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SRINAGAR: Almost 40,000 tourists have visited Asia’s largest Tulip Garden, housing over one million tulips, since it was opened to the public on Wednesday. Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta, declared the garden open in presence of senior officers from the Floriculture department, Tourism department, J&K Bank and a large number of tourists, who had […]

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will embark on a five-day visit to Maldives and Sri Lanka starting Saturday. In Sri Lanka, he will participate in BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting on March 29.   During first leg of visit to Addu city in Maldives on March 26 and March 27, EAM Jaishankar will call on President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and […]

NEW DELHI: A day after the Calcutta High Court ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to register a case in West Bengal’s Birbhum massacre, the Central probe agency has named 21 suspects in its FIR. In Birbhum’s Bogtui village, eight people, including women and children, were killed after miscreants set ten houses ablaze, which led […]

NEW DELHI: Delhi Deputy CM and Finance Minister Manish Sisodia presented the Rs 75,800 crore annual budget of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in the Delhi assembly on Saturday. This year’s budget focuses on creating employment and boosting businesses. Calling it a ‘Rozgar Budget’, Sisodia said that he has come up with schemes that would provide employment […]

BIRBHUM: CBI’s Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) on Friday visited the smouldering houses and adjunct area of Birbhum in West Bengal. Eight people were burnt alive on Tuesday following the murder of a local TMC leader in Bagtoi under Rampurhat in Birbhum. An eight-member-team from CFSL of the CBI went to the spot to collect samples […]