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Raipur, Nov 6 :  Over 1,200 candidates will fight it out for 90 seats in the upcoming Chhattisgarh Assembly polls where besides the BJP and the Congress, smaller parties have also thrown

Bhopal (MP), Nov 6 :  The Congress has issued its third list of 13 candidates for the November 28 assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, which mainly comprises new faces. The party has

New Delhi, Nov 5 :  Senior diplomat Gaddam Dharmendra has been appointed India’s Ambassador to Iran, the Ministry of External Affairs announced Monday. Dharmendra, a 1990-batch Indian Foreign Service officer and at

Islamabad, Nov 5 :  The just-concluded joint military exercise between Pakistan and Russian armies has reinforced the existing relationship between the two militaries, according to Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

Patna, Nov 5 :  As many as 175 police constables, many of them women, have been dismissed from service for indulging in large-scale vandalism and violence here Friday, following the death of

Colombo, Nov 5 : Sri Lankan Speaker Karu Jayasuriya on Monday slammed President Maithripala Sirisena, saying it was “anti-democratic” to sack Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and suspend the Parliament, and asserted that he

Malkangiri (Odisha), Nov 5 :  At least five Maoists, including a woman, were gunned down in an exchange of fire with security personnel in a forest in Malkangiri district Monday, a senior

Islamabad, Nov 4 : A senior Pakistani minister on Sunday said that appeasement to “avoid bloodshed” sends a dangerous message to non-state actors, a day after the radical Islamist parties reached a deal

Islamabad/Lahore, Nov 4: Pakistan police on Sunday arrested nearly 250 people from across the country on charges of arson, vandalism and violence during the three-day mass protests following the acquittal of Christian woman

Bhopal, Nov 4 :  The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has said it will play a key role in the formation of the next government in Madhya Pradesh as it expects a fractured