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New Delhi: Petrol prices in Delhi would have risen to around Rs 125 per litre during the recent West Asian crisis without ethanol blending, the government said Friday, claiming the programme helped consumers save nearly Rs 30 per litre by cushioning the impact of the...

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Friday passed the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026, amid Opposition protests over the police crackdown on students during the July 20 Parliament march, with the legislation being cleared without a debate. The bill was taken up for consideration...

New Delhi: BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla Friday updated his X bio with no mention of the BJP in it, setting off speculation that he may have quit the party. There was no official confirmation to this, as Poonawalla could not be reached for comments...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to the Delhi Police on jailed former JNU student Umar Khalid's regular bail plea in the 2020 northeast Delhi riots "larger conspiracy" case and sought its response. A Division Bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and...

New Delhi:  Amid continuous sloganeering by Opposition members, the Rajya Sabha proceedings were cut short Friday and the House was adjourned till August 3. Congress President and Leader of Opposition in the Upper House, Mallikarjun Kharge, sought to raise a notice under Rule 267. Rajya...

Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam remained grim Friday, with more than 2.12 lakh people continuing to reel under the impact of inundation across eight districts, while the cumulative death toll due to this year's floods rose to 80, officials said. According to the Assam...

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha proceedings started Friday, the last working day of the second week of the Monsoon Session, amid ruckus and sloganeering by the Opposition. As the House began its proceedings, Opposition members started creating uproar, raising questions over police excesses during the...

Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and former MLA Peddi Sudarshan Reddy passed away at a private hospital Friday. He was 52 and is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter. He was admitted to hospital after suffering cardiac arrest July 26. The...

Thane: At least nine persons were killed after a four-storey building, which had been tagged as 'dangerous' by the local civic body, collapsed in Bhiwandi of Maharashtra's Thane district, and efforts are underway to rescue two to three others believed to be still trapped under...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said it had become necessary to bring comprehensive reforms to the education system to tackle the menace of paper leaks and asserted that there would be no mercy for those playing with the future of children. In a...