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Kolkata: The Indian Coast Guard seized a Bangladeshi fishing trawler and detained 28 Bangladeshi fishermen for entering Indian waters in violation of maritime boundaries. The Indian Coast Guard transported the trawler and the fishermen to Fraserganj Fisheries Port in South 24 Parganas district Monday afternoon....

New Delhi: India and the US have not negotiated a chapter on digital trade in the interim trade pact, and it will be taken up as part of the bilateral trade agreement (BTA), an official said Monday. On February 7, the two countries issued a...

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has slapped a Rs 184-crore FEMA penalty against news portal NewsClick and its editor-in-chief, Prabir Purkayastha, official sources said Monday. The order specifies that the company that owns the portal, PPK NEWSCLICK Studio Private Limited, has been penalised for an...

Bengaluru/Bhubaneswar: The First Additional District and Sessions Court in Gangavati, in Karnataka's Koppal district, Monday sentenced three men to death in connection with the gang-rape of an Israeli tourist and an Indian woman, and the killing of a male tourist from Odisha. The incident took...

New Delhi: Twelve candidates have bagged the perfect 100 score in engineering entrance exam JEE-Main 2026, with the maximum of them hailing from Rajasthan, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced Monday. More than 13.04 lakh candidates had appeared for the first edition of the crucial...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday said a boy and a girl before marriage are 'total strangers' and they should be cautious while indulging in pre-marital physical relationships. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan, which was hearing the bail plea of...

New Delhi: The rate of unemployment in the country among persons aged 15 years and above rose slightly to 5 per cent in January this year from 4.8 per cent in December 2025, according to a government survey released Monday. The UR (unemployment rate) or...

New Delhi: A team of Indian officials will visit the US next week to finalise the legal text for an interim trade agreement, which is likely to be signed in March, Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal said Monday. The visit is likely to start February 23....

Jerusalem: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Israel on a two-day visit from February 25 to 26, sources said Monday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first broke news of Modi's visit while addressing the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations on Sunday....

New Delhi: In a significant development, the Supreme Court Monday agreed to examine a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of several provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023. The top court, however, refused to grant an interim stay on the...