Dubai: Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, confirmed Wednesday that the country's nuclear facilities had been “badly damaged” in American strikes over the weekend. Speaking on Al Jazeera, Baghaei refused to go into detail but conceded the strikes Sunday by American B-2 bombers using bunker-buster...
The Hague: President Donald Trump Wednesday, once again raised questions about America's commitment to defend its allies should they come under attack as he prepared to join a NATO summit in the Netherlands. Just as he did during his first term in office, Trump suggested...
New York: In a stunning victory, Indian-American lawmaker Zohran Kwame Mamdani defeated former governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary race for New York City mayor. Mamdani, son of renowned Indian filmmaker Mira Nair and Mahmood Mamdani, a Ugandan author of Indian ancestry, was declared...
New Delhi: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla scripted history by embarking on a space odyssey along with three others to the International Space Station as part of a commercial mission by Axiom Space Wednesday. The much-delayed Axiom-4 mission blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in...
Washington: US President Donald Trump strongly rejected a recent intelligence report which challenged the administration’s claim that US strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. The report by the US Defence Intelligence Agency disclosed by two American media outlets CNN and New York...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reiterated the commitment to strengthening the principles in the Constitution and working together to realise the nation’s vision of a “Viksit Bharat.” He said this Wednesday while marking 50 years of the imposition of the Emergency in the...
Dubai: A fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel appeared to hold Tuesday after initially faltering, and US President Donald Trump expressed frustration with both sides, saying they have fought “for so long and so hard” that they do not know what they are doing. Israel...
Mumbai: The Indian benchmark indices opened over 400 points up Wednesday amid positive global cues, as buying was seen in the IT, auto and pharma sectors in the early trade. At around 9.25 am, Sensex was trading 445.6 points or 0.54 per cent up at...
Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Tuesday committed to support Iran at all forums and discussed the rapidly evolving situation in West Asia with envoys from Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Pakistan foreign office expressed deep concern and alarm at the serious escalation in the security situation...
New Delhi: In a big relief for millions of people, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has raised the auto-settlement limit for advance claims (ASAC) from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh, Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said Tuesday. The move will enable withdrawal of...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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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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