The Centre has asked the Agriculture Ministry to relax the Price Support Scheme (PSS) rule that requires government-procured pulse stocks to be disposed of within nine months. The move aims to maintain larger buffer stocks amid concerns that El Niño-related weather...

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A 75-year-old man from Mumbai’s Grant Road allegedly lost ₹1.64 crore to cyber fraudsters posing as police officers and initially refused help from real police, believing they were imposters. Acting on a tip-off on July 25, officers from the South Cyber Police...

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A bill proposing stricter punishment for examination paper leaks is set to be debated in Parliament on Tuesday after being introduced in the Lok Sabha by Union Minister Jitendra Singh. The legislation, however, faced repeated disruptions on Monday as Opposition...

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A magisterial inquiry into the fatal collapse of an unauthorised four-storey building in Delhi’s Saidulajab has held officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) responsible for serious lapses, concluding that the tragedy was entirely preventable. The...

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A nursery teacher at a private school in Varanasi has been booked after allegedly branding the private parts of a five-year-old boy with a hot knife for urinating in his pants after being denied permission to use the washroom, police said. According to the...

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The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Monday accused authorities of violating the agreement reached with the Centre by allegedly detaining and arresting student protesters in several states, particularly Assam, Bihar and West Bengal. The organisation warned that it would...

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