New Delhi: The government has not issued any order to unblock Chinese social media platform TikTok, official sources said late Friday. Reports to the contrary started surfacing after some people were able to access the TikTok website on their desktop browsers. "The Government of India...
New York/Washington: President Donald Trump has nominated his longtime aide Sergio Gor, who is currently the Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, as the next US Ambassador to India. In a social media post Friday, Trump said Gor, 38, is a "great friend,...
New Delhi: The CBI has filed a case against Reliance Communications and searched its premises Saturday in connection with an alleged bank fraud that caused a loss of over Rs 2,000 crore to the State Bank of India, officials said. The agency is conducting searches...
Gopeshwar (U'Khand): Heavy rain overnight in Tharali town of Chamoli district sent a rain drain flooding and depositing debris at several houses and markets, an official said Saturday. Tunri Gadhera, a dry canal that channels excess rainwater, also filled the tehsil office with debris before...
Thiruvananthapuram: India is all set to witness football history this November, as global icon Lionel Messi and the reigning FIFA World Cup champions Argentina are scheduled to arrive in Kerala for a friendly match. Taking to his social media account Kerala Sports Minister V. Abdurahiman...
Patna: Eight people were killed and four others injured in a head-on collision between a mini-van and a truck on the outskirts of Patna Saturday, police said. The accident took place in the early hours in Shahjahanpur near the Patna-Nalanda border, they said. Among the...
Toronto: Canada is dropping retaliatory tariffs to match US tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday. Carney said Canada will include the carve-out that the US has on Canadian goods under the 2020 free trade...
New Delhi: ISRO Friday unveiled a model of the Bharatiya Antariksh Station (BAS) module during the two-day National Space Day celebrations that began in New Delhi. India plans to launch the first module of the BAS, its own home-built space station, by 2028, marking its...
New Delhi: Days after Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir's nuclear threat against India and the description of his own country as a "dumper truck", Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said the remarks were a reflection of a "predatory" mentality and a confession of Islamabad's...
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu Friday gave assent to the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, a day after it was cleared by the Parliament, bringing sweeping restrictions on money-based online gaming platforms in India. The new law imposes stringent penalties on those...
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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