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Patna: Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) Chief Nitish Kumar will take oath as a member of the Rajya Sabha Friday. Both Bihar Deputy Chief Ministers Vijay Kumar Sinha and Samrat Choudhary arrived in the national capital Thursday and are likely to attend the...

Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will Friday release the election manifesto of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal scheduled later this month. The BJP is describing the manifesto as the “Sankalp Patra”. HM Shah released a social...

Mumbai: A fire broke out at Terminal 1 of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai Thursday evening, and it was brought under control swiftly, officials said. The airport operations remained unaffected, and there were no casualties, they added. A short circuit caused the...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala crossed the voter turnout of 75 per cent by 5 pm, as polling continued in 140 assembly constituencies Thursday. The crucial elections will decide whether the ruling LDF will get a straight third term, or if the UDF makes a comeback, or if...

Kolkata: Ratna Debnath, mother of the raped-murdered RG Kar hospital doctor and the BJP candidate from Panihati, filed her nomination papers Thursday. She was accompanied by senior BJP leader and former Union minister Smriti Irani and district party leaders. Speaking to reporters after filing her...

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Chairman C. P. Radhakrishnan Thursday administered the oath to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Parth Pawar as a newly elected Member of Parliament (MP) from Maharashtra at Parliament House. Parth Pawar, 35, took the oath in English in the presence of...

Gangtok: The Army has so far rescued 135 stranded tourists from North Sikkim, where landslides have snapped road connectivity, officials said Thursday. Defence spokesman Lt Col Mahendra Rawat said that the Indian Army’s Trishakti Corps launched ‘Operation Him Setu’ to evacuate stranded tourists at Lachen...

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Thursday extended warm greetings to General Phan Van Giang on his appointment as the Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of Vietnam, stating that India looks forward to deepening longstanding defence ties. General Phan Van Giang was appointed as...

Guwahati: A voter turnout of 17.87 per cent was recorded in the first two hours of the assembly elections in Assam, where the BJP-led NDA is seeking a third consecutive term in power, while the Congress is striving to reclaim a state it lost a...

Guwahati: Voters turned out in large numbers across Assam Thursday to cast their ballots in the Assembly elections, expressing hope that the incoming government would prioritise development and growth in the state. The electoral contest in Assam is primarily between the Bharatiya Janata Party and...