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Jammu: Two persons were arrested in J&K’s Poonch district Wednesday for allegedly raping a Class 7 student, officials said. Officials said that the Class 7 student was allegedly raped by a taxi driver and his friend in Poonch. “Both accused have been arrested and booked...

New Delhi: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal held discussions with Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce Suphajee Suthumpun Wednesday on ways to further strengthen trade and investment ties between the two countries. The two Ministers discussed ways to further strengthen the India-Thailand...

New Delhi: The first INNOPROM.India International Industrial Trade Fair is being held in New Delhi from September 9-11, where leading companies from Moscow's high-tech industrial sectors will showcase their products and solutions, the Russian Embassy here said Wednesday. The announcement about the mega Russian international...

New Delhi:  A Delhi court Wednesday sent the son of the building owner, the PG operator, and the labour contractor arrested in connection with the Satya Niketan building collapse to two days of police custody. Judicial Magistrate Kautuk Bharadwaj passed the order after the Delhi...

New Delhi: The eighth Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft carrying 35 tonnes of relief and rescue supplies took off for Kathmandu from New Delhi, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Wednesday as Nepal struggles to recover from the devastating flash floods of August 26...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to consider exempting Class 6 students from its three-language policy for this academic year. A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, while deferring the hearing on...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday remanded back to Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) a matter in which market regulator SEBI had imposed a penalty of Rs 5.25 crore on Cairn India, a part of Vedanta Limited, for making a misleading announcement regarding the buyback of...

Srinagar: Kashmiri Pandit employees, appointed under the Prime Minister's package and serving in the Valley, Wednesday set September 30 as the deadline for the authorities to provide them with the pending transit accommodation. The Kashmiri Pandit employees protested at the Press Colony here to demand...

Bengaluru: Karnataka will approach the Supreme Court challenging the orders issued by the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) and the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) directing the state to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water daily to Tamil Nadu, Water Resources Minister N. Cheluvarayaswamy said...

New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has initiated demolition of "dilapidated" buildings in various parts of the national capital, as part of a drive to identify unauthorised and unsafe structures, Mayor Pravesh Wahi said Wednesday. The move comes after a multi-storied building collapsed...