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New Delhi: The Japanese government plans to double the target for private-sector investment in India to 10 trillion yen ($68 billion) over the next 10 years, according to a media report from Tokyo. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are expected...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday restrained Assam Police from taking any coercive action against senior journalist Siddharth Varadarajan and other journalists, including the consulting editor, working with the web portal "The Wire" in connection with an FIR lodged against them over a news article....

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday modified its earlier directions for the capture and complete relocation of stray dogs in the Delhi-NCR region. In a fresh order, the three-judge Bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and N.V. Anjaria directed that stray dogs picked up...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court  Friday refused to urgently list for hearing an interim plea challenging mandatory registration of all waqfs, including waqf-by-users under the UMEED portal. The Centre had on June 6 launched the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995 (UMEED)...

Thiruvananthapuram: The political storm around Youth Congress leader and first-time MLA Rahul Mamkootathil shows no signs of abating after the BJP and the CPI-M demanded his resignation over serious allegations against him by a woman, while the grand old party has rejected such demands. Thursday,...

New Delhi: In a major security breach Friday, a man entered the Parliament House complex by climbing a tree and scaling the wall. According to sources, the incident occurred around 6.30 a.m. Officials said that the intruder reached the Garuda gate of the new Parliament...

New Delhi: A large number of animal activists and caregivers assembled at the Jantar Mantar here Friday ahead of the Supreme Court's verdict on the relocation of stray dogs. Animal activists are up in arms against a recent apex court ruling directing the removal of...

New Delhi: India is set to celebrate the second National Space Day Saturday, honouring the country's journey from satellites to human spaceflight. Union Minister of State for Science and Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh, said in an X post that August 23, under the leadership of...

Patna: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting in Bodh Gaya Friday, Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Yadav launched a scathing attack on the BJP and the PM. In a post on his official X handle, Tejashwi Yadav shared a video...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is set to pronounce August 22 the order on a plea to stay its August 11 direction to permanently relocate stray dogs from streets to dog shelters in Delhi-NCR. A three-judge special bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and...