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New Delhi: The government has suspended an Air India employee following a security and immigration lapse that allowed three foreign nationals to board an international flight without completing mandatory departure immigration formalities, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said Tuesday. The incident, which occurred earlier...

Bhubaneswar: Twenty-four pilgrims, including seven women and some children, were injured, ten of them critically, when a bus carrying devotees from Hooghly in West Bengal rammed into another pilgrim bus on NH-16 near Dhamra Railway Overbridge in Bhadrak district early Sunday, police said. The accident...

New Delhi: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that the National Testing Agency (NTA) is being strengthened through a functional-vertical structure, the appointment of senior government officers and the creation of specialised professional positions as part of ongoing reforms. In an additional affidavit filed...

Kolkata: Former cricketer and Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP Kirti Azad Tuesday appeared before the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters in Kolkata for questioning in connection with an extortion case registered against him. Azad, a member of the Indian team that won the...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to entertain a fresh plea concerning allocation of Cauvery river water, saying it was a dispute between the states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and they are already contesting the matter. If we start entertaining petitions of societies...

New York: Secretary (West), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Sibi George, attended an event on the Franco-Mexican Initiative in New York and underscored the need to achieve comprehensive reforms of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The event was organised by the Foreign Ministers of...

New Delhi: The Monsoon session of Parliament is yet to end formally, 40 days after both Houses were adjourned, keeping speculations alive that the government wants to bring a key legislation without convening a fresh session. The two Houses remaining unprorogued for 40 days is...

New Delhi: Elections to 12 Rajya Sabha seats across Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal will be held October 16, the Election Commission announced Tuesday. The elections will cover 10 seats from Uttar Pradesh and one from Uttarakhand, where the terms of the sitting members...

Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court has held that doctors who pursue postgraduate medical education at government institutions at subsidised rates cannot evade the mandatory government service bond attached to their admission. A bench of Justice Shekhar B Saraf and Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary in Lucknow...

New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old girl was gang-raped by three men posing as cops at a park near Delhi's Kalkaji Mandir, officials have said. According to the officials, the girl and her friend went to Kalkaji Mandir at around 7pm Monday. After...