- India
COP27: India insists on new global climate finance target by 2024
New Delhi: At the ongoing UN climate summit, India has asserted that developing countries require a “substantive enhancement” in climate finance from rich countries by 2024 as the previously-set goal of USD…
- India
Gujarat Assembly polls: 10 candidates in AAP’s 14th list
Ahmedabad: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday released its 14th list of 10 candidates for the next month’s Assembly elections in Gujarat, taking the number of nominees declared so far to…
- India
Welcome UK court’s decision rejecting Nirav Modi’s appeal against extradition: MEA
New Delhi: India on Thursday welcomed a British court’s ruling rejecting fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi’s appeal against his extradition to India in connection with a bank loan fraud case. “We welcome the…
- India
SC stays execution of death penalty in rape-cum-murder case of minor
New Delhi: In a relief to a death row convict, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of a watchman who was convicted of killing a minor girl after sexually assaulting her…
- Delhi
Delhi air quality ‘poor’, max temp settles at 29.5 deg C
New Delhi: Air quality in the national capital was recorded in the ‘poor’ category on Thursday while the maximum temperature settled at 29.5 degrees Celsius. According to the Central Pollution Control Board,…
- Kashmir
Restore J-K’s statehood before elections: Altaf Bukhari
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood should be restored before the assembly elections are conducted, Apni Party chief Altaf Bukhari said here on Thursday. Bukhari also said under an elected government not only the…
- India
Activist Gautam Navlakha likely to be released from jail on Friday
Mumbai: Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case accused Gautam Navlakha, whose plea seeking to be placed under house arrest was allowed by the Supreme Court on Thursday, was not released from prison till late in…
- India
ED plea against Raut bail not taken up by HC on Thursday; hearing likely on Friday
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s plea seeking cancellation of bail granted to Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MP Sanjay Raut by a special court in a money laundering case could not be…
- World
SL President Ranil Wickremesinghe opposed to outside intervention
Colombo: President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday said Sri Lanka does not need outside intervention in its internal affairs, as he invited the country’s Tamil minority parties to hold talks next week to…
- India
India played role of troubleshooter during COVID-19, Russia-Ukraine conflict: Naqvi
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday said India has played the role of a “troubleshooter” during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war with an aim to ensure health…
- Telangana
Kasani Gnaneswar takes over as TDP president in Telangana
Hyderabad: Former MLC Kasani Gnaneswar on Thursday took over as the president of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Telangana. Gnaneswar assumed the responsibility in the presence of TDP Chief N Chandrababu…
- India
Bharat Jodo Yatra: Supriya Sule, other NCP leaders join Rahul Gandhi in Nanded
Nanded: Prominent Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders joined the Rahul Gandhi-led ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ of the Congress here this afternoon on the fourth day of its Maharashtra leg. महाराष्ट्र में #BharatJodoYatra में उमड़ा…
- Hyderabad
MP: Hyderabad-based trans woman duped by live-in partner, approaches police
Burhanpur (MP): A Hyderabad-based trans-woman has approached police here claiming that a local man who was her live-in partner fled after taking cash and jewellery worth Rs 12 lakh from her house.…