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New Delhi: Parliament Tuesday passed a bill that seeks to tighten regulations for delayed registration of births and deaths and makes it mandatory to get approval from a judicial magistrate (first class) for cases reported more than two years after the event. 'The Registration of...

Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam further improved Tuesday as the number of affected people dipped to 1.22 lakh in five districts, but the toll rose to 89 with two more deaths, an official bulletin said. According to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA)...

Thanjavur: Udhayanidhi Stalin, who was arrested Tuesday in the double-meaning insulting remark case, was released on station bail following questioning at Sengipatti near here, police sources said. Udhayanidhi was accorded a warm welcome by the DMK workers outside the police station. After he was arrested...

New Delhi: In a significant verdict, the Supreme Court Tuesday took serious note of a large number of vehicles plying without third-party insurance cover and directed the Centre to evolve a pilot project by which fuel for vehicles can be refused at petrol pumps until...

Kolkata: A day after the Calcutta High Court rejected the anticipatory bail of Sumit Roy, former aide to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, in the alleged Salboni government land fraud case, a CID team Tuesday reached his city residence with an arrest warrant to trace...

Jodhpur: The Rajasthan High Court has granted 20-day parole to self-styled "godman" Asaram, who is serving a life sentence in a 2013 case of sexually assaulting a minor, saying the state government failed to justify its decision to reject his parole application. A bench comprising...

New Delhi: India Tuesday said it has nothing to do with former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina's plan to hold a virtual interaction with the media in New Delhi this week. Hasina is set to hold her first media interaction Wednesday evening, two years after...

Ranchi: Amid the ongoing students agitation over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC), Chief Minister Hemant Soren Tuesday issued his first public response, saying that the state government is treating the...

New Delhi: India Tuesday slammed Pakistan for conducting the "so-called local elections" in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), terming the electoral exercise as a "complete farce", which cannot hide reality. Addressing a bi-weekly media briefing in New Delhi Tuesday, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal...

New Delhi: Indian economy is set to cross USD 5-trillion mark in FY29 as per the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the government has adopted a broad-based growth strategy to achieve the milestone, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday. As per...