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New Delhi: India Thursday strongly condemned the demolition of the Durga Mandir (temple) in Dhaka, criticising the role of Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in allowing the destruction and projecting it as a case of illegal land use. "We understand that extremists were clamouring for the...

New Delhi: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized 39 containers carrying 1,115 metric tonnes of Pakistani-origin goods, valued at nearly Rs 9 crore, that were being illegally imported into India by sea via Dubai, officials said Thursday. In two separate cases, these consignments...

Jammu: One terrorist was killed Thursday in an ongoing gunfight between the security forces and the terrorists in J&K’s Udhampur district’s Basantgarh area. Inspector General of Police (IGP), Jammu Zone, Bhim Sen Tuti said that four terrorists are believed to be trapped in the ongoing...

New Delhi: In a giant leap for India, IAF Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla Thursday scripted history by becoming the first from the country to enter the International Space Station (ISS). After a long and ardent wait of 41 years, India now has an astronaut in...

New Delhi: The government Thursday said data is being extracted from black boxes, and analysis of the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder is underway to reconstruct the sequence of events that led to the fatal crash of the Air India plane in Ahmedabad...

New Delhi: The government is moving ahead with plans to revive the long-stalled Tulbul Navigation Project, as part of a broader strategy to optimise the country's share of water from the western rivers under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), top official sources said. A detailed...

Dehradun: Relief and rescue efforts are underway in Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district with the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and state police rescue teams working assiduously to lift the victims from the accident zone. Till the last reports came in, two people have died in the...

New Delhi: Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke has urged the Canadian Federal government to declare the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, and any other groups involved in extortion and violence targeting Canadians of South Asian descent, as terrorist organisations under Canadian law. According to the Canadian media, Mayor...

New Delhi: Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla Thursday said he was learning to live in microgravity conditions "like a baby" and it was an amazing experience to float in vacuum as the Dragon spacecraft circled the Earth in its journey to dock at the International Space Station....

Jammu: Four Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists being tracked for a year are trapped in a forested area in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district with security forces attempting to neutralise them in rain and fog, officials said Thursday. The encounter broke out when a joint search party of...