Bhavnagar: Two more people have died after consuming methanol-laced spurious liquor in Bhavnagar district, taking the death toll in Gujarat’s latest hooch tragedy to 13, while three to five patients remain under treatment, officials said Sunday. Bhavnagar District Collector Manish Kumar Bansal said Mukesh Manilal...
New Delhi: No new strain of H1N1 has been identified and there is no cause for panic, sources at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said Sunday amid an increase in swine flu cases in Delhi and other parts of the country. The Influenza...
New Delhi: Cockroach Janta Party will convene a meeting of its national working committee Monday to review the status of the commitments made by the Centre after the withdrawal of its nationwide agitation on July 25, saying the government is yet to formally communicate the...
New Delhi: The next space exploration phase will deepen India’s role in human spaceflight, planetary exploration and advanced space technology as these efforts will support India’s ambition to become a leading global space power, according to the government. An official fact sheet states that India...
New Delhi: Ten days after both Houses of Parliament were adjourned sine die, the Monsoon session is yet to end formally, giving rise to speculation that the government wants to pass a key legislation without convening a new session. Both the Lok Sabha and the...
Dhaka: Bangladesh is open to joining the recently formed defence alliance between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkiye, two junior ministers have said, while stressing that any decision would be guided by the country's national interests. Signed in Makkah August 7, the pact establishes a framework...
Mumbai: In a tragic incident ahead of the 'Ganesh Chaturthi' festival celebrations, two people were crushed to death, and five others, including two children, suffered injuries after a 22-foot idol of Lord Ganesh fell on them during the arrival ceremony of the 'Bhuleshwaracha Raja' in...
Dhaka: A retired Hindu schoolteacher, his wife, daughter and 12-year-old son were found dead inside their locked home in Rangpur city, in suspicious circumstances that have prompted a police investigation. The bodies were recovered at around 11:30 pm Saturday from a house in the Daspara...
Tehran: Iran's top security official Mohsen Rezaei warned that any country participating in the US economic war against Iran will be considered an "enemy" by Tehran. Rezaei, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, made the remarks Saturday. He said Iran would first negotiate...
New Delhi: Posters calling Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi the real life Batman were put up near the Congress' Indira Bhawan headquarters and in parts of central Delhi by a party functionary. The posters had Gandhi's picture alongside the picture of Batman....
Banning books by governments does not surprise much since this has been going on across the world since long. But...
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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in its latest report released recently has castigated India for...
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Climate justice should become one of the most important points when discussing climate change. The harsh reality of human-induced climate...
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A foreign outlet interviewed me this week and at the end of it, after we had wrapped up, the interviewer...
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