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New Delhi: Union Home Ministry has directed that all six stanzas of the National Song Vande Mataram, written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, shall be sung first when the National Song and National Anthem Jan Gana Man are to be played together. In an order dated...

New York/Washington: The office of the US Trade Representative has removed a social media post that featured a map of India showing the entire region of Jammu and Kashmir, including Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, as well as the Aksai Chin region as part of the Indian territory....

New Delhi: Congress Wednesday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the India-US interim trade agreement, saying the deal is a steal by the "PM's good friend in Washington" and reflects an "abject failure" of our "political huglomacy" as well as economic diplomacy....

New York/Washington: White House has removed "pulses" from a list of American products on which it said India will eliminate or reduce tariffs, in a revised fact sheet issued on the interim trade deal. On Monday, the White House had issued a fact sheet on...

New Delhi: Former Army Chief General (Retd) M.M. Naravane broke his silence over the raging controversy pertaining to his unpublished memoirs on the Galwan stand-off in 2020 between India and China, even as the no-holds-barred confrontation between the government and Opposition intensified to a new...

New Delhi: Speaker Om Birla will not preside over Lok Sabha proceedings till the issue pertaining to his removal from the office is settled, citing moral grounds, sources said Tuesday. Separately, Article 96 of the Constitution bars a speaker or a deputy speaker from presiding...

New Delhi: The government Tuesday brought in stricter obligations for online platforms on handling AI-generated and synthetic content, including deepfakes, saying platforms such as X and Instagram must take down within three hours any such content flagged by a competent authority or courts. The government...

New Delhi: French President Emmanuel Macron will undertake a three-day visit to India beginning February 17, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced Tuesday. Macron will hold wide-ranging talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, besides attending the AI Impact summit. Both leaders will hold discussions...

New Delhi: The India-US interim trade deal looks more like a "pre-committed purchase agreement" that overturns every principle of reciprocity, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said Tuesday and slammed Union ministers S Jaishankar and Piyush Goyal for playing "ping pong" when questions are posed. Initiating a...

New Delhi: Under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India's trade ecosystem is undergoing a historic and rapid transformation, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said Tuesday. Interacting with a delegation of the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), led by Member of...