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Kolkata: Former cricketer and Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP Kirti Azad Tuesday appeared before the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters in Kolkata for questioning in connection with an extortion case registered against him. Azad, a member of the Indian team that won the...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to entertain a fresh plea concerning allocation of Cauvery river water, saying it was a dispute between the states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and they are already contesting the matter. If we start entertaining petitions of societies...

New York: Secretary (West), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Sibi George, attended an event on the Franco-Mexican Initiative in New York and underscored the need to achieve comprehensive reforms of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The event was organised by the Foreign Ministers of...

New Delhi: The Monsoon session of Parliament is yet to end formally, 40 days after both Houses were adjourned, keeping speculations alive that the government wants to bring a key legislation without convening a fresh session. The two Houses remaining unprorogued for 40 days is...

New Delhi: Elections to 12 Rajya Sabha seats across Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal will be held October 16, the Election Commission announced Tuesday. The elections will cover 10 seats from Uttar Pradesh and one from Uttarakhand, where the terms of the sitting members...

Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court has held that doctors who pursue postgraduate medical education at government institutions at subsidised rates cannot evade the mandatory government service bond attached to their admission. A bench of Justice Shekhar B Saraf and Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary in Lucknow...

New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old girl was gang-raped by three men posing as cops at a park near Delhi's Kalkaji Mandir, officials have said. According to the officials, the girl and her friend went to Kalkaji Mandir at around 7pm Monday. After...

Mumbai: Students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have demanded changes in the institute's student welfare system and greater focus on mental health, citing concerns raised in the wake of the Sahil Wakode suic*de case. They also said that targeting one professor over...

New York: India and the four-member Visegrad group of Central European countries Monday agreed to step up political, economic and defence cooperation at their first foreign ministers' meeting, which External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar described as a "new historic occasion". The Visegrad Group (V4) is...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has struck gas in a deepwater well off the eastern coast, with the discovery’s proximity to Odisha potentially allowing faster development if appraisal confirms commercial viability, the state-run explorer said. ONGC made the discovery September 18 at...