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...
Mumbai: Around 3,000 LPG cylinders were swept away by floodwaters after a protective wall at the HPCL Patalganga LPG Bottling Plant in Maharashtra's Raigad district collapsed following heavy rainfall. Videos circulating on social media showed hundreds of gas cylinders floating in the swollen Patalganga River,...
Kalpetta: The death toll in the Wayanad mudslide tragedy climbed to five Thursday after rescue teams recovered two bodies from the debris, even as the search resumed for three people who remain missing. State Agriculture Minister T. Siddique, who is at the accident site, said...
Kolkata: The West Bengal Police informed Thursday that 22 more suspects have been apprehended in the last 24 hours. They have been identified in connection with the lynching of a youth, attacking police, vandalism of public property, including police vehicles and railway tracks, and the...
Umaria: Five members of a family, including a child and three women, were killed after their car rammed into a truck on National Highway-43 in Madhya Pradesh's Umaria district in the early hours of Thursday, police said. The accident occurred between 3 a.m. and 4...
Bhubaneswar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Wednesday arrested a youth from Uttar Pradesh for his alleged involvement in the rooftop explosion at a house in the Sundarpada area here earlier this year, which killed two persons and left two others grievously injured. The accused has...
New Delhi: India and the Maldives have concluded negotiations for a bilateral investment treaty (BIT), and the text is undergoing legal scrubbing before the deal is signed. The two countries are also fast-tracking negotiations for the proposed free trade agreement (FTA). These issues, among others,...
As Parliament prepares to convene for the Monsoon Session on Monday, 20 July, the Modi government stands accused of shrinking...
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By Aakar Patel A few thoughts on the Cockroach Janata Party’s protest come to mind. The hunger strike by activists,...
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Governments are quick to invoke the rule of law but are less good at living by it. The Department of...
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With the retail inflation in India climbing to 4.38 per cent, tell tale signs of the global economic crisis have...
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