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Mumbai: Aviation regulator DGCA has ordered IndiGo to cut its planned flights by 5 per cent on high-capacity routes during winter, as it looked to bring some order at India's biggest airline, which cancelled thousands of flights nationwide after failing to plan for tighter safety...

New Delhi: Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Tuesday assured the Lok Sabha during Question Hour that the government has expanded the ambit of the crop insurance scheme to cover losses caused not only by natural calamities but also by inundations and wild and stray...

New Delhi:  Birthday wishes poured in for former Congress president Sonia Gandhi as she turned 79 Tuesday, with the Congress saying her visionary leadership did not just guide the party but transformed India through landmark rights-based laws such as MGNREGA and the National Food Security...

Srinagar: A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday carried out searches in the forest area in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir as part of its probe into the November 10 blast near the Red Fort in Delhi, officials said. They said the...

New Delhi: Lok Sabha is set for a high-stakes debate on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and wider electoral reforms today, following a prolonged impasse that stalled proceedings. The breakthrough came after intense negotiations between the government and the Opposition, culminating in...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was felicitated at a meeting of all MPs of the ruling NDA Tuesday for the coalition's massive victory in the recent Bihar elections. Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and J P Nadda, who is also the BJP president,...

Mumbai: IndiGo cancelled around 180 flights from Bengaluru and Hyderabad Tuesday, as the disruption in the crisis-hit airline prolonged for the eighth consecutive day, sources said. "IndiGo is not operating 58 flights to and from Hyderabad Tuesday. Of these, 14 are arrivals and 44 departures,"...

Panaji/New Delhi: Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, the owners of the Goa nightclub wanted in connection with the fire tragedy that claimed 25 lives at the facility, have fled to Thailand, prompting police to seek the help of Interpol to trace them, officials said here Monday....

New Delhi: Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for raking up Jawaharlal Nehru's "mistakes", Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Monday called for a debate in the Lok Sabha on the "insults" and "complaints" against the country's first prime minister to "close the chapter" on...

Chandigarh: Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh’s namesake wife was Monday suspended from the primary membership of the party for the “Rs 500 crore CM” remark. His wife and Congress leader Navjot Kaur Sidhu claimed that it “costs Rs 500 crore to become Punjab CM”. She...