Kathmandu: A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal in the early hours of Friday, with tremors felt in Bihar, Siliguri, and other neighbouring areas in India, shaking homes and waking residents. The National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre confirmed that the epicentre was in Bhairavkunda, Sindhupalchowk...
Washington: President Donald Trump says he plans to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting Tuesday, in addition to doubling the 10 per cent universal tariff charged on imports from China. Posting on Truth Social Thursday, Trump said that illicit drugs such as fentanyl are...
Mumbai/Pune: Police Thursday announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for information about the history-sheeter who allegedly raped a 26-year-old woman inside a bus at Pune's Swargate bus station and deployed drones as part of their manhunt, officials said. Amid the frantic police efforts to...
Hyderabad: Rescue teams intensified operation to rescue eight persons trapped in the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel in Telangana’s Nagarkurnool district Thursday, the sixth day after the partial collapse of the under-construction tunnel. Teams of the Army, the Navy, the National Disaster Response Force...
Rawalpindi: Pakistan's campaign in the Champions Trophy ended on a winless note after their match against Bangladesh was called off without a ball being bowled due to incessant rain here Thursday. The match was effectively a dead-rubber, with both teams already out of contention after...
Kolkata: Dismissing reports of his so-called 'rift' with Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, the party's MP and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday asserted that he remains a "loyal soldier of the TMC", and considered the party supremo as his leader. Addressing a gathering...
Khan Younis: Israel will not withdraw from a strategic corridor in the Gaza Strip as called for by the ceasefire, an official said Thursday. Israel's refusal could spark a crisis with Hamas and key mediator Egypt at a sensitive moment for the fragile truce. The...
Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday claimed that an online agency appointed by the BJP has become active in West Bengal these days to misappropriate the voter list so that voters from other states can vote in the 2026 Assembly elections. “As far as the...
Mumbai: NCP-SP Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule Thursday flagged an old letter written by the Swargate bus depot chief in Maharashtra's Pune to the police regarding the security situation of the depot. A woman was sexually assaulted on a bus at the depot. She also...
Hyderabad: Polling was underway for three seats of Telangana Legislative Council from teachers’ and graduates’ constituencies Thursday. Voting commenced at 8 a.m. in the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar graduates’ and teachers’ constituencies and the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda teachers’ constituency. The Election Commission officials said the polling was underway in a...
By Aakar Patel Attacks on Bengali Christians and their churches have begun following the BJP's victory in the state. Last...
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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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