New Delhi: Former Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar, dancer Shobana Chandrakumar, actor Anant Nag and Vice Chancellor of prestigious King George's Medical University Soniya Nityanand were among 68 eminent personalities conferred with the coveted Padma awards by President Droupadi Murmu Tuesday. A total...
Beijing: Five people were killed and six others reported missing after an explosion rocked one of the largest chemical plants in China Tuesday, generating a huge fireball and sending plumes of smoke hundreds of feet into the air. The explosion took place at the state-owned...
New Delhi: India's FDI inflows increased to $81.04 billion in FY 2024-25, marking a 14 per cent increase from $71.28 billion in FY 2023–24, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday. There has been a steady rise in...
Washington: The Trump administration is asking federal agencies to cancel contracts with Harvard University worth about $100 million, a senior administration official said Tuesday. The government already has cancelled more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants for the Ivy League school, which has pushed...
Jammu: The Border Security Force (BSF) Tuesday said it targeted 76 Pakistani border outposts and 42 forward defence locations (FDLs) and destroyed three terrorist launch pads in strong retaliation to unprovoked firing and shelling by Pakistani Rangers along the International Border (IB) in the Jammu...
New Delhi: India is likely to receive above-normal rainfall amounting to 108 per cent of the long-period average in June, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Tuesday. The weather office said the country may receive 106 per cent of the long-period average rainfall of 87...
New Delhi: The US Embassy in India Tuesday warned international students studying in the US that if they "drop out, skip classes, or leave your programme of study" without informing the school, then their student visas may be revoked. The Embassy in a post on...
Singapore: Singapore strongly condemns all acts of terrorism and stands with India against the menace, a senior minister of the city-state told an all-party Indian parliamentary delegation Tuesday. The delegation, led by JD(U) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Kumar Jha, which arrived here from South Korea,...
Pahalgam: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday held a special Cabinet meeting in Pahalgam, which was shaken by a deadly terror attack last month, to give a clear message that the government will not be "intimidated by cowardly acts of terror". After the...
Chandigarh: A suspected Khalistani terrorist died in a blast while retrieving explosive material from a vacant area on the Majitha road bypass in Punjab's Amritsar Tuesday, police said. The intensity of the explosion, which took place around 9:30 am, was such that both arms of...
By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of...
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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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