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New Delhi: Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who created history by becoming the first Indian to set foot on the International Space Station (ISS), was Sunday awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award. In June last year, Shukla became the second Indian to have...

New Delhi: Former Kerala Chief Minister and Communist leader V S Achuthanandan and actor Dharmendra are among the awardees to receive the second-highest civilian honour, Padma Vibhushan, posthumously for 2026, the government announced Sunday. In a statement, the government announced 131 Padma awards for the...

New Delhi: Veteran journalist Mark Tully, a chronicler of India and an acclaimed author, breathed his last at a private hospital in New Delhi Sunday, his close friend said. He was 90. The award-winning journalist was ailing for some time and had been admitted to...

Lahore: Pakistan Sunday announced the Salman Agha-led squad for the ICC T20 World Cup, which will be played in India and Sri Lanka from February 7, with the veteran duo Babar Azam and pace spearhead Shaheen Shah Afridi making a return. Having recently become the...

Dhaka: A horrifying act of violence against a Hindu minority member has shocked Bangladesh, coming just weeks ahead of the national elections, as a 23-year-old Hindu man, identified as Chanchal Chandra Bhowmik, was reportedly burned alive while sleeping in a garage in Narsingdi, around 50...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday urged industry and start-ups to focus on quality and resolve to make excellence a benchmark in manufacturing. In his monthly 'Mann ki Baat' address, Modi said Indian products should be synonymous with top quality and urged the industry...

Kolkata: The electoral registration officers (EROs) engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal will need to obtain final clearance from the special roll observers (SROs) before uploading the voters' names into the final electoral list. However, this restriction will only apply...

Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Saturday called for "buy Canadian" and "build Canadian" in response to a new tariff threat from US President Donald Trump. Carney published a pre-taped video on his personal social media account about buying and building Canadian to combat economic...

New Delhi: President of India Droupadi Murmu will Sunday kick off celebrations on the 16th National Voters' Day (NVD-2026) by handing over Elector Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) to the newly-enrolled young electors. This year, the theme of the event is 'My India, My Vote' with...

Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that two days of trilateral talks with Russia and the United States in Abu Dhabi concluded with "constructive" discussions on "possible parameters for ending the war." The talks are the first known instance that officials from the Trump...