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New Delhi: Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan administered the oath and secrecy to ten newly elected members of the Upper House Thursday. The newly elected MPs, who took the oath as Rajya Sabha members, included four from Andhra Pradesh -- three of whom...

New Delhi: Nearly five decades after the Emergency was declared in India, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has incorporated the subject into a Class IX Social Science textbook for the first time. The newly introduced textbook, 'Understanding Society: India and Beyond',...

New Delhi: US e-commerce giant Amazon Thursday announced to invest a total of $48 billion to expand and support its businesses in India from 2026-2030, as its CEO Andy Jassy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Jassy reiterated Amazon's long-term commitment to India and announced plans...

New Delhi: CBI has conducted searches at 80 locations in 16 states in connection with over 200 cases of digital arrest scams in which the accused used a fake website of the Supreme Court to deceive people, officials said Thursday. Around 60 teams of the...

Kolkata: The toll in the Taratala warehouse collapse in south Kolkata rose to 10 Thursday as rescue teams, aided by the Army's advanced ground-penetrating radar (GPR) system, continued intensive search operations through the rubble nearly 21 hours after the incident, officials said. Five more people...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Thursday allowed Hindi film actor Jacqueline Fernandez to withdraw her special leave petition challenging a Delhi High Court order refusing to quash the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) prosecution complaint and the trial court's decision framing charges against her in the Rs 200...

Kochi: Veena T, daughter of former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, appeared before the ED in Kochi  Thursday for the second time in a money laundering case linked to her now-defunct IT firm Exalogic Solutions Pvt Ltd and CMRL. Veena arrived at the ED office...

Kolkata: Five workers perished, and around 20 others were rescued and hospitalised after a three-storey under-construction warehouse collapsed in Kolkata's Taratala area Wednesday, prompting Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari to order a halt to all construction projects approved under the erstwhile TMC regime within the city's...

New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has integrated the General Trade Licence (GTL) system with its property tax portal, ending months of uncertainty among traders over the rollout of the new licensing mechanism, officials said Wednesday. Under the system, operational from June 23, traders...

New Delhi: The government Wednesday held a high-level inter-ministerial consultation on the draft convergence framework under the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025, ahead of the law coming into effect from July 1. The consultation, chaired by Rural Development...