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New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) plans to open 166 standalone Aaadhar enrolment and update centres across the country, an official statement said on Saturday. At present, 55 Aadhaar Seva Kendras (ASKs) out of…

New Delhi: Move over dowry and interfering inlaws. Indian couples have new reasons to file for divorce and mind you, they are serious, not flimsy. My husband is bald. My wife doesn't take bath daily. My husband loves me too much... Here…

New Delhi: Neeraj Chopra's historic gold at the Tokyo Olympics has triggered a javelin craze in the country. It has also given a fillip to the whole industry of sports, which includes the academies, coaches and manufacturers. For once, the…

Mumbai: The buzz that former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh may have escaped abroad as investigators were in the process of winding up the probe has now triggered political barbs being traded between Congress and the BJP. “When…

Bengaluru: Teams of doctors came forward to help a 31-year-old man get rid of a tumour weighing 8 kgs from the right side of his face. The treatment cost went up to Rs 72.73 lakh and most of it was crowdfunded. Manbodh Bagh from Odisha’s…

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: JSPL Foundation, the CSR arm of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd, has been awarded the coveted Mahatma Award 2021 for its multidimensional social interventions to support the community during the COVID pandemic in the…

New Delhi: The CBI on Friday carried out raids at 11 places across the country in connection with alleged fraud of Rs 56.89 crore of public money by the former chairman-cum-managing director and officials of Sundargarh-based PEC Ltd. The…

New Delhi: Popular comic book character ‘Chacha Chaudhary’ was on Friday named as mascot for the Union government’s ‘Namami Gange Programme’. The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), after a meeting of its executive council, announced…

The first onion special train was flagged off from Visakhapatnam on Friday. The train, which is carrying only onions, is an initiative of Waltair Division of East Coast Railway. The pilot project saw the onion special travel from…

In a brutal incident, a student attacked his female batchmate and fatally wounded her inside the premises of a government-aided college in Kerala’s Kottayam district. According to police, the accused – identified as Abhishek Baiju --…