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New Delhi: Balakot air strike hero Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman has been promoted to the rank of Group Captain. According to an ANI report, the Vir Chakra winner’s promotion has been cleared by the IAF and he would be taking up his…

New Delhi: The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of WHO had recommended Emergency Use Listing (EUL) status for Bharat Biotech's Covaxin, the PTI reported. The WHO is in the process of evaluating Covaxin's clinical trial data for use of EUL.…

New Delhi: Pakistan has declined permission to Go First's Srinagar-Sharjah flight to use its air space. The direct air link between the valley and the UAE was revived after 11 years. This move will affect the people of Jammu and Kashmir…

New Delhi: In what can be called a knee jert reaction to the death of seemingly fit and healthy Kannada superstar Puneeth Rajkumar, 46, due to cardiac arrest on October 29, there is a sudden spike in the number of people queuing up for…

New Delhi: It turns out that spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is all for children bursting crackers during Diwali and against the ban on them. "Concern about air pollution is not a reason to prevent kids from experiencing the joy of…

Mumbai: Continuing his tirade against NCB officer Sameer Dawood Wankhede,  Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik told the media that the former resorted to extortions in Sara Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone…

Mumbai: Shah Rukh Khan's manager Pooja Dadlani had paid Rs 50 lakh to K P Gosavi, a witness in the drugs-on-cruise case, for the release of Aryan, Sam D’Souza claimed in a television interview. A businessman, D’Souza had found mention in…

Mumbai: Former Maharashtra Home minister Anil Deshmukh was on Tuesday remanded to Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody till November 6. Deshmukh, arrested by the ED during the early hours of Tuesday after a 12-hour-long interrogation, was…

Chandigarh: Captain Amarinder Singh, who was virtually forced to quit as Punjab chief minister by the Congress high command six weeks ago, formally resigned from the party on Monday. But he couldn’t quite dissociate himself fully from the…

Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee has won all four assembly seats — Dinhata, Khardaha, Santipur and Gosaba — in the byelections. TMC’s Sovandeb Chattopadhyay won the Khardaha assembly seat by a margin of 93,832 votes.…