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Kolkata: The toll in the Taratala warehouse collapse in south Kolkata rose to 11 Thursday as rescue teams, aided by the Army's advanced ground-penetrating radar (GPR) system, continued intensive search operations through the rubble for over 24 hours after the incident, officials said. Five more...

New Delhi: The government has revised the passport fee structure through an amendment to the Passports Rules, 1980, increasing application fee for an ordinary fresh passport containing 36 pages from Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,500. The new rules will come into force with effect from...

New Delhi: Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan administered the oath and secrecy to ten newly elected members of the Upper House Thursday. The newly elected MPs, who took the oath as Rajya Sabha members, included four from Andhra Pradesh -- three of whom...

New Delhi: Nearly five decades after the Emergency was declared in India, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has incorporated the subject into a Class IX Social Science textbook for the first time. The newly introduced textbook, 'Understanding Society: India and Beyond',...

New Delhi: US e-commerce giant Amazon Thursday announced to invest a total of $48 billion to expand and support its businesses in India from 2026-2030, as its CEO Andy Jassy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Jassy reiterated Amazon's long-term commitment to India and announced plans...

New Delhi: CBI has conducted searches at 80 locations in 16 states in connection with over 200 cases of digital arrest scams in which the accused used a fake website of the Supreme Court to deceive people, officials said Thursday. Around 60 teams of the...

Kolkata: The toll in the Taratala warehouse collapse in south Kolkata rose to 10 Thursday as rescue teams, aided by the Army's advanced ground-penetrating radar (GPR) system, continued intensive search operations through the rubble nearly 21 hours after the incident, officials said. Five more people...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Thursday allowed Hindi film actor Jacqueline Fernandez to withdraw her special leave petition challenging a Delhi High Court order refusing to quash the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) prosecution complaint and the trial court's decision framing charges against her in the Rs 200...

Kochi: Veena T, daughter of former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, appeared before the ED in Kochi  Thursday for the second time in a money laundering case linked to her now-defunct IT firm Exalogic Solutions Pvt Ltd and CMRL. Veena arrived at the ED office...

Kolkata: Five workers perished, and around 20 others were rescued and hospitalised after a three-storey under-construction warehouse collapsed in Kolkata's Taratala area Wednesday, prompting Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari to order a halt to all construction projects approved under the erstwhile TMC regime within the city's...