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Image: IANS New Delhi: Nearly eight lakh new piped gas consumers have joined the fold over the past month amid a drive by the govt and gas companies to push its use and reduce dependence on cooking gas cylinders, a top official said Sunday.“We have managed quite well, delivering around 50 lakh cylinders consistently, fully...

Image: PTI NEW DELHI: Two western disturbances in quick succession are likely to affect north-west India this week with peak activity on April 7-8, resulting in below normal to near normal day temperatures over the region and a wet spell, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday. Western disturbance (WD) is an extratropical cyclone, originating...

Image: PTI Kolkata: PM Modi cited Sunday the confinement of seven judicial officers on SIR duty in Malda district as proof of a collapsing law-and-order situation in Bengal, sharpening his attack on Trinamool Congress at a BJP election rally in Cooch Behar.“Citizens across the country were shocked at how judicial officers were held hostage in...

Image: IANS MUMBAI: The charred remains of Kandivli seafarer Dixit Solanki (32), who was killed in an alleged missile strike on his tanker off the Oman coast on March 1, were transported to Mumbai from Sharjah early on Sunday. The sailor counts among the first Indian victims of the West Asia conflict.His family has refused...

Image: PTI, ANI CHENNAI: For the first time in 35 years, AIADMK has not fielded any Brahmin candidate in the Tamil Nadu assembly polls, indicating the waning influence of the community that hasn’t found place this time in the lists of other major parties as well.Its ally, BJP, too has no Brahmin candidate in the...

Image: IANS BHOPAL: A 19-year-old married woman has received legal sanction to live “independently” with a man of her choice after she told Madhya Pradesh high court’s Gwalior bench that her husband – at 40, more than double her age – had been mistreating her and she didn’t want to return to her parents because...

Image: IANS NEW DELHI: Inspired by the thumb rule that “justice must not only be done, but must also be seen to be done”, CJI Surya Kant has constituted a nine-judge bench, including judges from all faiths, and a woman, to decide the validity of contentious socio-religious norms that denote the centuries-old tussle of women’s...

Vishal Uppal (R) during a practice session for Team India ahead of the 2026 BJK Cup Asia/Oceania Group 1 tie. (Instagram) NEW DELHI: When the Indian team steps up to the court on April 7 at the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association (DLTA) Complex to compete in the Billie Jean King Cup’s Asia/Oceania Group 1, they...

Image: IANS GUWAHATI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said he and his wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, will initiate legal proceedings against Congress leader Pawan Khera for alleging that she holds multiple foreign passports and undisclosed properties in Dubai.Khera, speaking at a press conference in New Delhi just days before Assam votes on...

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