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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to interfere with the Jharkhand High Court order granting bail to RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in a fodder scam case. A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and P B Varale asked the high court to expedite...

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has clarified that the third language (R3) will not be included as a Board examination subject in the Class X examination for the current batch of Class IX students. However, students will be required to successfully...

New Delhi: Wholesale price inflation shot up to 9.87 per cent in June, from 9.68 per cent in May, led by a sharp spike in prices of food and non-food items. The sharp rise in WPI inflation reflects the impact of the West Asia crisis,...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala will have another moment of pride Tuesday evening when NASA astronaut Dr Anil Menon, whose family traces its roots to Ottapalam in Palakkad district, blasts off to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft. The launch is scheduled for 8.17 p.m....

New Delhi: India Tuesday summoned the Iranian diplomats, including Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) Mohammad Javad Hosseini, following the latest attack on United Arab Emirates (UAE) merchant vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, which killed one Indian and injured several others. An Indian sailor was...

New Delhi: India has backed Palestine's bid for United Nations membership and reaffirmed its support for a two-state solution to the festering conflict between the Palestinian people and Israel. New Delhi's position on Palestine was apprised by Sripriya Ranganathan, a secretary at the external affairs...

Hyderabad: Mortal remains of three persons from Andhra Pradesh who were killed in a boat tragedy in Vietnam arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport’s cargo terminal Tuesday. Andhra Pradesh Minister Kondapalli Srinivas received the bodies and consoled the family members. Earlier, the bodies of Mudiam...

Jammu: A special NIA court has issued a non-bailable warrant against Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistan-based chief of the proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, in connection with a case pertaining to the ongoing probe into the Pahalgam terror attack. The order was passed by the Special Judge...

Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court, while upholding the death sentence of 38 Indian Mujahideen operatives in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts, has cited the "humongous" conspiracy, the intention to spread widespread terror and the large number of casualties as key reasons for affirming the punishment. A...

Abu Dhabi: Two United Arab Emirates (UAE) tankers were hit by two Iranian cruise missiles in the Strait of Hormuz in Omani territorial waters, leaving one Indian crew member dead and eight others injured, the Emirates News Agency reported Tuesday, citing the Ministry of Defense....