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New Delhi: State-owned NHAI has set a 10-minute deadline for ambulances deployed on national highways to reach any accident site within a 10-km vicinity, to cut delays in emergency response. It said failure to meet the timeline could attract a penalty of Rs 10,000 per...

Washington: US Thursday accused more than 40 countries, including India, of operating a “shadow transhipment network” to help China evade high tariffs and unveiled plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and penalise such practices. In a report titled ‘The Great Trans shipment Scam’,...

New Delhi: Hours after India made public assurances last week that ethanol-blended petrol was safe, the country’s main auto lobby withdrew a complaint about fuel contamination it had sent to the government a week earlier, saying some figures needed more checks. But separate communications between...

New Delhi: The Bar Council of India (BCI) Thursday asked state bar councils not to enrol, for now, any student passing out of NALSAR Law University, Hyderabad, in 2026, till the time it completes an inquiry into the protest by a section of students against...

Kolkata: Former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh was arrested from Baleshwar in Odisha Thursday over his alleged involvement in the “hurried cremation” of the doctor, who was raped and murdered at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata in 2024, police said. Ghosh,...

Dhaka: Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, a longtime secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and a close ally of former premier Khaleda Zia, was nominated by the ruling party Thursday as its presidential candidate. The presidential election scheduled for August 20 was necessitated after...

Chennai: Two workers were killed after a powerful explosion triggered a major fire at a licensed fireworks factory near Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu's Virudhunagar district Thursday, officials said. The accident occurred at the manufacturing unit in Namaskarithanpatti while employees were engaged in production work. The...

New Delhi: From the recent student mobilisation at Jantar Mantar to demands over admissions, metro concessions and access to education, issues that have fuelled Delhi's campus protests are set to find their way into the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) election campaign, with student organisations...

New Delhi: Air India and Air India Express will begin mandatory psychoactive substance testing of all their pilots Thursday, expanding checks beyond regulatory requirements, following the captain of a Phuket-Delhi flight that suddenly lost altitude tested positive for marijuana, according to sources. The two Tata...

New Delhi: Union Minister Giriraj Singh Thursday hit out at the Opposition for bringing monkeys into Parliament and said they have crossed all limits. His remarks came after several Opposition members, including Congress MPs Pawan Khera, Imran Pratapgarhi, and Jebi Mather, participated in a demonstration...