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Amritsar: The Indian Army Monday showed a demonstration of how Indian air defence systems, including the Akash missile system, saved the holiest shrine of Sikhism, the Golden Temple, here and cities of Punjab from Pakistani missile and drone attacks during Operation Sindoor. The Army also...

New Delhi: The Central government has flagged a widely circulating social media post on blood as false and misleading, warning citizens not to fall for it. The message falsely claims that the government has launched a nationwide “Blood on Call” service accessible via the number...

New Delhi: Government is considering amendments to the laws governing the nuclear power domain, including the sectoral regulator, to allow participation of private sector as India eyes to produce 100 GW atomic energy by 2047. Government sources said amendments were being considered to the Atomic...

New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor Monday declined to join issue with some Opposition parties, including his own, over the government's choice of MPs from their ranks for all-party delegations to foreign capitals following Operation Sindoor. "I am absolutely not getting into that subject," he...

New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri Monday briefed a parliamentary committee on the India-Pakistan military conflict in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack. The meeting of Parliament's Standing Committee on External Affairs, chaired by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, was attended by members, including the...

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested from Kerala a militant of a banned insurgent group involved in the brutal killing of a woman and looting of houses in a village in Manipur's Jiribam district last year, officials said Monday. Rajkumar Maipaksana was...

New Delhi: The BJP Monday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of forcing TMC MP Yusuf Pathan to opt out from the multi-party diplomatic delegation, terming it “unfortunate”. TMC sources said Pathan, named by the Centre in one of the delegations, has opted out...

Haryana-based YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra has been arrested by police on charges of espionage. She is accused of providing secret information about India to Pakistan. Following her arrest, several of her videos have gone viral on social media. One such video, filmed at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib...

Chandigarh/Lucknow: At least 12 persons, including a YouTuber, have been nabbed on the charges of spying for Pakistan in the past two weeks from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh with investigations pointing out that they were allegedly part of a Pakistan-linked espionage network operating in...

Prayagraj: Allahabad High Court Monday dismissed a plea of the Masjid committee against the survey ordered by a Sambhal court in the Shahi Jama Masjid and Harihar Temple dispute. The court said the order to appoint a court commissioner and the suit were maintainable. Justice...