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New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is preparing the template for winning the Assembly elections in Odisha, West Bengal and Telangana, said Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Speaking to media after conclusion…

New Delhi: For the third time this year, Narendra Modi has topped the global approval rating to emerge as the most popular among 13 world leaders, including US President Joe Biden, Germany’s Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron…

Bhubaneswar: A low pressure area likely to be formed over Bay of Bengal around November 9 may intensify into cyclonic storm on November 11. According to World Meteorological Organisation, a cyclonic circulation lay over southeast Bay of…

New Delhi: The Central government has placed an order for 1 crore doses of ZyCoV-D COVID-19 vaccine with Ahmedabad-based drug manufacturer Zydus Cadila. ZyCoV-D, which is India’s second indigenous vaccine against the coronavirus (after…

New Delhi: Two days after Diwali, visitors to the Taj Mahal in Agra were disappointed on Sunday, unable to see the marble mausoleum, which was shrouded in a thick blanket of smog. Agra’s AQI (air quality index) remained in ‘severe’…

Mumbai: Maharashtra Minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik on Sunday accused the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)’s Mumbai zone Director Sameer Wankhede of being part of a larger plot to kidnap Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan. Malik has levelled a…

New Delhi: The first ‘Ramayana Yatra’ train, one of several planned by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to promote religious tourism in the country, will leave from Safdarjung railway station here on Sunday.…

Rampur: A man lodged an FIR here against his wife and in-laws and accused them of celebrating Pakistan’s T20 World Cup victory over India on October 24, cops said. “An FIR has been registered after a case of making fun of the Indian…

Delhi: In a shocking video, a man was heard hurling abuses at the staff of a biriyani joint in Sant Nagar area here and forcing them to shut down the restaurant. As they do so, they are also threatened with fire; “It will catch fire...”…

New Delhi: One would have thought that with the mass awareness campaigns and the Supreme Court ban on bursting firecrackers, it would be a subdued Diwali this year. Going by the pollution and business generated, that is clearly not the…