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Chennai: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee called on her Tamil Nadu counterpart MK Stalin here on Wednesday evening. Nothing unusual, considering the fact that the Trinamool Congress supremo misses no chance to bring together a…

Bhubaneswar: India conducted a successful maiden flight-test of Phase-II Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) interceptor AD-1 missile with large kill altitude bracket from APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha on Wednesday. The…

New Delhi: Padma Bhushan recipient Ela Bhatt passed away on Wednesday at the age of 89. A noted women’s rights activist and lawyer, Ela was a well-known Gandhian who fought for economic empowerment of women, reported India Today. She…

Gandhinagar: The Morbi bridge collapse in Gujarat happened because God willed it that way, one of the arrested persons told a court on Wednesday. As many as 135 people, including around 50 children, were killed when the 140-year-old…

Adelaide: India got out of jail to beat Bangladesh by 5 runs via Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-hit T20 World Cup match at Adelaide on Wednesday. Indai’s third victory in 4 games in Super 12s Group 2 took them to the brink of…

New Delhi: Filmmaker and Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt's daughter Pooja Bhatt joined the Congress party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra' for a brief duration on Wednesday. In a video shared on Twitter, Bhatt is seen conversing with party leader…

New Delhi: Universities and higher education institutions will have to face punitive action if they fail to adhere to the University Grants Commission's (UGC) policies on fee refund and non-retention of original certificates as notified on…

New Delhi: In Uttar Pradesh’s Aminabad Inter College, Lucknow, A is no longer for apple but for Arjuna. With an aim of imparting historical and mythological knowledge from the English alphabet, the college has dedicated each alphabet to…

New Delhi: Such is the impact of the Ukraine war on India, that its paper imports have been hit to an extent that there is a two-month waiting period for overseas shipments. News agency IANS quoted industry sources as saying that there has…

New Delhi: Online shopping has becoming nothing short of a scourge, exposing us to the kind of consumerism we probably don't need but more than that making is vulnerable to scams. Festive season is the time we are most exposed to it. We…