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New Delhi/Rourkela: President Droupadi Murmu will be on a day-long visit to Odisha April 21, her office said in a statement Monday. She will inaugurate a Planetarium and Science Centre, and the Nirmal Munda Parivesh Path, at a public function in Rourkela, it said. Murmu...

Imphal: Normal life in several hill and valley districts of Manipur was affected Monday following two shutdowns called by different organisations to protest the killing of two children and a couple of civilians at separate places by suspected militants earlier this month, officials said. Educational...

New Delhi: Heatwave conditions are very likely to prevail over isolated pockets of northwest, central and the adjoining parts of east India for the next four to five days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Monday. It said isolated pockets of Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Punjab,...

New Delhi:  The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the Centre, the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a ban on the announcement of “irrational freebies” by political parties ahead of elections....

Jammu: The death toll in the Udhampur bus accident has risen to 21, confirmed Union Minister of State (MoS) Jitendra Singh Monday. In a post on X, Singh, who is also the Lok Sabha MP from Kathua-Udhampur seat, said, "21 casualties so far and 61...

New Delhi: Legal verification of the New Zealand-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has been completed, with both countries agreeing to its signing in New Delhi April 27 in the presence of a large contingent of representatives of businesses from the two countries, Trade and Investment...

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will undertake a three-day visit to Germany beginning Tuesday to finalise a bilateral defence industrial roadmap. The roadmap will provide for a framework for the two countries to initiate co-development and co-production of various military hardware, officials said. In...

New Delhi: A 34-year-old man was shot dead in the wee hours of Monday following a dispute over parking in Delhi's Preet Vihar, officials said. A heated argument broke out between the victims, Pankaj Nayyar, his brother, Paras, and Gaurav Sharma over the parking. During...

Bengaluru: The Enforcement Directorate Monday raided the premises of the two sons of Karnataka Congress MLA N A Haris and some others in a cryptocurrency-linked money laundering case, officials said. About a dozen premises in the city are being searched under the provisions of the...

Jammu: At least 15 people were killed and 20 others injured when a passenger bus rolled down a hill in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district  Monday, officials said. The accident took place when the bus was negotiating a blind curve near Kagort village in the...