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New Delhi: The government has notified the Semicon 2.0 scheme with an outlay of Rs 1.27 lakh crore to boost the chip manufacturing ecosystem in the country. The scheme has been divided into six segments covering designing of chips by Indian firms, setting up units...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday refused to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions for disclosure of the ethanol content in petrol and greater transparency regarding the compatibility of ethanol-blended fuel with vehicles. A Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Prasanna B. Varale...

Ranchi: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID), probing irregularities in Jharkhand's JPSC and JSSC recruitment examinations, has uncovered a massive scam involving a sophisticated racket that ranged from software-based result manipulation to removing answer scripts from highly secure strong rooms for rewriting. The revelations have come...

Kolkata: A fire broke out at a food stall on the busy Sealdah Station premises in Central Kolkata Monday, triggering massive panic among passengers. The fire was detected around 9.20 a.m. when the station premises, one of the two most important railway connecting points between...

Haldwani: An FIR has been registered against Rahul Gandhi, following a complaint by a member of the Valmiki community in Haldwani alleging that the Congress leader gave a casteist spin to a religious ritual held at the venue of the AICC chief's programme, police said...

New Delhi: A 16-year-old girl was gang-raped inside an empty sleeper bus by its driver and conductor in Greater Noida earlier this month, police said Monday, adding that both accused have been arrested in connection with the case. According to police, the incident took place...

New Delhi: A case involving the sexual assault of a three-year-old nursery student at a private school in Delhi's Bawana has come to light. Police have arrested a school bus driver in connection with the incident, officials said Monday. The accused, identified as Vikas, had...

Greater Noida: Four people were killed in a car-truck collision on the Yamuna Expressway in the Jewar police station area in Greater Noida of Uttar Pradesh, officials said Monday. According to the police, the accident occurred Sunday night when a truck travelling from Noida to...

Asheville: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrived in South Carolina Sunday (US local time) to attend a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors that will examine global growth, economic imbalances, sovereign debt and the consequences of the Iran conflict. Sitharaman was welcomed...

Chennai/Bhubaneswar: In a major breakthrough, the Tamil Nadu police have arrested the primary suspects, an Odia woman and her husband, behind the gruesome murder and dismemberment of a 38-year-old woman whose body parts were discovered inside a suitcase aboard a train earlier this month. The...