Washington: The Supreme Court Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump's push to throw out a jury's USD 5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The Republican...
Tehran: Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday that Iran and Oman have agreed on the map of the new route for maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. He made the remarks at a weekly press conference in Tehran while elaborating on the...
Tarapith (West Bengal): Eight people died in a fire at a hotel in West Bengal's Birbhum district early Monday, following which police detained one person for alleged lapses in the maintenance of the establishment's fire-fighting system, officials said. Of the 43 people who were in...
Washington/Islamabad: US President Donald Trump has termed the Saudi Arabia-Turkiye-Pakistan defence agreement a "big, bold and important first step" towards defending themselves in a "more meaningful way". Signed in Makkah August 7, the pact establishes a framework for collective deterrence and stipulated that an armed...
New Delhi: India should bring back a petrol variant with a lower ethanol blend to protect millions of older vehicles, according to a government adviser, marking one of the strongest calls yet from a senior official for greater consumer choice amid growing concerns over the...
New Delhi: After renewed issues surfaced over some examinations conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi held a high-level review meeting Monday over its functioning and directed it to conduct a comprehensive audit of all examination processes. The agency is...
Jaipur: Panic gripped Amer in Jaipur Monday morning after a live bomb was discovered in a village field near the CRPF campus. A local woman spotted the suspicious object while passing through Thakrala ki Dhani in Ward No. 148 at around 10:30 a.m. She alerted...
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Monday defended his government's move to approach the Centre for notifying a one-km radius around the Kaziranga National Park as an eco-sensitive zone. He maintained that the government was well within the Supreme Court's directives in this regard...
New Delhi: The government has cleared 31 fresh proposals under the electronics components manufacturing scheme, entailing investments of Rs 7,877 crore, the secretary in the IT ministry, S Krishnan, said Monday. According to Krishnan, the government has received a total investment proposal of Rs 69,548...
New Delhi: Several student organisations on Monday held protests here and announced nationwide demonstrations against the National Testing Agency's decision to re-conduct the UGC-NET examinations for three subjects, alleging that repeated lapses have put students' academic and career plans at risk. The NTA has ordered...
It is a happy augury for Indian democracy that the country's young talents aspiring to join the legal profession have...
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In any democracy, the most disturbing threat to freedom is not always censorship. Sometimes it is the language used to...
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By Dilip Cherian India’s bureaucracy may be running short of one thing more important than babus: succession. The Centre’s decision...
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A colossal tragedy on a sea has given fillip to ultra-right politics in Italy, Germany and the UK. The three...
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