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Panaji, May 6: Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said the BJP did not want the complete disappearance of the Congress as there is need for an opposition. Speaking at Goa Fest 2022, the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural ...

Mumbai(PTI): The Bombay High Court on Thursday extended till June 13 the stay granted on the process (summons) issued to actor Salman Khan by a lower court in connection with the alleged misbehaviour with a journalist in 2019. A magistrate’s ...

Solapur (PTI): Union minister Ramdas Athawale on Thursday slammed MNS chief Raj Thackeray over his call for removal of loudspeakers from mosques, and said the MNS leader will not get any political benefit from his “hard stand” on the issue. ...

New Delhi, May 5: After sending missions to the Moon and Mars, ISRO is now readying a spacecraft to orbit Venus to study what lies below the surface of the hottest planet in the solar system and also unravel the mysteries ...

Mumbai, May 4: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers played Hanuman Chalisa on a loudspeaker near a mosque in Charkop area of Mumbai on Wednesday morning, a day after their party chief Raj Thackeray gave a call to recite the religious hymn ...

New Delhi(PTI): Hours after its Kalkaji MLA Atishi opposed the BJP’s demand for removal of loudspeakers from religious places in Delhi, the AAP on Tuesday came out with a clarification, saying it agrees “in principle” with the idea that loudspeakers ...

New Delhi (PTI): The Centre Wednesday asked eight eminent artistes, who were allotted government accommodations years ago but which were cancelled in 2014, to vacate the facilities by May 2, a move that comes a day after eviction proceedings were ...

Thanjavur, Apr 27 (PT) As many as 11 persons were electrocuted during a temple chariot procession in the district when it came into contact with a high tension transmission line, police said Wednesday. The deceased included children. The tragic incident ...

New Delhi: The Chief Justice of India on Tuesday said he will list the Hijab matter for hearing in two days. A petition was filed seeking urgent hearing in the matter challenging Karnataka High Court judgement banning hijab in colleges ...

Gorakhpur (UP) (PTI): Unidentified men killed a man, his wife and their 20-year-old daughter by slitting their throats with sharp-edged weapons here on Monday, police said. One of the accused has been arrested in connection with the incident, they said. The ...

Aurangabad, Apr 25: A businessman in Maharashtra’s Parli Vaijanath tied his electric scooter to a donkey with a rope and paraded it around the town as a mark of protest against its manufacture for not fixing the fault in the two-wheeler ...

Mumbai(PTI): The Mumbai Police have shifted independent MP Navneet Rana to the Byculla women’s jail here, while her MLA husband Ravi Rana was taken to Taloja jail in neighbouring Navi Mumbai amid tight security, an official said on Monday. The ...

New Delhi, Apr 22: A “propagandist” newspaper distributed on board the Bangalore-Chennai Shatabdi Express has snowballed into a controversy, drawing political reactions and prompting the IRCTC to initiate an enquiry in the matter. The IRCTC has admitted that the paper — ...

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), Apr 22 (PTI) Around 24 students of the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya at Behjam in Lakhimpur Kheri district were allegedly locked on the roof of the school by two teachers to pressure the district authorities into cancelling ...