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New Delhi: A SpiceJet passenger has accused an Air India Express pilot of assaulting him following a dispute over allegedly cutting the boarding queue at Indira Gandhi International Airport’s Terminal 1 in an incident that has triggered widespread attention on social media. The passenger, Ankit...

Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit West Bengal's Nadia district Saturday, where he will inaugurate national highway projects and address a public rally, amid heightened political tensions over the ongoing SIR exercise in the state. This would be Modi's first visit to...

Nagaon/ Guwahati: Seven elephants were killed and one injured after a herd was hit by the Sairang-New Delhi Rajdhani Express in Assam's Hojai district in the wee hours of Saturday, a forest official said. Five coaches and the train's engine were derailed in the incident,...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday said traditional medicine was yet to receive the place it truly deserved and asserted that it should win trust through science to expand its reach further. Addressing the WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine here, Modi said strengthening...

New Delhi: NHRC Friday said it has issued notice to all states and Union territories in the wake of six children testing HIV positive after blood transfusion at the Satna district hospital in Madhya Pradesh earlier this year. "Such incidents occurring in different parts of...

New Delhi: As many as 1.71 crore voters did not find their names in the draft electoral rolls of Tamil Nadu and Gujarat published Friday as part of the special intensive revision of the voters' list. The combined number of electors in the two states...

New Delhi: Assets of former Indian cricketers Yuvraj Singh and Robin Uthappa apart from that of ex TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty and actor Sonu Sood have been attached by the ED in an "illegal" betting app linked money laundering case estimated to be worth more...

New Delhi: Lok Sabha leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi Friday vowed to launch a nationwide stir against the Viksit Bharat, Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB- G RAM G) Bill, which he claimed was bulldozed through the Parliament without adequate scrutiny and...

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...