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New Delhi: The India-UK free trade agreement, signed in July last year, is likely to be implemented in April 2026, according to an official. India and the UK, July 24, 2025, signed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) under which 99 per cent of...

New Delhi/Dhaka: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will represent the Indian government at the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected Bangladesh government in Dhaka February 17, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), under the leadership of...

New Delhi: The much-anticipated India-Pakistan T20 World Cup encounter scheduled for Sunday evening has once again ignited sharp political reactions across party lines. While leaders from the BJP and its allies voiced confidence that India would secure a decisive victory, the Congress questioned the very...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate India AI Impact Expo 2026 at the Bharat Mandapam Monday, according to a PMO statement. The Expo will be held from February 16 to 20, alongside the India AI Impact Summit, at the same venue. Spread across...

New Delhi: She apprised Klingbeil about the success of India's Digital Payment systems and willingness to share the best practices on India's digital stack with Germany. Sitharaman also met Brigitte Haas, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein, and Alois Philipp Maria, Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, in...

New Delhi: Upping the ante against the government over the India-US interim trade deal, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday posed a string of questions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and alleged that "we are witnessing a betrayal" of Indian farmers. Gandhi, who has been...

New Delhi/Srinagar: Security agencies have busted an ever-growing ecosystem of "mule accounts" in Jammu and Kashmir that serves as the financial backbone of global scam networks, with officials fearing that the funds routed through these accounts could be used for separatist and anti-national activities. The...

Srinagar: The 'white-collar' terror module recently busted by the Jammu and Kashmir Police indicates that the doctors arrested in the case had been radicalised since 2016 and formed a new terror organisation named "Ansar Interim" to carry out subversive activities in the Union Territory as...

Tawang: The debate and subsequent vote on the no-confidence motion moved by the opposition against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will be taken up March 9, when the House reassembles after the recess, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said Sunday. Rijiju stated that the...

New York: A 22-year-old Indian postgraduate student who went missing in the US less than a week ago has been found dead, the Indian mission has said. Saketh Sreenivasaiah, a student at the University of California, Berkeley, hailing from Karnataka, had been missing since Monday....