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Nearly 90 killed as storm lashes Uttar Pradesh

Almost 90 people were killed in a violent storm that battered India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, with rain and hail, the state disaster management and relief office said on

Suvendu Adhikari to vacate Nandigram, retain Bhabanipur seat

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced on Wednesday that he will retain the Bhabanipur Assembly seat and give up Nandigram. He won both the Bhabanipur and Nandigram seats in

Indian photographer Raghu Rai who documented Bangladesh’s liberation war dies

Internationally acclaimed Indian master photographer Raghu Rai, who documented Bangladesh’s war of Independence in 1971, died on Sunday, his family announced. He was 83. A construction engineer by training, Rai,

Three killed in clashes in India’s Manipur state

Gun battles between rival ethnic groups in India’s troubled northeastern Manipur state killed three men, police said, the latest unrest in the far-flung region. Manipur has seen periodic clashes for

India chooses Dinesh Trivedi as new high commissioner to Bangladesh

The Indian government has decided to appoint former union minister Dinesh Trivedi, currently a BJP leader, as the next high commissioner to Bangladesh, Hindustan Times reports. However, there has been

India’s Rajya Sabha to pay homage to Khaleda Zia today

The Rajya Sabha of India will hold obituary references on Wednesday to pay tributes to several distinguished personalities, including former Bangladesh prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Begum Khaleda

Surge in deadly ‘brain-eating’ amoeba cases causes alarm in India’s Kerala

An increase in cases of a rare but fatal form of encephalitis has put authorities in India’s southern state of Kerala on alert, forcing them to step up testing to

37 firms granted conditional approval to export hilsa to India

The Ministry of Commerce has granted conditional approval to 37 firms to export hilsa to India ahead of the upcoming Durga Puja festival. The decision was disclosed in a notification