New Delhi: India Friday strongly urged Iran to avoid attacks on commercial shipping and seafarers under any circumstances with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar conveying to his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi that New Delhi condemns any such strike by any party. Jaishankar said this during...
Glasgow: India's Asmita Dey produced a spirited comeback to clinch the women's 48kg judo gold medal, defeating Canada's Heidi Quach in a dramatic golden score contest at the Commonwealth Games here Friday. The 23-year-old from Tripura found herself on the back foot early in the...
New Delhi: Days after the US Senate cleared a new Bill that would authorise President Donald Trump to impose tariffs of up to 100 per cent on India, China and other major buyers of Russian oil and gas, New Delhi Friday said it was closely...
Cape Canaveral: A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago. The rocket's upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon Wednesday, carving out a crater and sending up a...
Kathmandu: Nepalese authorities Friday imposed an indefinite curfew in parts of Saptari district in Madhesh province bordering India after protests broke out over the recent communal violence in neighbouring Sunsari. President Ram Chandra Paudel and Prime Minister Balendra Shah have expressed deep concern over the...
New Delhi: India as a whole is most likely to witness below-normal rainfall during the second half of the southwest monsoon from August to September, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in its monthly forecast issued Friday. The rainfall is expected to be less than...
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) confirmed Friday that 139 Indian nationals have been released from the Russian Army till now, and work is underway to get the remaining two dozen Indians released soon. "We have been following up with the Russian side...
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The Congress Friday lashed out at the Modi government over alleged sharing of an Odisha medical examination question paper on WhatsApp, saying merely mandating stronger punishments or designating courts as 'fast-track' is not sufficient, and a more honest conversation is needed on corruption...
New Delhi: Petrol prices in Delhi would have risen to around Rs 125 per litre during the recent West Asian crisis without ethanol blending, the government said Friday, claiming the programme helped consumers save nearly Rs 30 per litre by cushioning the impact of the...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday congratulated Indian weightlifter Lovepreet Singh and discus thrower Seema Kaliramna for winning silver and bronze medals, respectively at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, praising their determination and wishing them success in the future. Lovepreet produced a spirited performance...
A debate is spreading across India. The Cockroach students movement recently succeeded within a few days at forcing change that...
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Better late than never. Two days after the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the Supreme Court has stated...
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A quote from Milan Kundera goes thus: The final stage of a cultural movement is satire. When the people laugh...
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By Aakar Patel Many are puzzled by the size of the current protests and the speed with which they sprang...
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