India

Murshidabad/Malda: Within 48 hours of a West Bengal government directive, district authorities have operationalised the state’s first “holding centres” for suspected illegal immigrants, primarily Bangladeshi nationals and members of the...

Mokama (Bihar): A video clip of armed Bihar Police personnel out on a raid being frisked by members of the family of an alleged gangster has gone viral, resulting in...

Ashoknagar (West Bengal): Can this oilfield in West Bengal help the country tide over the ongoing energy crisis? Commercial extraction of crude oil from Ashoknagar, about 48 km from Kolkata,...

New Delhi: A Delhi student, Vedant Shrivastava, who was called “Pakistani” online after flagging discrepancies in the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) new On‑Screen Marking (OSM) system, was vindicated...

New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued directives for airlines in the wake of World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to issue any clarification on its recent judgment that permitted authorities to euthanise rabid, incurably ill and demonstrably dangerous stray dogs in...

Gulmarg: A technical snag in the cable car service at Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir, left hundreds of tourists stranded in gondolas several feet above the ground on Monday. Rescue operations...

New Delhi: Amid the prolonged crisis in West Asia, the Central government is keeping a close watch on “3Fs”, Union Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday. “There is a need to...

Kolkata: After the arrest of Kolkata Police deputy commissioner Santanu Sinha Biswas, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is now probing the role of nearly 30 other police personnel of the city...

Jammu: A search operation aimed at locating suspected terrorists believed to be sheltering in the dense woods of Rajouri district entered its third consecutive day on Monday, officials said. The...