New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday agreed to hear a batch of pleas challenging the Election Commission's decision to conduct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and other states. A bench of Justices Surya Kant, SVN Bhatti and Joymalya Bagchi issued notice...
Amaravati: Fifty-five people from Andhra Pradesh are among 370 Indian nationals repatriated from Thailand after they were rescued from cybercrime hubs in Myanmar. Three flights carrying the Indians landed in Delhi. According to Andhra Pradesh government officials, all 55 belong to Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam. The...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi departed for South Africa's Johannesburg Friday at the invitation of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to attend the 20th G20 Leaders’ Summit. Taking to social media platform X, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said, “PM Narendra Modi has...
Johannesburg: The United States government has indicated that it has had a “change of mind” and wants to participate at the Group of 20 summit in South Africa in a reverse of its boycott, the South African president said Thursday. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa...
Tel Aviv: India and Israel Thursday inked terms of reference (ToR) to formally launch negotiations for a free trade agreement, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said. The ToR include market access for goods by eliminating tariff and non-tariff barriers, investment facilitation, simplification of customs...
Paris: A wax museum in Paris Thursday unveiled a new figure of the late Princess Diana depicted in a black dress that has come to be known as her “revenge dress,” decades after her tragic death in the city. The Grevin Museum, one of Europe's...
New Delhi/Washington: The United States (US) Thursday expressed appreciation of its ongoing partnership with the Indian security agencies for dismantling terror-linked networks and holding criminals accountable. In a statement shared on X, US Embassy in India stated, "We appreciate our ongoing partnership with India’s security...
Kathmandu: Fresh tension erupted Thursday as 10 people were injured after Gen Z youths clashed with members of the ousted prime minister K P Sharma Oli's party, prompting authorities to reimpose curfew to contain the situation in Nepal's Bara district bordering India. Tension escalated in...
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has filed a chargesheet against businessman Robert Vadra, husband of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, in a money laundering case linked to UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari, official sources said. The prosecution complaint has been filed before a special Prevention...
Bhopal: A day after Al Falah University founder Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui was sent to 13-day Enforcement Directorate custody in a terror-financing–linked money laundering case, he has now been booked in a separate Rs 2 crore fraud case following the registration of an FIR in Bhopal....
Tensions between the US and Venezuela have reached a seemingly critical level over what the US administration ostensibly calls its...
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Despite the newfound bonhomie between China and India in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s tariff war, China is...
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In its latest annual review, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has assigned a ‘C’ grade to India’s national accounts statistics...
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Last month, along with Pakistan and Iraq, India was elected to the UN Human Rights Council from Asia. The UNHRC...
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