Nagercoil: Tamil Nadu Minister S Rajesh Kumar has said the two ministers from the Congress would resign from the state Cabinet if coalition ally - the TVK - does not endorse Rahul Gandhi as the Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2029 parliamentary polls, declaring that...
Dhaka: Bangladesh has said it saw no risk in joining the Mecca defence pact with Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan, asserting it would not restrict Dhaka's engagement with other partners. Signed August 7, the 'Makkah Joint Defence Agreement' establishes a framework for collective deterrence and...
New Delhi: The government has notified the Semicon 2.0 scheme with an outlay of Rs 1.27 lakh crore to boost the chip manufacturing ecosystem in the country. The scheme has been divided into six segments covering designing of chips by Indian firms, setting up units...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday refused to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions for disclosure of the ethanol content in petrol and greater transparency regarding the compatibility of ethanol-blended fuel with vehicles. A Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Prasanna B. Varale...
Ranchi: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID), probing irregularities in Jharkhand's JPSC and JSSC recruitment examinations, has uncovered a massive scam involving a sophisticated racket that ranged from software-based result manipulation to removing answer scripts from highly secure strong rooms for rewriting. The revelations have come...
Haldwani: An FIR has been registered against Rahul Gandhi, following a complaint by a member of the Valmiki community in Haldwani alleging that the Congress leader gave a casteist spin to a religious ritual held at the venue of the AICC chief's programme, police said...
New Delhi: A case involving the sexual assault of a three-year-old nursery student at a private school in Delhi's Bawana has come to light. Police have arrested a school bus driver in connection with the incident, officials said Monday. The accused, identified as Vikas, had...
Greater Noida: Four people were killed in a car-truck collision on the Yamuna Expressway in the Jewar police station area in Greater Noida of Uttar Pradesh, officials said Monday. According to the police, the accident occurred Sunday night when a truck travelling from Noida to...
Asheville: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrived in South Carolina Sunday (US local time) to attend a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors that will examine global growth, economic imbalances, sovereign debt and the consequences of the Iran conflict. Sitharaman was welcomed...
Washington: US forces Sunday (local time) struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island, US Central Command spokesperson Tim Hawkins said, marking the first known US strike against Iran since late July. "Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines...
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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A foreign outlet interviewed me this week and at the end of it, after we had wrapped up, the interviewer...
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