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Varanasi: Fourteen people have been arrested on charges of defiling a place of worship and hurting religious feelings after a video purportedly showing them eating chicken biryani during an Iftar party hosted on a boat in the Ganga river here was widely shared on social...

Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress Tuesday released its list of candidates, containing 291 names, for the two-phase April elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly and set the scene for a "battle royale" in Bhabanipur constituency in south Kolkata, from where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will...

New Delhi: The government Tuesday said it has conducted 12,000 raids and seized more than 15,000 LPG cylinders to curb hoarding amid rumours of shortages and panic bookings, while maintaining that there is no supply shortage across the country. Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry's Joint...

New Delhi: Nearly 3 lakh metric tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is currently stranded at the Strait of Hormuz, Rajesh Kumar Sinha, Special Secretary in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, said Tuesday. During a key briefing, the senior government official said that...

Kolkata: The Election Commission Tuesday ordered the transfer of 19 senior police officers, including two ADGs, in another reshuffle ahead of the assembly elections in the state. IPS officer Rajesh Kumar Singh was appointed the new Additional Director General (ADG) of South Bengal, while K...

New Delhi: Over 200 prominent senior citizens, including former ambassadors, retired army officers, bureaucrats and senior advocates,Tuesday raised their voice against the alleged conduct and demeanour of Rahul Gandhi, the senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LOP), alleging that it weakens the...

New Delhi: The suspension of eight Opposition members of the Lok Sabha was revoked Tuesday after a proposal moved by Kiren Rijiju, the Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, following an expression of "regret" from the Congress leadership regarding the conduct of some MPs. The suspended...

New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has told Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju that an all-party meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, should be convened at the earliest to discuss the modalities and roadmap for the implementation of the Women's Reservation Act. Responding to...

New Delhi: V Senthil Balaji, the DMK MLA from Karur, appeared before the CBI Tuesday for questioning over a stampede during a political rally of TVK chief Vijay in the Tamil Nadu town last year, officials said. The CBI took over the case from an...

Kolkata: The roles of electoral officers at all levels will be under layer-wise surveillance on the polling days this time for the two-phase West Bengal Assembly elections scheduled next month. “The Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, in his press conference Sunday, had assured that elections...