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PRATYUSH KUMAR DASH, OP Aizawl: In a moment of historic significance, Mizoram’s capital Aizawl is now connected to the national railway network with the completion of Bairabi–Sairang Broad Gauge (BG) railway line, an engineering marvel, marking a milestone in the development of infrastructure in the...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to India in December, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said Friday. Ushakov said President Putin will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in China's Tianjin city to...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday directed the Union government to file its reply within a week on a plea seeking to restrain cross-border deportation of Bengali-speaking migrants without prior citizenship verification. A bench, headed by Justice Surya Kant, was hearing a public interest litigation...

Tokyo: India and Japan Saturday signed the implementing arrangement for the Chandrayaan-5 mission, a joint exploration of the polar region of the moon by the space agencies of the two countries. The Implementing Arrangement between the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Japan Aerospace Exploration...

New Delhi: Poll authorities in Bihar have issued notices to nearly three lakh electors with "doubtful citizenship", officials said Friday. The three lakh electors are among the 7.24 crore people who have found their names in the draft electoral rolls published August 1 as part...

Dehradun: Five people were killed and eleven others went missing as heavy rains and a series of cloudbursts wreaked havoc in various districts of Uttarakhand early Friday, triggering landslides that damaged houses and left people buried under mounds of rubble, officials said. Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Tehri,...

Bhubaneswar: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said Friday that the role of Parliamentary committees has been growing as they work above the divide of partisan politics at a time when the declining level of discussion and dialogue in Parliament and state Assemblies has caused concerns....

Tokyo: Japan Friday set an investment target of 10 trillion yen in India over a decade and the two sides firmed up a mega roadmap to bolster cooperation in several key areas such as critical minerals, defence and technology, in decisions that came amid economic...

New Delhi: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal Friday said India is negotiating a bilateral trade agreement with the US, indicating that the steep 50 per cent tariff imposed by America on Indian goods will not have much impact on the country's economy. "If somebody...

New Delhi: Despite repeated allegations of "vote theft" and "voter list manipulation" from the Opposition parties, the Election Commission of India (ECI) Friday revealed that only 117 claims and objections were received from political parties during the period from August 1-29. This contrasts sharply with...