New Delhi: The monthly average rainfall over India is expected to be below normal during July, the India Meteorological Department said Tuesday in its monthly forecast. The weather department stated that July is most likely to see 94 pc of the long-period average rainfall (1971-2020)....
New Delhi: Twenty-three political parties along with an Independent MP Tuesday sent a joint letter to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on the SIR process, the role of the Election Commission and other election-related issues. The signatories include all major INDIA bloc parties, as...
Washington: Supreme Court Monday dramatically expanded presidential power, upholding President Donald Trump's firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one important exception: the Federal Reserve. The justices allowed Fed governor Lisa Cook to stay in her job while she fights the Republican president's...
Dubai: President Donald Trump said Monday on social media that Iran had requested a meeting with US counterparts, though Iranian officials said no such meeting was scheduled. The US president has tried to preserve an increasingly fragile interim deal as hostilities have mounted in the...
Caracas: Venezuelan National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez said that the death toll from two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela Wednesday has risen to 1,450. After the two powerful magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes, Venezuela has recorded 430 light to moderate aftershocks, Rodriguez said in the...
New Delhi: India Sunday forcefully dismissed Pakistan's allegations of an Indian link to an attack on a military base in Karachi that left four paramilitary personnel dead, saying the neighbouring country should look inwards and take credible action against terror infrastructure on its soil. Reports...
New Delhi: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk Sunday began a hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, joining the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protest demanding accountability over alleged irregularities in examinations and seeking the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Before sitting on the fast, Wangchuk, along...
Dubai: The US military said Saturday it had struck 10 targets in Iran at President Donald Trump's direction, continuing a string of attacks that have shaken the war's uneasy ceasefire. US Central Command, in a post to social media, said that US military aircraft targeted...
Dubai: Iran launched a drone assault targeting Bahrain while a ship in the Strait of Hormuz separately came under attack Saturday, likely Tehran's response to overnight airstrikes by the United States. The attacks across the Persian Gulf show the danger of the Iran war again...
New Delhi: The funeral of former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar's elder brother, Shahid Akhtar, in Islamabad has come under scrutiny after senior members of Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), including its deputy chief Saifullah Kasuri, were seen attending last rites. Shahid Akhtar passed away...
The European Union has lent itself to criticism for a controversial meeting of its officials with Taliban representatives in Brussels...
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A nation remembers its wars not only through victories but also through the names of those who never returned to...
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By Aakar Patel What cannot be passed in Parliament as law can be incarnated as a change in the rules....
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By Dilip Cherian The Uttarakhand government’s decision to clear whistleblower forest officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi for a possible deputation to the...
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