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...
Patna: The Bihar Police Headquarters Thursday issued a statewide high alert after intelligence inputs suggested the entry of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operatives into the state through the Nepal border. According to a senior official of Bihar Police, three suspected terrorists -- Hasnain Ali (Rawalpindi), Adil...
Kyiv: A mass Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's capital early Thursday killed at least three people and injured 24, local authorities said. Among the dead was a 14-year-old girl, said Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv's city administration, citing preliminary information. The numbers...
New Delhi: The government Thursday extended duty-free import of cotton by three more months till December 31 to support textile exporters facing steep 50 per cent tariffs in the US. Earlier, August 18, the Finance Ministry had allowed duty exemption on cotton imports from August...
New York/Washington: The Trump administration is planning to change the H1B programme, the most sought-after non-immigrant visa among Indian IT professionals, and also bring changes to the Green Card process, US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has said. “I'm involved in changing the H1B programme....
New York/Washington: A shooter who opened fire at a Minneapolis Catholic School, killing two children, had ‘Nuke India' written on one of the guns, according to video footage of the alleged arsenal used by him. The shooter, identified as Robin Westman, 23, from Minnesota, opened...
By Aakar Patel Next week, on 3 November, America will have its midterm election. It is so called because it...
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By Dilip Cherian Five extensions in three months, including those of Cabinet Secretary T.V. Somanathan and Home Secretary Govind Mohan,...
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United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s second visit to India has ruffled quite a few feathers in New Delhi....
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By Aakar Patel The three democratic tools available to us are the vote, the court and protest. The only one...
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