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New Delhi: Bank unions Sunday deferred their three-day nationwide strike following assurance from the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) on their demands, including a five-day work week. The strike call beginning Monday was given by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), which coincides with half-yearly...

Phagwara: Students of Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Punjab’s Phagwara went on a rampage on campus early Sunday, damaging property and blocking a national highway following allegations that 'an outsider raped a female student' on the university premises. Police said a rape case has been...

Kathmandu: Twelve people, including climbers, went missing Sunday after an avalanche struck the Himlung Himal peak in Nepal’s Manang district, police said. The avalanche at the base camp of the 7,126 metre Himlung Himal peak in the Nar Phu area buried a tent where nine...

New Delhi: Delhi PWD Minister Parvesh Verma landed in a controversy Sunday after a video showing him allegedly slapping a man recording a road inspection in Tilak Nagar circulated on social media. AAP MLA from Tilak Nagar Jarnail Singh, who was present at the spot,...

New Delhi/Kabul: India Sunday delivered another consignment of life-saving medicines and medical consumables in Kabul as part of its ongoing humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan. "India’s humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan continues. Another consignment from India has reached Kabul, including life-saving medicines and medical...

New Delhi: Stepping up its attack on the Election Commission, the Congress Sunday said EC's proposed measures related to SIR are an admission that the exercise has been a "disaster" and asserted that the "piecemeal" steps for deleted or at risk voters will do little...

Islamabad/Karachi: Pakistani security forces killed 73 terrorists in operations across the restive Balochistan province over the past few days, the army said Sunday. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistani Army, said the intelligence-based operations were conducted over the past 96...

New Delhi: The BJP Sunday said that over one crore duplicate entries and 2.8 crore names of deceased voters were removed from electoral rolls across 31 states and UTs under the SIR exercise, which is "exposing the rot", and those who benefited from dirty rolls...

Ahmedabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Sunday cited a sharp decline in diesel consumption and a rapid expansion of railway electrification to highlight changes in Indian Railways since 2014. Speaking at a railway programme in Sabarmati, HM Shah said diesel consumption for railway operations had...

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government Sunday revoked a controversial order that exempted the state's Public (Law and Order) Department from the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, following intense pushback from political allies of the ruling TVK and transparency advocates. The administration...