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New Delhi: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk Sunday began a hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, joining the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protest demanding accountability over alleged irregularities in examinations and seeking the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Before sitting on the fast, Wangchuk, along...

Srinagar: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar Sunday arrived here on a three-day official visit to Jammu and Kashmir. During the visit, the CEC will undertake various programmes across the Valley, aimed at engaging with voters, electoral stakeholders and field-level election machinery besides reviewing electoral...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday highlighted several milestones achieved by the country to become self-reliant as he cited the maiden flight of the made-in-India C-295 aircraft and the successful test of the indigenous Long-Range Land-Attack Cruise Missile. In his monthly radio broadcast 'Mann...

Victoria (Seychelles): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday was conferred with the honorary 'Guardian of the Blue Horizon' title by Seychelles' President Patrick Herminie in Victoria, marking his 34th international honour from a foreign nation. PM Modi thanked Seychelles for the honour and dedicated it to...

Mumbai: Months after the firing at his Juhu home, filmmaker Rohit Shetty has reportedly received a threat from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, demanding Rs 20 crore as extortion money. The threat was allegedly made through an audio clip, in which the accused reportedly said that...

Pune: As the investigation into the alleged murder of Ketan Agarwal proceeds, police Sunday morning took the accused, the victim's fiancee Siya Goyal, to the Lohagad Fort near Pune, Maharashtra, to recreate the exact sequence of events that took place on the day of the...

Victoria: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Seychelles President Patrick Herminie held a meeting at State House in Seychelles Sunday. The two leaders are expected to review the full spectrum of bilateral cooperation and discuss regional and international issues of mutual interest. External Affairs Minister (EAM)...

Ayodhya (UP): Ayodhya Police Sunday conducted simultaneous raids at the residences of all eight people arrested in connection with embezzlement of donations at Ram temple, police sources said. Police teams, accompanied by local magistrates, carried out searches at the homes of the accused, including Lav...

Pune: Police on Sunday took Siya Goyal, an accused in the alleged murd*r of her fiance and Pune-based realtor Ketan Agarwal, to the Lohagad Fort for the reconstruction of the crime scene, an official said. According to the police, the exercise is aimed at recreating...

New Delhi: Congress, Trinamool Congress and CPI(M) attacked the Centre after former The Telegraph editor R Rajagopal said his passport renewal had been stalled following the deletion of his name from West Bengal's electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Opposition leaders said that...