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New Delhi: Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari Tuesday challenged critics of India's E20 petrol programme to identify a single vehicle that has suffered problems due to the use of 20 per cent ethanol-blended fuel, while dismissing claims of reduced fuel efficiency and...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that banks and the Indian Banks' Association (IBA) cannot include advocates in the banking sector's "Caution List" merely on allegations of professional negligence, holding that such action amounts to an impermissible assessment of a lawyer's professional competence, which...

Pune: A new twist has emerged in Pune's Lohagad Fort murder case, with sources claiming that the prime accused, Siya Goyal, had allegedly entered into a secret marriage with her boyfriend, Chetan Chaudhary, several months before her planned wedding to businessman Ketan Agarwal. According to...

Mumbai: Western Maharashtra is witnessing heavy to intermittent downpours, with rain wreaking absolute havoc across the Satara district, and the popular hill station of Mahabaleshwar there recording a whopping 513 mm of rain in a 24-hour window, which is one of the highest single-day rainfalls...

Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday filed the first charge sheet in the Reliance Commercial Finance Ltd (RCFL) case against seven accused, including two Reliance Group companies, for causing a loss of Rs 4,097 crore to public sector banks, according to a statement...

Thiruvananthapuram/Wayanad: At least five people were killed in a major mudslide at the Meppadi-Kalladi tunnel construction site in Kerala's Wayanad Tuesday, while three persons remained missing and seven others were undergoing treatment in hospital, as rescue teams pressed ahead with a massive search operation involving...

Jakarta: Emphasising the centuries-old civilisational ties between India and Indonesia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said that the relationship between the two countries is deeply rooted in the shared legacy of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Addressing the Indonesian Parliament Tuesday, PM Modi said, “India...

New Delhi: India's economy has become less dependent on monsoon rains, with expanding irrigation networks and changing cropping patterns over the last decade insulating agriculture and rural demand from the kind of shocks seen in earlier years, according to a report. Historically, deficient monsoons often...

Kolkata: Former West Bengal minister Aroop Biswas Tuesday appeared before the police for questioning in connection with the alleged mismanagement during Argentine footballer Lionel Messi's GOAT India Tour event held in Kolkata last year. Acting on a notice served by the police Saturday, Biswas reached...

Imphal: Massive joint operations by Central and state security forces continued for the second consecutive day Tuesday to track down the perpetrators behind the killing of two Assam Rifles personnel -- a Warrant Officer and a Havildar -- in an ambush in Manipur's Ukhrul district....