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New Delhi: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has rejected criticism of ethanol-blended fuel, asserting that E20 petrol is scientifically tested, safe for vehicles and central to India's push for energy self-reliance, while alleging that a misinformation campaign had intensified after the...

Jammu: Chief of Army Staff General Dhiraj Seth Thursday visited forward areas in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district and reviewed the prevailing security situation, operational preparedness and combat readiness of troops in the region. The visit, his first to the forward areas in Poonch after...

Kolkata: A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court Thursday granted the Trinamool Congress faction, led by Mamata Banerjee, conditional and limited access to three party accounts that have been subjected to debit restrictions by the bank authorities, following directives from the police and later...

Hyderabad: In yet another incident of food poisoning in government-operated residential schools in Telangana, 26 students were taken ill at a tribal residential school in Nagarkurnool district Thursday. The students fell ill after breakfast at Chenchu Tribal Government Residential School in Mannanur Village of Amrabad...

Melbourne: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Australia's Governor-General, Sam Mostyn in Melbourne During the meeting, PM Modi expressed satisfaction with the outcomes of the third Australia-India Annual Summit held with his Australian counterpart, Anthony Albanese. "PM Narendra Modi held a meeting with the Governor-General of...

New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday attacked the Modi government over the alleged irregularities in the UGC-NET exam, demanding that Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan must resign and the NTA be disbanded. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh shared on X a media report which stated that...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Thursday deferred the hearing on the Meghalaya government's plea challenging the grant of bail to Sonam Raghuvanshi, prime accused in the Raja Raghuvanshi honeymoon murder case, till July 14 and directed the state authorities to place on record the arrest memo...

Melbourne: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart, Anthony Albanese, participated in the Australia-India Annual Leaders' Summit in Melbourne Thursday, during which they held delegation-level talks aimed at strengthening bilateral ties. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and other officials...

New Delhi: Pakistan's recent claims projecting an impending water crisis in the Indus Basin and attributing river flow variations to upstream actions fail to withstand scrutiny when examined against Pakistan's own hydrological data, reservoir records and operational realities. A closer assessment of the evidence reveals...

Dehradun: Uttarakhand Wednesday became the country's sixth fully literate state under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the 'ULLAS' (Understanding Lifelong Learning for All in Society) programme, officials said. The state achieved the significant milestone after meeting the prescribed adult literacy benchmarks set by...