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Mumbai: The voting for Municipal Corporations across the state, which began at 7.30 am Thursday, was plagued by administrative mismanagement. The primary victim of this inefficiency was Forest Minister Ganesh Naik, who was forced to run from pillar to post for an hour before he...

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu Thursday extended warm greetings to the Indian Army on the occasion of Army Day, describing the day as a tribute to the courage, dedication and supreme sacrifice of soldiers who serve the nation with unwavering resolve. In her message, the...

New Delhi: Senior IPS officer Rakesh Aggarwal was Wednesday appointed as the director general of the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Aggarwal, a 1994 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre, is currently special director general in the anti-terror agency. He has also...

New Delhi: India Wednesday asked all its nationals residing in Iran to leave by available means and avoid any travel to the country as tensions mounted over possible military intervention by the US over Tehran's crackdown on nationwide protests that killed over 2,500 people. In...

New Delhi: Editors Guild of India Wednesday urged governments of India and Pakistan to lift restrictions on news websites and restore access to cross-border journalism. In a statement here, the Guild admitted that there have been instances of media in both countries crossing bounds of...

New Delhi: India Wednesday underlined the need to take positive steps to create the right environment for improving ties with China as Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri hosted Sun Haiyan, a senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), focusing on initiatives to rebuild the...

Jaipur: Six women were killed, while three were seriously injured in a head-on collision between a car and a truck on National Highway 52 in Rajasthan's Sikar district Wednesday, police said. The accident occurred in the evening near Harsawa village in Fatehpur sub-division when the...

New Delhi: As a part of road safety initiatives to prevent accidents caused by sudden cattle movement on National Highways, the NHAI, in collaboration with telecom companies, has launched a pilot initiative to deliver real-time safety alerts to motorists approaching stray cattle–prone zones. The initiative,...

Jaipur: Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi Wednesday said Operation Sindoor is still ongoing and every move of the enemy is being closely monitored. Speaking at the investiture ceremony at the South Western Command in Jaipur, he said the Army, Navy and Air Force jointly engaged...

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court Wednesday disposed of the TMC's petition praying for protection of its data, saying the ED has informed that it has not seized anything from I-PAC director Pratik Jain's office and home during its raids last week. TMC had moved the...