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New Delhi: Parliament's Monsoon session, which concluded Thursday, saw frequent disruptions that overshadowed legislative business, with the House losing over 84 hours to forced adjournments, the highest in the 18th Lok Sabha. The month-long session that started July 21 had 21 sittings with 37 hours...

New Delhi: New Delhi has taken note of reports about China starting the construction of a mega dam on the lower reaches of Yarlung Tsangpo River (upper reaches of Brahmaputra) in Tibet, which the external affairs minister recently took up with the Chinese foreign minister...

Imphal:  The Kuki-Zo Council (KZC), apex body of the Kuki-Zo tribal community in Manipur, Thursday slammed former Chief Minister N. Biren Singh for his social media post in which he termed Myanmar nationals as "illegal entrants". The KZC expressed its deep concern "over the deliberate...

Moscow:  External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar, Thursday said that India's oil purchase from the US has been consistently increasing, as the August 27 deadline set by the Donald Trump administration to impose additional 25 per cent tariffs on India for buying Russian energy inches...

Mumbai: The upcoming film ‘Ajey: The Untold Story of a Yogi’ will be seen by the Bombay High Court, and will thereafter decide on Monday on the reasons or objections raised for the rejection of the film communicated by the CBFC to the Petitioner. The...

New Delhi: Railways and Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Thursday that the Online Gaming Bill is about protecting society while encouraging e-sports and online social game creators as engines of innovation. The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, passed by the...

New Delhi: India and Pakistan won't engage in any bilateral sporting clash, but the cricket team will not be stopped from playing the multi-lateral Asia Cup next month, the Sports Ministry said Thursday. The ministry unveiled the new policy with regard to India's international engagements...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday said it was "impossible" that in a continuing marriage a husband or a wife could say they want to be independent of their partner. If anybody wanted to be independent, they ought not enter matrimony, a bench of Justices...

New Delhi: Calling it a recipe for 'insidious decay' of the Constitution, former Law Minister and Rajya Sabha member Kapil Sibal Thursday deprecated the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025, aimed at checking tainted heads of governments from running their administrations from jail. “If they manage...

New Delhi: The GoM of state ministers on GST rate rationalisation Thursday accepted the Centre's proposal to move to a two-slab structure of 5 and 18 per cent. Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and convenor of rate rationalisation GoM Samrat Choudhary said the six-member state ministerial...