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New Delhi: For India's diplomacy, 2025 was a giant test in many ways as it had to navigate the geopolitical implications of the worst military conflict in decades with Pakistan, US President Donald Trump's punitive tariffs and increasingly troubled relations with Bangladesh. As the horrific...

New Delhi: India Wednesday successfully test-fired two Pralay missiles in quick succession off the coast of Odisha. Pralay is an indigenously developed quasi-ballistic missile featuring state-of-the-art navigation system to ensure high precision. It is capable of carrying multiple types of warheads against various targets. The...

New Delhi: Operation Sindoor, the Indian military's most expansive and multi-domain combat mission in half a century to punish Pakistan for its relentless support to cross-border terrorism, redefined India's overarching security and strategic goals in 2025, making it a watershed year for the defence establishment....

New Delhi: Redefining the Aravallis, worsening air quality and intensifying the climate change debate -- these are some of the issues that will continue to dominate the environment sector in India in 2026 with calls for long-term integrated strategies rather than episodic responses growing louder....

New Delhi: The government Wednesday approved a major relief package for Vodafone Idea, freezing its outstanding dues and approving a five-year moratorium on payments, providing a critical lifeline to the debt-laden telecom operator. The Union Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, agreed to freeze...

Tonk (Rajasthan): A massive haul of 150 kg of explosives along with 200 cartridges and six bundles of safety fuse wire was seized from a car, police said Wednesday. Two people have been arrested. Both Surendra Patwa and Surendra Mochi are residents of Bundi district,...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Union Cabinet Wednesday approved the widening and strengthening of NH-326 in Odisha, upgrading the existing two-lane stretch to a two-lane highway with paved shoulder from 68.600 km to 311.700 km under the EPC mode. According to an official statement, the total capital cost...

Chennai: The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Workers' Rights Retrieval Kazhagam on Wednesday strongly condemned the "brutal attack" on a migrant worker from Odisha in Tamil Nadu's Tiruttani, blaming the DMK government for what it described as the growing menace of drugs and...

Chennai/Bhubaneswar: Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has urged the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to take suo motu cognisance of the brutal assault on a 20-year-old youth from Odisha in Tiruttani, describing the incident as a serious violation of human rights...

Faridabad: Two accused have been arrested on the charges of gang-raping a woman in a moving van for two hours in Haryana's Faridabad after offering her a lift, police said Wednesday. According to the officials, the incident occurred on the intervening night of Monday and...