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New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Wednesday approved four multi-tracking railway projects across multiple states, including Odisha, with a total investment of Rs 9,450 crore, which will be completed by 2030-31. The projects include the Kharagpur-Bhadrak (Ranital) 4th...

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will hold a meeting with his Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Koizumi Thursday to further strengthen bilateral defence relations, enhance strategic trust and cooperation, promote stability and security in the Indo-Pacific region, and identify new areas of collaboration, according to a...

New Delhi: Observing that there is a need to institutionalise the reforms in NEET exams, the Supreme Court Wednesday directed the National Testing Agency to inform it about the steps taken to implement recommendations of the Radhakrishnan panel and the Nandan Nilekani committee. A bench...

Kolkata: After the fire incident at a hotel on Mirza Ghalib Street in central Kolkata, which claimed nine lives, the government has decided to conduct an audit of all the hotels and lodges in the same locality, the West Bengal Minister of State for Fire...

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday said he will discuss the situation in the region with visiting US Ambassador Sergio Gor, but ruled out raising internal issues with Washington's representative, saying only the central government can resolve those issues. "It is after...

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday embarked on an official visit to Singapore with a ministerial delegation to participate in the 4th India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable (ISMR). Sitharaman is leading a delegation comprising S Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs; Piyush Goyal, Minister for Commerce...

Ranchi: Amid a 25-day students' agitation over alleged irregularities in Jharkhand recruitment exams, the JMM-led government has cancelled 44 tests conducted by the state PSC and an outsourced agency since 2014. The government has also cancelled the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC) Combined Graduate Level...

Kolkata: At least nine people, including a four-year-old child, died and six were injured in an early Wednesday fire at a dingy five-storey building on Mirza Galib Street in central Kolkata that housed several hotels, police said. Five fire tenders were pressed into service to...

New Delhi: Former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain and ex-Delhi Jal Board CEO Udit Prakash Rai (IAS) are among six persons arrested by the Anti-Corruption Branch in connection with an alleged corruption case involving the tendering process for sewage treatment plant projects of the Delhi Jal...

New Delhi: After US President Donald Trump cited India's voter cards to make a case for the SAVE America Act, Election Commission officials Tuesday said that nearly 100 crore electors have been issued 'special' Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC). They underlined that polling in India...