New Delhi: Delhi government has banned private BS III petrol and BS IV diesel vehicles, prohibited the entry of interstate non-electric-CNG buses, certain categories of construction activities, and staggered government office timings, as the city choked under 'severe' category of air pollution Friday morning. The...
New Delhi: India Friday said unilateral trade measures in the name of climate action are "discriminatory, harm multilateral cooperation" and go against the principles of the UN climate change convention. Making an intervention in the presidential consultations on 'unilateral measures' at COP29 in Baku, India...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to explain the rationale behind a provision which entitles only those women, who adopt a child below the age of three months, to seek maternity leave benefits. The apex court was hearing a plea challenging the...
New Delhi: A joint operation by anti-narcotics agencies led to the seizure of about 700 kg of drugs and the arrest of eight Iranian nationals from Indian territorial waters off the Gujarat coast around Porbandar Friday. The street value of the seized Methamphetamine, a synthetic...
Ranchi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was stranded in Jharkhand's Deoghar airport for nearly two hours Friday after his special IAF aircraft developed a snag, flew back to Delhi in another plane, officials said. Modi was supposed to return to New Delhi on the IAF...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday hailed tribal icon Birsa Munda on his birth anniversary and said he sacrificed everything to protect the honour and glory of the motherland. Born in 1875 in present-day Jharkhand, Munda had challenged British rule and is credited with...
Colombo: Sri Lanka's National People's Power of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake Friday swept the parliamentary elections by winning a two-thirds majority, and also dominating the Jaffna electoral district – the heartland of the nation's Tamil minority. The NPP coalition, which contested under the Malimawa (compass)...
New York: US President-elect Donald Trump is handing over the Health Department to the eccentric scion of the Kennedy clan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who advocates unconventional ideas including opposition to vaccines. Naming Kennedy Jr. the next Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Trump made...
Washington: US President-elect Donald Trump has said his administration will focus on ending the Russia-Ukraine war, as he lamented the killing of people in the conflict. He also said his administration will also work on bringing peace to West Asia. “We're going to work on...
New Delhi: India Thursday said developed countries must commit to providing at least $1.3 trillion each year until 2030 to developing nations and that the new climate finance package, being negotiated at the UN climate conference in Azerbaijan, cannot become an 'investment goal'. Speaking on...
The infidelity of the Nvidia co-founder, Jensen Huang, the AI tech giant company’s CEO, who recently admitted he had been...
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The quality of air that people across cities in India have been breathing on Deepabali nights for the past few...
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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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