New Delhi: The government has approved the appointment of former Reserve Bank Governor Urjit Patel as Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a period of three years. He would replace K V Subramanian, whose services were terminated by the government six months...
Dehradun: Heavy rains and cloudbursts wreaked havoc in Uttarakhand early Friday, triggering landslides that damaged houses and buried several people under mounds of rubble in various districts, including Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Tehri. A house and a cowshed were buried under landslide debris in Mopata village...
New York/Washington: A day after claiming that the Ukraine conflict was “Modi's war”, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has accused India of being an “oil money laundromat for the Kremlin”. The top Trump administration official also described as "strategic freeloading" New Delhi continuing to...
Zurich: Two-time Olympic medallist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra finished runner-up in the Diamond League Finals for the third time in a row as Julian Weber of Germany lifted his maiden trophy with two 90m-plus throws in a commanding show here Thursday. Chopra was lying third...
Dubai: France, Germany and the United Kingdom started a process Thursday to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, further isolating Tehran after its 12-day war with Israel saw its atomic sites repeatedly bombed. The mechanism, termed “snapback” by the diplomats who...
New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat urged every Indian couple to have three children while answering questions of audiences during a programme “100 Varsh ki Sangh Yatra” Thursday, emphasising the need to maintain a sustainable fertility rate to prevent community extinction and...
New Delhi: India Thursday announced that Dinesh K. Patnaik, presently Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain, has been appointed as the next High Commissioner to Canada. According to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Patnaik, a career diplomat belonging to the 1990 batch of the...
New Delhi: Alleging that abuses were hurled at the late mother of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during Rahul Gandhi's ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra' in Bihar, the BJP Thursday asserted the Congress-led INDIA bloc will be "punished" by the people in the upcoming assembly polls. A delegation...
New Delhi: The government is trying to speed up the rollout of the export promotion mission to help exporters, a government official said Thursday, a day after the US imposed a total of 50 per cent tariffs on Indian shipments. Exporters, the official said, have...
Mumbai: The death toll in the Virar building collapse in Maharashtra has risen to 17, officials confirmed Thursday, as search and rescue efforts entered the second day. The tragic incident occurred in the early hours of Wednesday when the rear portion of the Ramabai Apartment...
The memories of the deadly al-Qaeda strikes on 9/11 on iconic US building complexes are still alive even after several...
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Violence erupted in Kathmandu 8 September as thousands of young Nepalese took to the streets and clashed with security forces,...
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Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on 7 September announced his resignation, a move that could usher in a period of...
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As someone who prefers India as a pluralist and secular society, I have my problems with this government as many...
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