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New Delhi: Nominations for elections to 27 Rajya Sabha seats, including biennial and bye-elections, and to the State Legislative Councils in 3 states began Monday, with the ECI issuing a formal notification, an official said. In case of contested elections, the poll shall be held...

New Delhi: Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke Monday said he would return to India June 6 to launch a peaceful protest seeking the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over examination-related lapses. In a video released on Instagram, Dipke called on supporters and...

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday sent three accused, including a Latur-based doctor and a Pune coaching institute faculty member, to judicial custody till June 15 in connection with the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)....

Kolkata: A 70-foot-tall statue of Argentine football star Lionel Messi, which had become structurally unstable following recent storms, was removed from Lake Town Monday. According to Public Works Department (PWD) officials, the statue was dismantled from its pedestal and loaded onto a truck using a...

New Delhi: The free trade agreement between India and Oman came into force Monday, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said. The India-Oman Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) will benefit domestic exporters in sectors such as textiles, leather, plastics, marine products, automobiles, sports goods, and...

New Delhi: Congress Monday expressed concern over media reports that a fire broke out at a Ministry of Education office but later it was clarified that the blaze was at the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) building and not at the ministry premises. The...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Monday attacked the Modi government over the CBSE's re-evaluation process and cost, saying that when education is treated not as a service but as a business, errors are not corrected but multiplied. Gandhi shared a video snippet from his...

New Delhi: Five new judges were Monday appointed to the Supreme Court, which will now have 37 judges, one short of the upgraded sanctioned strength of 38. According to separate notifications issued by the department of justice in the Union law ministry on Monday morning,...

Kolkata: Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha member, has sought time to appear before the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in the signature-mismatch case. An insider of the party said that Banerjee has sent a letter to the CID seeking...

New Delhi: The Congress Monday expressed concern over the fire that broke out on the second floor of the Ministry of Education office in central Delhi, and said the development is very fishy. A fire broke out on the second floor of the Ministry of...