New Delhi: The Commission for Air Quality Management in Delhi-NCR and adjoining areas Friday invoked actions under Stage III ('Severe' air quality in Delhi), as the air quality dipped with the AQI touching 354, an official said. The Sub Committee on Graded Response Action Plan...
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Friday that India is closely watching the fast-developing situation in Iran and assured that it will take all necessary measures for the welfare of Indians. While addressing a weekly media briefing in New Delhi Friday, MEA...
Nagpur: In a resounding endorsement of the "Double Engine" governance, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has effectively decimated the opposition in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) elections. As counting enters the final stages Friday, the BJP has surged past the majority mark in the 151-member...
Kolkata: The BJP Friday claimed that the continuing tension, blockades and stone-pelting in West Bengal's Beldanga since the body of the migrant worker, allegedly killed in Jharkhand, arrived, proved that the rule of law has collapsed in the state. With protesters blocking the National Highways...
Seoul: A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday in the first verdict from eight criminal trials over the martial law debacle that forced him out of office and other allegations. Yoon was impeached, arrested and dismissed...
New Delhi: The BJP-led alliance has surged past the majority mark in the high-stakes Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, according to counting trends, dealing a setback to the Thackeray cousins’ efforts to retain control of India’s richest civic body. As votes were counted for elections...
Dhaka: As a disturbing pattern of violence against minorities continues to escalate in Bangladesh, a Hindu home was set ablaze in Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet district. The incident took place at the house of a school teacher, Birendra Kumar Dey, sparking fear and panic among...
New Delhi: The BJP Friday released the schedule for the election of the party's national president, saying nominations for the post will be filed January 19, and the name of the new party chief will be announced the next day. According to the organisational poll...
New Delhi: The BJP-led alliance has taken an early lead in the high-stakes Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, according to initial trends, as counting of votes began Friday for civic body polls across Maharashtra. The results are being closely watched, with elections held for 29...
United Nations: During their faceoff at the Security Council, the United States warned Iran that “all options are on the table” to stop the attacks on protesters, while Tehran said that it was seeking “neither escalation nor confrontation”. “President (Donald) Trump is a man of...
India is one of 60 countries the US has invited to join President Donald Trump’s controversial “Board of Peace” initiative...
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The world has been shocked by the way the medal of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize – one of the...
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The prospects of Turkey joining a Saudi Arabia–Pakistan security arrangement that mirrors NATO’s collective defence principle could be a cause...
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Aakar Patel My generation (I am 56) grew up on the expectation that India would compete with China and become...
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