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Ayodhya: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged theft of donations at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya has given a clean chit to former Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust general secretary Champat Rai and former Trust member Anil Mishra. Both Rai and Mishra...

New Delhi: Elon Musk-owned X will have to follow the law of the land on the social media platform's new rule to make content takedown requests by any government public, a government official said Monday. Musk shared a new algorithm introduced on X, saying "any...

Ranchi: Amid the ongoing protest by job aspirants over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren Monday announced the cancellation of the JSSC-CGL exam and all job tests conducted by outsourced agency TDPL since 2014. The decision was taken at a marathon...

Brahmapur: Odisha Police has recovered gold and silver ornaments worth around Rs 50 lakh, which were looted from a jeweller in Chhattisgarh last month, officials said Monday. The recovered ornaments, comprising 300 grams of gold and 1.4 kg of silver, were found in the locked...

Tarapith (West Bengal): Eight people died in a fire at a hotel in West Bengal's Birbhum district early Monday, following which police detained one person for alleged lapses in the maintenance of the establishment's fire-fighting system, officials said. Of the 43 people who were in...

New Delhi: India should bring back a petrol variant with a lower ethanol blend to protect millions of older vehicles, according to a government adviser, marking one of the strongest calls yet from a senior official for greater consumer choice amid growing concerns over the...

New Delhi: After renewed issues surfaced over some examinations conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi held a high-level review meeting Monday over its functioning and directed it to conduct a comprehensive audit of all examination processes. The agency is...

New Delhi: BJP Monday appointed academic Deepak Mhaskey as its social media department head, replacing Amit Malviya who had been steering the party's social media outreach for 11 years. Malviya congratulated his successor, a chemistry professor from Chhattisgarh, as well as the party's newly appointed...

Jaipur: Panic gripped Amer in Jaipur Monday morning after a live bomb was discovered in a village field near the CRPF campus. A local woman spotted the suspicious object while passing through Thakrala ki Dhani in Ward No. 148 at around 10:30 a.m. She alerted...

Mumbai: A fire broke out in the basement of the seven-storey Income Tax Office building at Churchgate in south Mumbai Monday afternoon, prompting evacuation of several people using the staircase and specialised ladders, officials said. "An inquiry is going on with the police, Income Tax...