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IndiGo passenger held for trying to open emergency exit mid-air

Agartala: A passenger on an IndiGo flight was arrested on Thursday at the Agartala airport for allegedly trying to open the emergency exit door of the aircraft midair and misbehaving with the…
Naidu’s arrest rocks AP assembly, TDP members suspended

Amaravati: The arrest of TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu in connection with the AP Skill Development Corporation scam rocked the Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Thursday with some members of the opposition party…

Ticket scam: Rs 2 cr worth valuables, Rs 76L cash seized from Hindutva activist

Bengaluru: Bengaluru Police Commissioner B. Dayananda said on Thursday that the special wing CCB sleuths, who are investigating the BJP MLA ticket scam, have seized Rs 2 crore worth of valuables, gold…
KTR inaugurates Eurofins’ BioPharma campus in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao inaugurated the Eurofins’ biopharma services campus at Genome Valley on Thursday, September 21. With headquarters in Belgium, Eurofins is the world leader in providing testing…
India-Canada row: Domestic IT companies adopt wait & watch approach

New Delhi: As the diplomatic ties between India and Canada further deteriorated on Thursday, domestic IT firms, especially those which have business and offices in Canada, remained in a state of caution,…
Hyderabad: 72 portable water tanks set up for Ganesh immersion

Hyderabad: Ahead of the Ganesh Visarjan festival, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has arranged portable, excavated small water tanks at 72 locations for the immersion of the Ganesh idols. The artificial…
History between India and Israel’s Haifa city ‘inspiring’: Mayor

Haifa: As the northern Israeli coastal city of Haifa on Thursday paid tributes to brave Indian soldiers who laid down their lives in the region during World War I to liberate the…

Canada’s allegations on separatist’s killing politically driven: India

India on Thursday said that Canada has not given any specific information about its allegations of New Delhi’s hand in the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, and they appear to…
Andhra HC grants bail to 79 TDP leaders in cases related to violence

Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday granted bail to 79 leaders of the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Punganur and Angallu violence cases. The court also directed the police…
Shots fired outside US embassy in Beirut: Embassy official

Beirut: Gunshots were fired outside the US embassy building in Beirut late on Wednesday, September 20, but no casualties were reported. According to Reuters, a spokesman for the US Embassy in Lebanon,…
Telangana: Higher edu a distant dream for minorities in Maheshwaram

Hyderabad: The Maheshwaram Assembly constituency faces a concerning shortage of higher education facilities, particularly in Muslim-majority areas, despite the constituency being represented by state education minister Sabitha Indra Reddy. Within the Balapur…
Bharatanatyam exponent Saroja Vaidyanathan dies from cancer at 86

New Delhi: Bharatanatyam dancer Saroja Vaidyanathan died at her residence here in the early hours of Thursday, just two days after she turned 86. “She was battling cancer for some time now…
Lalu Prasad Yadav watches ‘Launda Nach’ at Rabri Devi’s residence in Patna

Patna: RJD national President Lalu Prasad Yadav, who is recuperating after a kidney transplant, watched Bihar’s famous folk dance “Launda Nach” at former Chief Minister Rabdi Devi’s residence in Patna. The event…
Kashmir issue a challenge to region’s security: Saudi FM

Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s minister of foreign affairs, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, on Wednesday, September 20, said that the issue of Jammu and Kashmir constitutes one of the pressing challenges…
UK keen on welcoming IIT offshore campus, already in talks: British officials

New Delhi: The UK is keen on welcoming an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to set up an offshore campus in the country and some UK universities are already in talks with…