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Mamata urges Centre to ensure J&K security; calls for stronger tourism, cultural ties
KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday asked the Centre to take appropriate and urgent steps for ensuring ...

Woman gets capital punishment for killing her three sons in UP’s Auraiyya
LUCKNOW: A district court in Auraiyya, central Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday awarded capital punishment to a woman named Priyanka for ...

Aadhaar saturation rate higher than 100 per cent in Bihar’s Seemanchal region
According to official figures, 1,27,000 applications for domicile certificates were submitted to authorities concerned in Kishanganj district between July 1 ...

CBI Nabs MCL CGM Akhilesh Verma On Bribery Charge
Bhubaneswar: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday afternoon detained Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) Chief General Manager Akhilesh Verma ...

Replacing Assamese as mother tongue will help us know the number of foreigners: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
Guwahati: A minority student leader in Assam stirred a hornet’s nest with remarks that Bengal-origin Muslims would list Bengali, and ...

Mortal remains of Flt Lt Rishi Raj Singh, who died in Jaguar crash, consigned to flames in Pali
The mortal remains of Flight Lieutenant Rishi Raj Singh, who died in a crash of a Jaguar fighter plane during ...

UP makes QR code stickers mandatory for eateries, steps up food safety drive ahead of Kanwar Yatra
LUCKNOW: With Kanwar Yatra all set to kick off on Friday with the advent of the holy month of Shravan, ...

Calcutta HC seeks answers from Odisha on detention of Bengali migrant workers
KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the West Bengal Chief Secretary to appoint a nodal officer to get ...

Sangareddy Special Deputy Collector, 2 others in ACB net
Hyderabad: Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday caught red-handed Raja Reddy, Special Deputy Collector (Land Acquisition), Satish, a Deputy Tahsildar ...

Two students stab school principal to death in Haryana after repeated warnings over haircut
CHANDIGARH: Two Class XII students allegedly stabbed the director-cum-principal of a private school at Bass village in Narnaund subdivision of ...