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New Delhi: Indian Journalists Union (IJU) has condemned the extrajudicial surveillance on journalists, human rights activists and other regime critics and demanded a high-level inquiry into the Pegasus report either by a Joint Parliamentary Committee or any other agency...

New Delhi: India recorded 42,015 new cases of COVID-19 during the past 24 hours pushing the case tally to 3,12,16,337, while the death toll mounted to 4,18,480 with 3,998 more fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday.According to...

New Delhi: India recorded 30,093 new cases of COVID-19 during the past 24 hours pushing the case tally to 3,11,74,322, while the death toll mounted to 4,14,482 with 374 more fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday.According to...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, BJP ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and Prahlad Singh Patel, and political strategist Prashant Kishor were among the potential targets of surveillance through Pegasus, Israeli spyware, according to news website The Wire.The website is part of...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday ordered the release of Leichombam Erendro, a Manipur-based political activist arrested for sedition in May over some Facebook posts. The 37-year-old was held under the stringent National Security Act for saying "cow dung...

New Delhi: India recorded 38,164 new cases of COVID-19 during the past 24 hours pushing the case tally to 3,11,44,229, while the death toll mounted to 4,14,108 with 499 more fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday.According to...

Srinagar: Two Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) militants, including a top commander, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian on Monday.Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Vijay Kumar congratulated the forces for neutralizing the top commander Ishfaq Dar,...

New Delhi: The US has proposed to India, Japan and Australia that the first in-person Quad meeting of their leaders be held in late September in Washington.Citing diplomatic sources, Japan's Kyodo News said the face-to-face meeting, the first-ever since...

Chennai: Nine Iranians have been arrested for alleged illegal stay here and fake Aadhaar cards recovered from them, with the issue coming to light after the role of three in a robbery case involving a Somalian national emerged, police said.The...

New Delhi: With more cases of delta variant emerging in the region and a slow decline in the number of fresh cases, several states in the northeast have been forced to either announce fresh lockdown or crowd-control measures to...