a hardline ideology, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said. In a sharp attack on Yunis, Hasina, who has...

New Delhi: Two more accused persons have been sentenced to Simple Imprisonment (SI) in the Pakistan-linked Visakhapatnam Navy espionage case by a special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the agency said Friday. The NIA special court at Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) has sentenced Kalavalapalli...

New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Friday that India has upgraded its technical mission in Afghanistan to an embassy and New Delhi is looking at how to strengthen its functionality, responsibilities and increase its strength. While addressing a weekly media briefing in...

Kolkata: More than 2.72 crore enumeration forms have been distributed among the voters in the first four days of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in West Bengal. The exercise began in West Bengal Tuesday. However, sources in the...

Kolkata:  The office of Governor C.V. Ananda Bose is yet to give sanction to the chargesheet of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against Trinamool Congress legislator and former president of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE), Manik Bhattacharya, in the case related...

New Delhi: The Congress hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday after he attacked the party over the dropping of stanzas from Vande Mataram in 1937, saying Rabindranath Tagore himself had suggested that the first two stanzas of the song be adopted, and...

New Delhi: India Friday noted US President Donald Trump's comments about Pakistan testing nuclear weapons and said Islamabad's clandestine nuclear activities were centred around decades of smuggling and export control violations. Last week, Trump named Pakistan among the countries testing nuclear weapons. The US president...