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New Delhi: The tricolour fluttered across Connaught Place, Palika Bazaar and Mandi House Friday as hundreds of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) supporters and student activists staged a series of flash protests, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar amid a massive police deployment....

New Delhi: Describing the alleged plot to carry out a mass shooting targeting a Hindu temple in Illinois as a matter of "deep concern" for New Delhi, India Friday called on the US to ensure the safety, security and well-being of Indian nationals in that...

Male: India has approved the rollover of a Rs 3,000-crore currency swap facility to the Maldives, the Indian High Commission in the island nation said Friday. The Government of India approved the Maldives' request for rollover of the INR 30 billion facility under the Framework...

Islamabad: The Foreign Office Friday condemned Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's remarks that any future terrorist act originating from Pakistan will draw an even "stronger response". "Pakistan rejects and condemns the Indian defence minister's provocative remarks...," Foreign Office spokesperson Sajjad Haider Khan said. Speaking at a...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday refused to pass an urgent order on a plea by a woman journalist seeking stay on the investigation in a case filed by a police officer alleging casteist remarks and public humiliation against him during a protest near...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: National Steering Committee Friday approved an investment of Rs 1,194.92 crore for ugrading Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) clusters across Odisha, Maharashtra, and Jammu and Kashmir under the Pradhan Mantri Skilling and Employability Transformation through Upgraded ITIs (PM-SETU) scheme. With the approval, the cumulative...

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir government Friday ordered an in-depth inquiry into alleged misconduct by senior IAS officer Kumar Rajeev Ranjan with a woman Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service officer earlier this week. The National Commission for Women (NCW) also took suo motu cognisance of the...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Friday issued show-cause notices to Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut and journalist Nikhil Wagle in criminal contempt proceedings over their public remarks concerning Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and the judiciary. A bench comprising the CJI...

Leh: Talks between the Union Home Ministry and Ladakh leaders ended without a breakthrough in Leh, with the two sides expressing differences over a draft proposal on constitutional safeguards and a legislature for the Union territory. The two sides will meet again in New Delhi...

New Delhi: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leader Abhijeet Dipke and AISA chief Neha Bora were preventively detained by Delhi Police here Friday while on their way to participate in the 'Lehra Do Tiranga' protests, with Dipke headed to Connaught Place and Bora to Mandi House....