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Kolkata: The three sharpshooters who were arrested in Uttar Pradesh in the Chandranath Rath assassination case will be presented at a district court at Barasat in North 24 Parganas district Monday. The three were arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the West Bengal...

Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday appealed to citizens to conserve fuel, use public transport, revive work from home, avoid non-essential goods purchase and overseas vacations to save foreign exchange to combat the global crisis triggered by the ongoing war in West Asia. Addressing a...

Guwahati: Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya Sunday appointed BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma as the chief minister of Assam Sunday, paving the way for the NDA's third consecutive government in the state. After being unanimously elected leader of the BJP-led NDA's legislature party, Sarma, along with...

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the country's preparedness to deal with potential floods and heatwaves and directed a National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) study to find out how many states are following the guidelines for dealing with forest fires, heatwaves and floods,...

Port of Spain: India and Trinidad and Tobago have signed eight agreements in sectors including tourism, healthcare, infrastructure and Ayurveda during External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's two-day visit to the Caribbean nation, according to an official statement. Jaishankar, who visited the Caribbean nation on May...

Srinagar: The Blackberry Messenger (BBM) application has again surfaced on the terror network in Jammu and Kashmir, with the interrogation of a key Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist indicating the use of several applications, including some banned ones, to communicate with other members, officials said Sunday. An...

Chennai: TVK chief Vijay Sunday attempted to convert the oath-taking ceremony into a powerful oath-speech by going off-script and making hand gestures to signify his strength and power, but Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar intervened and asked him to confine to the official oath....

Bhubaneswar: BJD president Naveen Patnaik Sunday congratulated C Joseph Vijay on being sworn in as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Patnaik, a former five-time Chief Minister of Odisha, said he was hopeful that Tamil Nadu would reach new heights of development under Vijay's leadership....

New Delhi: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh wrote to Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav Sunday, claiming that the Great Nicobar Island development project would "destroy" the unique ecosystem there, and urging him to pause, reflect, and revisit the venture in its present design and detail. In his...

Kadapa: Prohibitory orders were clamped here following an agitation and stone pelting at Almas Pet junction over naming of a centre, police said Sunday. According to police, members of a community wanted the junction to be named after ruler of the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom, Tipu...