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Kolkata, Jun 4: A day after a student alleged he was “stripped naked” and “filmed” inside a room at a reputed college here, West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee said on Sunday “strict action” will be taken against anyone found involved in the act. The video clip of the incident, which went viral on social media, showed the student pleading for mercy at St Paul’s Cathedral College even

Sydney, Jun 4: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Monday castigated India for taxing international tickets, as it asked governments to facilitate the growth of worldwide connectivity by avoiding creeping re-regulation, maintaining the integrity of global standards and addressing a capacity crisis. “We must take governments to task. It is unacceptable that global standards are

Patna, June 4: The JD(U) core committee met here on Sunday ahead of a meeting of the National Democratic Alliance scheduled later this week, after which a senior party leader said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is the face of the NDA in Bihar. Kumar, also the JD(U) national president, held the core committee meeting at his residence. JD(U) national general secretaries KC Tyagi and Pavan Varma, who

Mumbai, Jun 4: In one of the sharpest attacks after the recently held Lok Sabha by-poll in Palghar, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday described BJP as its biggest "political enemy". The country "does not" want the duo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah, but could "accept" the Congress or JD(S) leader H D Deve Gowda, he said. "The Shiv Sena is the biggest political enemy

New Delhi, Jun 3: A VIP Embraer aircraft carrying External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to South Africa had gone incommunicado for 14 minutes, triggering a mid-air scare after the Mauritius Air Traffic Control pressed the panic button, an official statement said on Sunday. Contact could not be established with the Indian Air Force flight IFC 31 after it left Male ATC for Mauritius airspace on

Srinagar, Jun 3: Two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel were killed in cross-border firing by Pakistan Rangers along the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir's Akhnoor sector. The incident took place on Saturday night. This comes days after India and Pakistan mutually agreed to undertake sincere measures to improve the existing situation ensuring peace and avoidance of hardships to

New Delhi, Nov 3: The Centre will give environment clearance (EC) to regularise illegal mining projects provided the companies pay penalty as directed by the Supreme Court, the environment ministry has said. The apex court in its August 2, 2017 order had said the mining companies in Odisha operating without EC will have to pay a 100 percent penalty to the state. In the latest directive, the

Vidisha, Jun 3: Professor Sanjeev Srivastava whose dancing video went viral on social media, has been appointed as the brand ambassador by Vidisha Municipal Corporation. Sanjeev Srivastava, 46, is an electronics professor who stormed the social media after his dancing videos from a wedding went viral. The 46-year-old professor said that he is a die-hard fan of actor Govinda. In the video

Istanbul, Jun 3: Turkey on Saturday arrested at least 51 foreigners over their alleged links to the terror group Islamic State (IS) in Istanbul, a police source said. The source was quoted by Anadolu News Agency as saying that simultaneous raids were carried out by the Turkish counter-terrorism squads to nab the suspects, who were reportedly planning to carry out terror attacks. The police also

Bengaluru, Jun 2: Despite winning just 37 seats, constant protestations that he’s chief minister due to Rahul Gandhi’s benevolence and of him being beholden to the Congress and not to the people of Karnataka, HD Kumaraswamy has emerged from a protracted cabinet-formation exercise with a clear upper hand. The JD(S) has walked away with plum portfolios — finance, energy, excise and public works —