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New Delhi: More than 9,400 WhatsApp accounts linked to India and involved in the so-called 'digital arrest' scam have been banned since January 2026, Attorney General R. Venkataramani told the Supreme Court. The development came to light through a note submitted by the Attorney General...

New Delhi: India Tuesday strongly condemned a wave of terror attacks in Mali and condoled the death of the country's defence minister. Mali's defence minister Gen Sadio Camara was killed in a bomb explosion near the capital Bamako. "We extend our deepest condolences to the...

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Indian Overseas Bank Tuesday said it will settle a tribal man's claim to withdraw money from his deceased sister's account with a branch in Odisha's Keonjhar district on a priority basis as soon as a death certificate is issued by local authorities. The...

New Delhi: The Centre Tuesday said there is no proposal at present to increase retail fuel prices, seeking to calm concerns amid rising geopolitical tensions in West Asia that have impacted global energy markets. Addressing an inter-ministerial briefing, Sujata Sharma, Joint Secretary in the Ministry...

Gangtok: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday inaugurated six state-of-the-art indoor cricket academies across northeast India, which are part of the BCCI's expansion programme for cricketing infrastructure in the region. The academies are located in Rangpo (Sikkim), Doimukh (Arunachal Pradesh), Imphal (Manipur), Madankurklang (Meghalaya), Aizawl (Mizoram),...

New Delhi: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Tuesday announced that the new South Coastal Zone will come into existence and start functioning from June 1, 2026. Addressing a gathering after the Ground Breaking Ceremony of Google Cloud India AI Hub at Visakhapatnam, Vaishnaw said, "Gazette Notification...

Chennai/Bhubaneswar: A tragic accident at an ethanol manufacturing unit near Gummidipoondi in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district claimed the life of a migrant worker from Odisha and left four others in critical condition Tuesday after they were exposed to toxic gas inside a water tank, officials...

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has attached fresh assets worth Rs 3,034 crore as part of its ongoing money laundering probe against the Reliance Anil Ambani Group (RAAG) companies, sources said. The sources said the attached properties belong to Reliance Communications (RCOM) and Reliance Infrastructure...

New Delhi: India is expected to receive the fourth unit of the S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile system from Russia in the first part of next month that is expected to further enhance the IAF's air defence mechanism, sources in the security establishment said Tuesday. In...

New Delhi: Pointing to the disproportionate impact of the rise in heatwave frequency and intensity on the marginalised sections, the NHRC Tuesday asked 21 states and Delhi to take advance action to protect the vulnerable population. The elderly, children, infants and newborns are especially susceptible...