New Delhi: India Tuesday sealed a mega deal with the US to procure 31 Predator high-altitude long-endurance drones from American defence major General Atomics under the foreign military sales route at a cost of nearly $4 billion to crank up Indian military's combat prowess along...
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar Tuesday slammed the practice of showing early trends on counting day by news channels as "nonsense". Addressing a press conference here, Kumar also said exit polls create a huge distraction by raising expectations and it was a matter...
New Delhi: Seven flights, including one bound for the United States, received bomb-threat messages through a social media handle Tuesday, prompting security agencies to undertake specific counter-terrorist drills at various airports, official sources said. The threats via microblogging platform X came a day after three...
New Delhi: The southwest monsoon has completely withdrawn from the country and the northeast monsoon has begun over southeast peninsular India, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Tuesday. This year, the southwest monsoon reached Kerala May 30 and covered the entire country by July 2....
New Delhi: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday announced three Artificial Intelligence Centres of Excellence (CoEs) focused on healthcare, agriculture and sustainable cities. The CoEs will be led by top educational institutions, in consortium with industry partners and startups. "The three CoEs in AI-‘healthcare,...
New Delhi: The BJP Tuesday appointed Baijayant Jay Panda, one of its vice-presidents, as the party's in-charge for the Assembly polls in Delhi. Ghaziabad MP Atul Garg will be the co-incharge. Panda, a Lok Sabha MP from Odisha, had earlier held organisational responsibilities for Delhi....
Mumbai: Notching a breakthrough, the Mumbai Police have detained three more persons in connection with the sensational killing of ex-Minister and Nationalist Congress Party leader Baba Ziauddin Siddique, officials said here Tuesday. They are: Harishkumar Balakram, hailing Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh, besides Gullu and Monu,...
Chennai: Intermittent, widespread rains lashed Chennai and other regions of Tamil Nadu Tuesday and the India Meteorological Department said the low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal has turned into a well-marked low-pressure area and is likely to become a depression. Civic authorities said there...
New Delhi: Assembly elections in Maharashtra will be held in a single phase November 20, and in Jharkhand in two phases November 13 and 20, and the results of both will be declared November 23, the Election Commission announced Tuesday. The Assemblies of Maharashtra and...
New Delhi: India Tuesday trashed Canada's attempts to link Indian agents with criminal gangs in that country with official sources rejecting Ottawa's claim that it shared evidence with New Delhi in the Nijjar case. The sources also rejected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegations that...
A debate is spreading across India. The Cockroach students movement recently succeeded within a few days at forcing change that...
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Better late than never. Two days after the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the Supreme Court has stated...
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A quote from Milan Kundera goes thus: The final stage of a cultural movement is satire. When the people laugh...
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By Aakar Patel Many are puzzled by the size of the current protests and the speed with which they sprang...
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