Bhubaneswar/Baleshwar: The flood situation in Odisha improved Friday, with the water level in all major rivers receding, though nearly 2 lakh people in 303 villages are still affected in two districts of the state, officials said. As many as 1,90,974 people of 241 villages in...
New Delhi: Hindutva influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj was detained from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh Friday, hours after Delhi Police assured CJP protesters that he would be arrested within 72 hours for allegedly assaulting the father of a student in July, officials said. Several teams were deployed...
New Delhi: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) representatives Friday said the Delhi Police has assured that Swatantra Bharadwaj, the man accused of assaulting the father of student activist Nishu Azad during a protest at Jantar Mantar, will be arrested within 72 hours. The assurance came a...
Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Friday successfully launched its advanced Earth observation satellite EOS-05 aboard the GSLV-F17 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, adding a significant new capability to the country’s space-based monitoring system. The 51.7-metre GSLV-F17 lifted off from...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday held that the Bar Council of India (BCI) has no statutory power to regulate the conduct of law students, observing that it was for educational institutions to take action against students in accordance with their own regulatory norms. A...
Washington: The United States has warned that employment-based first-preference green cards for Indians could become unavailable within weeks because of heavy demand, adding fresh pressure to an already severe backlog that has left another major category closed to Indian applicants. The State Department, in its...
Ayodhya (UP): Air Marshal (retd) Jeetendra Mishra, who headed the Western Air Command during Operation Sindoor, was appointed the first CEO of the Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust Wednesday, officials said. Mishra's name was selected from a shortlist of three candidates picked from 5,585...
Ayodhya: Retired Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra is set to become the first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ayodhya’s Ram Temple, people familiar with the Trust’s decision said Wednesday. The former officer held several commanding positions in the Indian Air Force and was the chief of...
Dubai: United States military struck targets in Iran Tuesday as hostilities flared after a month without military action. Iran fired missiles and drones in response, Iranian semiofficial media said. The Fars and Tasnim news agencies, seen as close to Iran's security forces, reported late Tuesday...
Kyiv/New York: An Indian national has been killed in a wave of intensified Russian attacks on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Tuesday. He said on X that the Indian was among 12 killed in drone and missile strikes on several targets across Ukraine in five...
Banning books by governments does not surprise much since this has been going on across the world since long. But...
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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in its latest report released recently has castigated India for...
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Climate justice should become one of the most important points when discussing climate change. The harsh reality of human-induced climate...
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A foreign outlet interviewed me this week and at the end of it, after we had wrapped up, the interviewer...
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