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Dehradun: Heavy rains and cloudbursts wreaked havoc in Uttarakhand early Friday, triggering landslides that damaged houses and buried several people under mounds of rubble in various districts, including Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Tehri. A house and a cowshed were buried under landslide debris in Mopata village...

Tokyo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday participated in the India-Japan Economic Forum in Tokyo alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. Addressing top industry leaders, PM Modi highlighted the strong economic partnership between the two countries and laid out a five-point roadmap to deepen bilateral cooperation....

New Delhi: As India’s Indian textile and apparel industry braces for US tariff impact in the coming months, mitigating factors include India’s strong presence in the cotton-based textile value chain, especially in the home textile segment, being the second largest supplier to the US, currency...

New Delhi: The government has approved the appointment of former Reserve Bank Governor Urjit Patel as Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a period of three years. He would replace K V Subramanian, whose services were terminated by the government six months...

Dehradun: Heavy rains and cloudbursts wreaked havoc in Uttarakhand early Friday, triggering landslides that damaged houses and buried several people under mounds of rubble in various districts, including Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Tehri. A house and a cowshed were buried under landslide debris in Mopata village...

New Delhi: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat Thursday asserted he had never stated that he would retire or someone else should retire at 75. The comments by Bhagwat put at rest speculation over his recent remarks on retirement of leaders which was seen as a reference...

New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat urged every Indian couple to have three children while answering questions of audiences during a programme “100 Varsh ki Sangh Yatra” Thursday, emphasising the need to maintain a sustainable fertility rate to prevent community extinction and...

New Delhi: India  Thursday announced that Dinesh K. Patnaik, presently Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain, has been appointed as the next High Commissioner to Canada. According to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Patnaik, a career diplomat belonging to the 1990 batch of the...

New Delhi:  Alleging that abuses were hurled at the late mother of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during Rahul Gandhi's ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra' in Bihar, the BJP Thursday asserted the Congress-led INDIA bloc will be "punished" by the people in the upcoming assembly polls. A delegation...

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Thursday launched a blistering attack on the Congress, alleging that it had compromised with the BJP on corruption cases. Addressing a meeting of AAP MLAs and municipal councillors in Delhi,...