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Pednekar's statement came hours after the BJP's Mumbai unit alleged the ruling Shiv Sena was conspiring to postpone the elections to the Mumbai civic body.

Banerjee was referring to the controversy caused by the central deputation order on Alapan Bandyopadhyay, who retired as Bengal chief secretary on Monday.

The BJP also plans to hold blood donation campaigns.

Tennessee licensed a shelter for immigrant children a year before the state's Republican governor and U.S. Senators began expressing outrage over unaccompanied minors being sent to Chattanooga.

It was learnt that Rs 500 crore would be immediately given to Odisha but Rs 500 crore for Bengal and Jharkhand will be released on the basis of the extent of the damage.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday advanced a sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the country's ability to compete with Chinese technology, as Congress increasingly seeks to take a tough line against Beijing.

Johannesburg, May 21 (AP) Ethiopia's military prosecutors have pressed charges against 28 soldiers suspected of killing civilians in the ongoing conflict in the northern Tigray region, the attorney general's office announced Friday. Three Ethiopian sold...

Governor Arif Mohammed Khan administered the oath of office to 77-year-old Pinarayi Vijayan.

Digital extortion attempts are returning to their preColonial Pipeline levels, according to data and interviews with some incident responders, suggesting that the upheaval around the hack that paralyzed a major U.S. fuel conduit has yet to curb cybercrimi...

Human rights activists on Tuesday called for athletes to boycott next year's Winter Olympics in China and put pressure on the International Olympic Committee over the staging of the Games.

The White House on Friday began voluntarily identifying people who visited with President Joe Biden or his aides, reinstating a practice put in place by Democrat Barack Obama but later dropped by Republican Donald Trump.

Conservatives in and out of Congress are expressing opposition to Rep. Elise Stefanik s rise toward House Republicans' No. 3 leadership job, grumbling that is unlikely to derail her but serves notice that the right wing is battling again to affect the par...

The Biden administration plans to release by the end of June a list of corrupt Central American officials who may be subject to sanctions, a U.S. special envoy told Reuters, as Washington seeks to cut back on a root cause of increased migration to the U.S...

But in vote share comparison, unlike the Congress, the vote share of All India Trinamool Congress increased each time

The Treasury Department says it expects to borrow $463 billion in the current AprilJune quarter and $2.28 trillion for the full budget year, as the government finances continued pandemic releif measures.

While Prashant Kishor formulated TMC strategies for Bengal elections, Abhishek Banerjee oversaw their implementation and took feedback from local leaders.