New Delhi: Aviation watchdog DGCA Tuesday said safety lapses cannot be simply blamed on pilots as it announced a slew of strict safety measures for non-scheduled flight operators, including public disclosures of aircraft maintenance history and a safety ranking mechanism, in the wake of recent...
London: Britain's House of Commons Tuesday approved the release of papers related to former Prince Andrew's appointment as a trade envoy. The approval came in a voice vote. It was unclear when the release could occur, as the former prince was arrested last week on...
New Delhi: A multi-billion-rupee Nepal project, a part of China's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has been dropped from election pledges by former Kathmandu Mayor Balen Shah, who is contesting against former Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli in the latter's bastion of Jhapa-5 constituency,...
Colombo: Sri Lankan Navy has arrested 12 Indian fishermen and seized their boat for allegedly poaching in the island nation's waters, an official statement said Tuesday. Sri Lanka's North Central Naval Command on Sunday spotted a group of Indian fishing boats engaging in illegal fishing,...
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal of the Kerala government to change the name of the state to Keralam, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at...
New Delhi: "Corruption" massive backlog of cases, and lack of an adequate number of judges are among the "challenges" faced by the judicial system, according to the new social science NCERT textbook for Class VIII. The section "corruption in the judiciary" in the new book...
Toronto: Ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney's visit to India, the Canadian government is pushing to revoke the citizenship of a Pakistan-born businessman, Tahawwur Rana Hussain, accused of playing a key role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. Rana, 64, is a Pakistan-born Canadian national...
Ranchi: All seven persons on board an air ambulance were killed after the aircraft crashed near Simaria in Jharkhand's Chatra district Monday evening while en route to Delhi from Ranchi, a top state government official said. The crash took place shortly after the aircraft operated...
Chandigarh: Haryana Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau has registered an FIR in the Rs 590-crore fraud involving Haryana government accounts at the Chandigarh branch of IDFC First Bank and AU Small Finance Bank, a government official said on Tuesday. The case has been filed against bank...
Frankfurt(Germany): Frustrated European officials pushed Monday for clarification on how US President Donald Trump's declaration of a 15 per cent global tax on imports would affect the trade deal they struck with Trump this summer as EU legislators hit pause on the deal's ratification until...
Protests by thousands of pro-democracy activists in Leh and Kargil districts on 16 March, demanding, among other things, statehood for...
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The ongoing war between the US-Israel combine and Iran has unexpectedly turned out to be a windfall for Russia. In...
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The widening conflict in West Asia is beginning to cast a shadow over India’s economic outlook. The country’s heavy dependence...
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On 4 November 2013, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to over 120 heads of Indian missions and outlined the...
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