Pune: Heramb Karmarkar, a marine engineer from Pune who had gone missing following an attack on the merchant vessel 'GFX Galaxy' near the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz, has died, his family confirmed Wednesday. The commercial vessel GFS Galaxy, carrying Indian nationals...
United Nations: India has warned that people’s view of the UN is sinking as it fails to reform the Security Council to make it capable of ending conflicts and human suffering. “Public perception about the UN has changed adversely in the recent past primarily due...
Birmingham: Shubman Gill continued his love affair with the Edgbaston cricket ground as the Indian captain's graceful 80 lay the foundation for a walk-in-the-park six-wicket victory over England in the first ODI here Tuesday. India, now has taken a 1-0 lead in the three-match series....
Washington: Nasa astronaut Anil Menon and two Russian cosmonauts Tuesday lifted off onboard a Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft from Kazakhstan on an eight-month mission to the International Space Station. The Roscosmos spacecraft carrying Menon and Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off from the...
Washington: President Donald Trump welcomed Iraq's new prime minister to the White House Tuesday after strongly backing the political neophyte in his bid for office. Ali al-Zaidi, a businessman with no political background, emerged as a consensus candidate in Iraq after months of deadlock over...
New Delhi: The passport is a document issued by the government to regulate the departure of Indian citizens from the country, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Tuesday amid a raging debate over whether it can be used to verify citizenship. MEA spokesperson Randhir...
New Delhi: India Tuesday called for upholding the freedom of navigation, overflight and unimpeded commerce in the South China Sea, and backed a 2016 ruling by an international arbitral tribunal that rejected Beijing's extensive territorial claims over the resource-rich region. New Delhi's remarks on the...
Dhaka: Bangladesh Tuesday said it welcomes deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina's plans to return home, asserting that she must face justice as a death penalty convict. The comments came amid reports of Hasina's possible return to Bangladesh by the end of this year. Hasina, the...
Kyiv: Ukraine's air force said Tuesday it intercepted five ballistic missiles launched by Russia in a raft of overnight attacks, although other missiles and drones got through and hit warehouses and a school in the capital of Kyiv. It was the first time in almost...
Chennai: In a major thrust towards making healthcare services more accessible, Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay Tuesday launched Nalam TN - an integrated digital platform - to facilitate quick and remote OP registration and appointments at the government medical facilities across the state. One can...
Political satire, which in the present social media age also assumes the form of memes, is a healthy process of...
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Almost ten years ago on 8 November 2016 when PM Narendra Modi personally, in a highly insensitive and arbitrary manner,...
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By Aakar Patel Work on Donald Trump’s arch begins in Washington, DC, this month. Fashioned on Paris’s Arc de Triomphe,...
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Four senior officers sent back to their cadres within a week would be noteworthy. Three of them being barred from...
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