Guwahati: Union Home Minister Amit Shah exuded confidence Tuesday that AFSPA will soon be revoked from entire Assam. He said improved law and order and peace accords with militant outfits during the last six years have already led to its partial withdrawal in the state....
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Centre to apprise it about the views on the issue of protection of interest of citizens till the colonial-era penal law on sedition is reconsidered by an appropriate forum. A bench headed by Chief Justice N V...
Colombo: At least five people, including an MP, were killed in Sri Lanka, with over 200 others injured in the wake of the violence in the island nation, which also led to a number of houses belonging to resigned Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and other...
Cuttack: The ongoing Puri Heritage Corridor construction work might have damaged the 800-year-old Jagannath Temple, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) informed the Orissa High Court here Monday. The ASI also said that the Odisha government project was being carried out without valid permission from...
New Delhi: The basic issue with China remains the resolution of the boundary question. However, Beijing’s intent has been to keep it ‘alive’, Army Chief General Manoj Pande said Monday. General Pande asserted that Indian troops are adequately deployed to deal with any situation along...
New Delhi: Asani, the severe cyclonic storm in the Bay of Bengal, packing gale force winds up to 120 km per hour, was moving towards coastal Andhra Pradesh and Odisha at a speed of 25 km per hour Monday, but expected to weaken gradually over...
Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine): At least 60 people are feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional Governor Serhiy Gaidai said Sunday. He said Russian forces dropped a bomb Saturday afternoon on the...
Havana: A powerful explosion at a luxury hotel in central Havana has killed at least 22 people, with 64 people injured, the Cuban Presidential Office said in an update Saturday. President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who visited the site of the blast and a local hospital, said:...
Baliapal: The possible landfall of Cyclone Asani in Odisha has created fear and apprehension in the minds of the farmers in several districts across the state. The farmers are a worried lot as Rabi crops are slowly ripening and harvesting is on in some parts...
Bhubaneswar: A low-pressure area formed Friday over the South Andaman Sea is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm and reach the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha shores by May 8, India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director-General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra informed. The low-pressure area is very likely to move northwestwards...
By Aakar Patel Next week, on 3 November, America will have its midterm election. It is so called because it...
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By Dilip Cherian Five extensions in three months, including those of Cabinet Secretary T.V. Somanathan and Home Secretary Govind Mohan,...
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United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s second visit to India has ruffled quite a few feathers in New Delhi....
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By Aakar Patel The three democratic tools available to us are the vote, the court and protest. The only one...
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