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New Delhi: All Afghan nationals will henceforth only be provided e-visas to travel to India, Home Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.The decision was taken after reports of passports of several Afghan nationals being seized or lost. All...

Mumbai: Maharashtra Police on Tuesday afternoon arrested Union Minister Narayan Rane for his 'slap slur' against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray amid resistance from his supporters.A team of police personnel arrested Rane from the Angameshwar area in Ratnagiri district when...

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday stressed on becoming self-reliant in defence manufacturing, as he handed over to the Army the first batch of indigenously manufactured Multi-Mode Hand Grenades.The first batch of Multi-Mode Hand Grenades (MMHG), manufactured...

New Delhi: With a slight rise in daily infections from yesterday, India reported 25,467 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours while 354 succumbed due to the viral illness in the same duration, according to the Union...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday gave a name to India's evacuation process from Afghanistan, calling it ‘Operation Devi Shakti”.“Op Devi Shakti continues.“78 evacuees from Kabul arrive via Dushanbe,” he tweeted, referring to the 78 persons,...

Srinagar: Three unidentified militants were killed on Tuesday in an encounter with security forces in Sopore town of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir.A police official said that following specific information about the presence of militants, a joint Cordon...

New Delhi: As many as 25,072 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the country during the past 24 hours, the lowest in 160 days, while 389 succumbed in the same period, data from the Union Health Ministry...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed that the Ministry of External Affairs brief floor leaders of political parties on the developments in Afghanistan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday.He said that Prahlad Joshi, the Minister...

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated the country's first-ever smog tower in the National Capital on Monday.The over 20-meter-tall structure has been set up in the Connaught Place area to improve the air quality in a radius...

Srinagar: All the three Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants who were killed in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir district of Pulwama on Saturday were locals and involved in civilian killings and other atrocities, police said on Sunday.The arms...