Bengaluru: The tug-of-war between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar over the CM post turned into a war of words Thursday as the two faced off over keeping up a promise. Amid intensifying power tussle, Shivakumar insisted that "word power is world power,"...
Mumbai: Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty scaled fresh lifetime highs in intra-day trade Thursday before closing marginally higher amid positive global trends on growing hopes of a US Fed rate cut and foreign fund inflows. Rising for the second day, the 30-share BSE Sensex...
Chennai: The weather system brewing over the southwest Bay of Bengal and the adjoining Sri Lanka coast intensified into a deep depression Thursday, with meteorologists warning that it will strengthen into a cyclonic storm by Thursday evening. According to the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), the...
New Delhi: Highlighting the need for a stringent law to protect the dignity of the disabled, the Supreme Court Thursday asked the Centre to consider framing a statute to make derogatory remarks ridiculing persons with disabilities and rare genetic disorders a penal offence on the...
New Delhi/Aizawl: The Enforcement Directorate Thursday conducted maiden searches along the India-Myanmar border in Mizoram, apart from some places in Assam and Gujarat, in a drugs trafficking linked money laundering case, officials said. The federal probe agency also seized Rs 35 lakh cash apart from...
New Delhi: A Delhi court Thursday sent Jasir Bilal Wani, a key accused in the Red Fort blast case, to the National Investigating Agency's custody for seven days. Wani was produced by the agency, as the 10-day custody granted by the Principal Sessions and District...
Beijing/Hong Kong: The death toll in a deadly fire in multiple high-rise towers in Hong Kong has risen to 55, with 279 people still missing, Chinese official media reports said Thursday. Three men have been arrested for suspected manslaughter in the fire that broke out...
New Delhi: Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal Thursday informed of a meeting with Helene Budliger Artieda, State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Switzerland, where they discussed investment opportunities for the pharmaceutical sector. Artieda is on a visit to India along with a pharma delegation from Switzerland....
Kolkata: The names of the electorate in the Assembly constituencies in and around Kolkata do not match the 2002 voter list, sources in the office of Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal said. Currently, digitisation of the enumeration forms for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)...
Washington: The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Thursday announced an immediate suspension of all immigration requests from Afghan nationals, just hours after a targeted attack, allegedly by an individual from Kabul, on National Guard members in Washington, close to the White House. In a...
European leaders did what they are known to be good at – a brand of diplomacy aimed at antagonizing neither...
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Far-Right politics has claimed yet another South American country – Chile - with the recent victory of the ultraconservative lawyer,...
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Bangladesh has once again been gripped by violent unrest fol lowing the death of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi, deepen...
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On December 17, Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked the Lok Sabha to send the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee For...
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