New Delhi: Air India Wednesday completed the inspection of the locking mechanism of fuel control switches in its Boeing 787 planes and did not find any issues, according to an airline official. Monday, aviation watchdog DGCA directed airlines to inspect the fuel switch locking system...
Damascus: Syrian government officials and leaders in the Druze religious minority announced Wednesday a renewed ceasefire after days of clashes that have threatened to unravel the country's postwar political transition and have drawn intervention by Syria's powerful neighbour, Israel. It was not immediately clear if...
New Delhi: India achieved a significant milestone in strengthening its air defence capabilities with the successful trial of the indigenous ‘Akash Prime’ air defence system Wednesday. The Indian Army conducted the test at an altitude of around 15,000 feet in the Ladakh sector. The Akash...
New Delhi: For a third time in a row, advocate Mathews J. Nedumpara, along with other co-petitioners, has filed a writ petition before the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Delhi Police to register an FIR in relation to the incident of alleged recovery...
New Delhi: Cabinet Wednesday approved Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana for a period of six years, covering 100 districts with an annual outlay of Rs 24,000 crore. The programme, announced in the Union Budget, will converge 36 existing schemes and increase adoption of crop diversification...
New Delhi: A bill that seeks to preserve and protect geoheritage sites and geo-relics is among the eight new draft legislations the government plans to introduce in the Monsoon session of Parliament beginning Monday. Among the bills planned for the Monsoon session are the National...
Tehran: The Indian mission in Iran has advised its citizens to consider the evolving situation before undertaking non-essential travel to the country. The Indian embassy in Iran also advised the citizens to continue to monitor the latest regional developments and follow updated advisories issued by...
New Delhi: A 24-member Sri Lankan delegation met Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri in New Delhi Wednesday and discussed the deepening bilateral ties between the two nations. The delegation, including 24 leaders from across 14 political parties of Sri Lanka, began their two-week visit to India...
Bokaro: Two Maoists were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in the dense forests of Birhordera under the Gomia police station limits in Jharkhand's Bokaro district early Wednesday morning, police officials said. A jawan of the CRPF’s elite CoBRA-209 battalion also died in...
New Delhi: Abdelfattah Mehdi, brother of Talal Abdo Mehdi, who was allegedly murdered by Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya in 2017, has asserted that there can be no pardon for the crime. He said that Nimisha Priya has to be executed. Abdelfattah also expressed firmly the...
The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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By Dilip Cherian The litany of extensions continues. The latest is Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, whose tenure the Modi...
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The angry young generation is rising in protest in India, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland and Serbia, to name a...
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