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Kolkata: A city-based businessman alleged receiving extortion threats demanding Rs 5 crore from persons claiming to be members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, prompting Kolkata Police to launch an investigation, a senior officer said Monday. The complaint was lodged at Bhawanipur police station after the...

New Delhi: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) Monday intensified its enforcement drive against food safety violations by suspending the licence of Matri Drinking Water in Tripura and issuing a prohibition order against Noble Healthcare, Mohali, Punjab, over serious violations of food...

Bengaluru: In the first expansion of the two-month old Karnataka Cabinet led by Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, 19 MLAs were sworn in as ministers Monday even as a Congress legislator resigned from his post over his exclusion from the ministry. Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot administered...

Patna: Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor Monday wrested the Bankipur assembly constituency of Bihar, a BJP bastion which the party had never lost since 1995, in a by-poll that was necessitated after its national president Nitin Nabin vacated the seat. He defeated his nearest...

New Delhi: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) Monday welcomed the Supreme Court's clarification on the withdrawal of FIRs against protesters, saying it expected the Centre and BJP/NDA-ruled states to immediately implement the assurances given to agitating students under the July 25 agreement. The Supreme Court clarified...

New Delhi: A video purportedly recorded at Jantar Mantar a day before the CJP's 'Sansad Chalo' protest march July 20 has surfaced online, showing senior Delhi Police officers asking the organisers to implement adequate crowd-management measures before the gathering swelled. The viral video captures an...

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Monday passed the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Amendment) Bill amid continuous sloganeering and protests by Opposition members, who demanded the presence of the Home Minister in the Upper House and raised issues related to the recent alleged police atrocity...

New Delhi: Representatives of social media platforms like Google, Meta, YouTube and top officials of the ministries of Home and MeitY Monday appeared before a parliamentary panel on the issue of social media regulation. The meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT, headed by...

New Delhi: Road Transport Ministry has proposed a regulatory framework for two-wheeled ambulances to support faster emergency response and improve access to emergency medical care in locations where conventional ambulances may face mobility constraints. At present, two-wheeled road ambulances are not regulated as a distinct...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday clarified that the expression "criminal antecedents" in its order on releasing student protesters referred only to those involved in grave and heinous offences, and said states could close or withdraw FIRs against the remaining students in accordance with law....