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New Delhi: Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to hear a plea filed by actor and comedian Rajpal Yadav and his wife challenging the Delhi High Court judgment upholding their conviction in multiple cheque dishonour cases, and granted them exemption from surrendering, subject to a deposit of...

Bengaluru: Food safety officials seized expired and mislabelled products worth Rs 1.38 crore and medicines worth around Rs 4 lakh from dark stores (retail warehouses) and storage facilities operated by online delivery platforms in Bengaluru, officials said Monday. The inspections were conducted by the Food...

New Delhi: As of 2021, none of India's villages had achieved multiple sustainable development goals (SDGs), including access to basic services, health insurance coverage and women's bank account ownership, research published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia journal shows. However, almost all the villages...

New Delhi: Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov Tuesday confirmed that the delivery of Russia's S-400 Triumf air defence systems to India in 2026 remains on the agenda of discussions between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during their upcoming meeting in New Delhi...

Kochi: Indian fisheries scientist Dr P. Krishnan has been elected chair of a global network of regional fisheries bodies at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), giving India a prominent role in international fisheries governance for the next two years. Krishnan, Director of the...

Vadodara: Prime Miniter Narendra Modi Tuesday said the government was working to reduce the burden of fees faced by the families of students preparing for competitive examinations by providing free online coaching. Speaking at the 'NaMo for Viksit Bharat' programme where he inaugurated or laid...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: "You can't keep it lingering like this," the Supreme Court Tuesday told the Odisha government, asking it to decide on the remission plea of Ravindra Pal alias Dara Singh, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Australian missionary Graham Stuart...

Hyderabad: Tension prevailed at former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR)’s farmhouse at Erravalli in Siddipet district Tuesday, as the Congress cadres staged a demonstration and tried to barge into the premises during a protest over derogatory and abusive remarks by the BRS MLCs...

New Delhi: The total area sown under kharif crops in the current season across the country is estimated at 1,086.31 lakh hectares as September 4 this year, compared with the corresponding figure of 1,104 lakh hectares in the same period last year, data released by...

Kolkata: A very old mortar shell was found embedded in the Damodar River bank in Sonamukhi of Bankura district which is estimated to be from World War-II. The police said Tuesday that the Indian Army was informed about the matter soon after its discovery. The...