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...
Tehran: The death toll from Israeli strikes across Iran over the past 12 days has reached 606, with 5,332 others injured, Iran's Health Minister Mohammad-Reza Zafarghandi said Tuesday. Zafarghandi described the past 24 hours as witnessing the "most horrific attacks and aggressions" by Israel since...
Beijing: NSA Ajit Doval Tuesday called on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to hold perpetrators, organisers, and financiers of cross-border terror to account, widely seen as a demand to act against Pakistan-backed terrorism. In his address at a conclave of top security officials of the...
Revolting against oppression and seeking freedom is ingrained in human nature, something that a repressive regime finds out sooner or...
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US President Donald Trump, who had comfortably defeated his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in the recent presidential election and exuded...
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Months ahead of the Assembly polls in Bihar, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on 28 June launched a ‘special...
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We marked the 50th anniversary of the Emergency a few days ago. Another anniversary, this time the 75th, went relatively...
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