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New Delhi: The Finance Ministry is closely watching developments in West Asia but is not worried about crude oil prices, government sources said. The government has tools to deal with volatile crude oil prices, sources said. India has seen much higher crude oil prices, crude...

New Delhi: Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan Friday said the current geopolitical environment is in a "flux" and every nation is hedging a bet due to "this uncertain kind of a future". His remarks at an event hosted by the Society of Indian...

New Delhi: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk said he and other protesters from Ladakh would sit on an indefinite fast from Saturday since they have not received any response from the government over their demand of meeting the President, prime minister or the Union home minister....

New Delhi: Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal AP Singh Friday said the IAF is aiming to have its entire inventory produced in India by 2047 under the indigenisation programme even as he asserted that Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd must produce 24 Tejas light combat...

New Delhi: Criminal cases should not be slapped against journalists merely because their writings are perceived as criticism of the government, the Supreme Court said Friday. A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and S V N Bhatti said in democratic nations, the freedom to express...

Dantewada: Fourteen Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region Friday, a senior police official said. The gunfight broke out at around 1 pm in the forest between Thulthuli and Nendur villages in Abhujmaad on the Narayanpur-Dantewada inter-district border, Inspector...

New Delhi: Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu will pay a five-day visit to India beginning Monday with an aim to reset ties that came under some strain since November last year. Though the Maldivian president attended Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony in June, it will...

New Delhi: India Friday announced that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to Pakistan to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in mid-October. The announcement was made by external affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. The last Indian external affairs minister to...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of pleas seeking review of its judgment which held that states are constitutionally empowered to make sub-classifications within the Scheduled Castes for granting reservation. A seven-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices B...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Friday questioned the “tearing hurry” on the part of the lieutenant governor's office for holding the polls for the sixth member of the MCD's standing committee and "interfering" with the electoral process. A bench of Justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan...