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Silchar/Shillong: The death toll in the coal mine blast in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district has climbed to 30, with two more persons succumbing to injuries at a hospital in Silchar, an official said Tuesday. Both were residents of Katigorah in Assam's Cachar district and...

New Delhi/Chennai/Bhubaneswar: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Tuesday criticised the Tamil Nadu government's response to the brutal attack on an Odisha migrant worker in Tiruttani, noting the delayed FIR and the victim's unexplained disappearance from the hospital without follow-up searches. The NHRC has issued...

New Delhi: Penguin Random House India (PRHI) has said it holds the exclusive publishing rights to former Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane's memoir titled Four Stars of Destiny, and clarified that the book has not yet been published, amid reports of unauthorised copies in...

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has given the green light to the Pakistan men's team to play archrivals India in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup in Colombo Friday. An official announcement of the U-turn by Pakistan will be made later Monday night. The...

Kolkata: The final electoral roll in West Bengal will not be published before February 21, while attempts are being made to release it by the end of this month, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal said Monday. The Supreme Court Monday extended the deadline...

New Delhi: Amid West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's apprehension of 'mass exclusion' of voters in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state, the Supreme Court Monday said it would not allow anyone to create an impediment in the exercise. A...

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the alleged banking and corporate fraud worth Rs 40,000 crore involving the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) and linked entities, official sources said Monday. The SIT is led by an additional...

New Delhi: India will grant quota-based duty concessions in the automobile sector, while access to alcoholic beverages has been offered under tariff reduction and minimum import price-based formulations under the trade pact with the US, the government said Monday. It also said that under the...

New Delhi: India's approach on crude oil purchases has been to maintain multiple sources of supply and diversify them to ensure stability in the energy flow, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said Monday amid a swirling controversy over Washington's claim that New Delhi has agreed to...

New Delhi: A comprehensive set of rail infrastructure projects has been approved aimed at eliminating congestion, enhancing line capacity, improving safety systems and enabling faster, more reliable passenger and freight movement across the country, the Railway Ministry said Monday. A press statement from the ministry...