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New Delhi: The Winter Session of Parliament ended Friday with both Houses -- Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha -- witnessing a noisy but productive session, culminating in several significant decisions. The 18th Lok Sabha was adjourned sine die as the House assembled for the final...

Bijapur: An encounter broke out between security personnel and Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district Friday, a police official said. The exchange of fire started in the morning in the forested hills of Bhairamgarh-Indravati area when a District Reserve Guard team was out on an anti-Naxalite...

Guwahati: The Nagaon district administration of Assam has asked 15 people declared as foreigners by a tribunal to leave the state and India by Friday, according to an official order. The 15, including six women, came from Bangladesh and have been living in India illegally,...

 New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has conducted searches against an Uttar Pradesh-based YouTuber and 'online influencer' in a money laundering investigation linked to 'illegal' online betting, officials said Thursday. The federal probe agency raided nine premises, including that of Anurag Dwivedi, also an "online influencer",...

New Delhi: Twenty-six Indians working in the Russian armed forces have reportedly died, while seven have been marked as missing by the Russian side, the government told Parliament Thursday. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for External...

New Delhi: The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill, 2025 -- which was passed by the Lok Sabha Thursday -- repeals the MGNREGA and paves the way for a structural transformation of the government's role in the rural employment landscape. Passed...

New Delhi: Following the abandonment of the fourth T20I between India and South Africa due to excessive fog and poor visibility, Prem Manohar Gupta, the Secretary of the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA), said that the full ticket refund process will commence from Friday. Gupta...

Muscat: Oman Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik conferred 'The First Class of the Order of Oman' on Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday - an award that has previously been presented to Queen Elizabeth, Queen Maxim, Emperor Akihito, Nelson Mandela and King Abdullah of Jordan. This is...

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a Jammu and Kashmir resident, a close associate of suicide bomber Umar-un-Nabi, in connection with the Red Fort area blast, making it the ninth arrest in the case, officials said Thursday. Yasir Ahmad Dar allegedly played...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday allowed petitioners requesting more time for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Kerala and Uttar Pradesh to submit their representations to the Election Commission of India (ECI), which will decide on the requests by December 31....