Patna: Six children drowned in a tragic incident in Bihar's Bhagalpur district Monday morning while bathing in a waterlogged agricultural field ahead of the Karma-Dharma festival, officials said. The incident occurred around 10 am Monday in the Narayanpur Bahiyar area under the Ajgaivinath Dham block...
Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the US from September 23 to 25 at the invitation of US President Donald Trump, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced Monday. Xi is scheduled to arrive in Washington September 23 and hold summit...
New Delhi: Supreme Court Monday agreed to list for urgent hearing a plea by former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee challenging the Election Commission's decision to freeze the Trinamool Congress' name and party symbol amid a dispute between two rival factions of the TMC....
New York: External Affairs Minister has arrived here for the high-level United Nations General Assembly session this week with an agenda tightly packed with scores of meetings, bilateral and multilateral, with leaders of countries who are streaming here. He was received on arrival by a...
Ayodhya: The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust is set to witness a significant administrative change at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, with newly-appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra (Retd), scheduled to assume full charge of temple operations Monday. Jeetendra Mishra will...
New Delhi: Union Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will visit Punjab Monday for a one-day trip, where he will participate in the BJP’s ‘Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra’ (Drug-Free Punjab Campaign). During his visit, Chouhan will pay obeisance at Takht Sri Damdama Sahib...
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President, Nitin Nabin, will undertake a two-day visit to Meerut and Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh starting Monday, as the party steps up its organisational preparations and reviews its poll strategy in Western Uttar Pradesh. During the visit, Nabin...
Kathmandu: An Indian-German climber and his Nepali Sherpa guide have died after an avalanche struck their tent at Camp 3 of Mount Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest peak, a company official said Sunday. Dhruva Jyoti Guha and Fursemba Sherpa had advanced towards a higher camp from...
New Delhi: Former deputy prime minister LK Advani, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar and Election Commissioner SS Sandhu are among the many prominent figures in the list of voters who have been issued notices for "discrepancies" in their details furnished under...
New Delhi: The Tata Trusts has challenged the validity of Tata Sons' September 17 decision to reappoint N Chandrasekaran as chairman, arguing that the company's Articles of Association require affirmative support from a majority of its Trust-nominated directors and that a chairman's casting vote cannot...
The recent meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping turned out to be a rather tame...
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After remaining deafeningly silent on a media report casting serious doubts about the fairness and functioning of the Election Commission...
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By Aakar Patel Corruption and bribery are two words that are interchangeable. Or are they? Bribery, in the way that...
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By Dilip Cherian The next big change in India’s babudom may not come through another cadre reform or a new...
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