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Constitutional values face serious challenges: Kharge
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday, August 15, said India’s constitutional values, democratic institutions and social harmony have faced “serious challenges” over the last 10 years, as he called for…
- India
I need your help: PM Modi’s Independence Day appeal to youth
New Delhi: India is celebrating its 80th Independence Day on Saturday, August 15, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi hoisted the national flag at the historic Red Fort in Delhi. In a first…
- India
President address: Students architects of future, reforms underway
New Delhi: In a first, the full version of Vande Mataram, recently accorded the same legal protection as the national anthem, was played ahead of and after President Droupadi Murmu’s address to…
- Middle East
Telangana worker dies in Saudi Arabia, NRI offers Rs 40,000 aid
Hyderabad: An Non-Resident Indian (NRI) entrepreneur has provided Rs 40,000 to support the family of a Telangana worker who died in a road accident in Saudi Arabia, helping them meet expenses to…
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NEET paper leak: Delhi court allows CBI plea for further probe
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday, August 14, allowed the CBI’s plea seeking further investigation in the NEET paper leak case. The agency’s prosecutor told the court that fresh digital evidence…
- India
Congress’ Meloni jibe: MEA harps India-Italy ties, BJP hits out
New Delhi: A day after an exchange between two senior Congress leaders during a party event sparked a controversy involving Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, India on Friday, August 14, stressed that…
- India
What have I done: Jinnah’s reported reaction to Partition
New Delhi: As Partition tore through the subcontinent in 1947, millions were forced to flee across a newly drawn border amid communal violence, killings and looting, and it was against this backdrop…
- Telangana
BJP’s post triggers online trolling war between Congress, BRS
Hyderabad: A single social media post by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Telangana unit triggered a wave of trolling, sparking a back-and-forth between Bharat Rashtra Samithi and Congress as both parties used CM…
- Entertainment
Samay Raina gets last laugh as SC quashes all FIRs against him
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday, August 14, cancelled all FIRs filed against standup comedian Samay Raina and four others over allegedly insensitive remarks against persons with disabilities. Raina, along with…
- India
US flags India among 40 nations aiding China’s tariff evasion
Hyderabad: India has been named in a Tier 1 grouping of countries flagged by the White House over the alleged rerouting of Chinese goods into the American market to dodge higher US tariffs,…
- India
Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian to attend BRICS summit in Delhi
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian will be traveling to New Delhi to attend the BRICS summit, according to news agency ANI, citing Iranian sources. Pezeshkian’s participation assumes significance as India is chairing the…
- Kolkata
RG Kar case: Neighbour held over ‘hurried cremation’ of victim
Kolkata: Sanjeev Mukherjee, another co-accused in the conspiracy of the hurried cremation of the RG Kar rape-murder victim’s body in August 2024 at a crematorium at Panihati in North 24 Parganas district…
- India
SC stays Madras HC order on jobs for Karur stampede victims’ kin
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday, August 14, stayed an order of the Madras High Court which quashed Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay’s order providing government jobs to relatives of people…
- India
UP: Tailor rapes 15-year-old girl in Muzaffarnagar
Muzaffarnagar: A tailor allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl who had come to get some clothes stitched here after shutting the shop from the outside, police said on Friday, August 14,. The incident…
- India
From forests to fashion: Former women Maoists walk the ramp
Raipur: As many as nine surrendered women Maoists, who once wore green fatigues and moved through the dense forests of Bastar, walked the ramp with beaming smiles at an event here showcasing…