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- India
Hundreds of villages in Punjab, Himachal inundated; evacuation underway
Chandigarh: Hundreds of villages in Punjab located along the swollen Satluj and Beas rivers were inundated on Wednesday with the opening of floodgates of the crucial Bhakra and Pong dams as the…
- India
Maharashtra: Earthquake of magnitude 3.4 strikes Kolhapur
Kolhapur: An earthquake of magnitude 3.4 on the Richter scale struck Kolhapur in Maharashtra on Wednesday, the National Center for Seismology informed. The tremors were felt at 06:45:05 Indian standard time (IST),…
- World
Security beefed up outside Indian embassy in US amid call for Khalistani protests
Washington DC: The security has been beefed up outside the Indian Embassy in the US in the wake of protests called out by Khalistan supporters. The visuals showed a large number of…
- India
Infosys inks 5-year, 1.5bn euros deal with Liberty Global
Chennai: Software major Infosys Ltd on Tuesday said it has entered a five-year contract worth about 1.5 billion euros with the UK-based Liberty Global plc. In a regulatory filing, Infosys said the…
- India
Centre renames Nehru Memorial as Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library
New Delhi: The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has officially been renamed as the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library (PMML) Society with effect from Monday by the Centre. PMML vice-chairman A…
- India
Nitish Kumar to meet Kejriwal on Wednesday
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is expected to visit Delhi to meet Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday. Besides meeting the Delhi Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar will also meet other opposition…
- India
India greatly benefitted from Vajpayee’s leadership: PM Modi
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday paid homage to BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his death anniversary and said India greatly benefitted from his leadership. In tributes to the…
- Delhi
Yamuna again breaches danger-mark in Delhi
New Delhi: The water level in the Yamuna River has once again risen above the danger mark, reaching 205.39 meters at the Old Railway Bridge in Delhi on Tuesday. According to the…
- Middle East
Watch: Burj Khalifa lights up in Indian tricolour on I-Day
Abu Dhabi: Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest edifice, was emblazoned with the colours of the Indian national flag to celebrate the country’s Independence Day on Tuesday, August 15. In a video shared…
- India
Partition horrors: Veteran recalls travelling with bodies, finding money on corpses
Noida: He was six years old when his family moved from Peshawar to India after Partition in 1947. They travelled for almost three days in a train with dead bodies, witnessing bloodshed…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad’s football gem, Mohammed Habib, former captain of India, is no more
The entire football fraternity of Hyderabad and India was plunged into grief when the news broke this evening that Mohammed Habib, former Indian football captain and Arjuna award winner, passed away in his…
- Featured News
India, Russia in race to land on the Moon
Will the ‘slow and steady’, Chandrayaan-3 soft land on the South Pole of the Moon first or the ‘fast flying’, Luna-25 spacecraft of Russia achieve the distinction? This is the question that…
- India
After Anju, mother of two from Rajasthan elopes to Kuwait
Jaipur: Close on the heels of Anju eloping to Pakistan from Rajasthan, a mother of two kids, from Dungarpur, has reportedly eloped to Kuwait with her boyfriend from another community. The family…
- Politics
War against communal forces needs to be fought: Shivakumar
Bengaluru: Karnataka Congress President and Deputy Chief Minister, D.K. Shivakumar on Tuesday said there was a need to wage a war against communal forces in the present times. Speaking in Bengaluru after…
- India
Modi aims third term in office – Here’s list of Indian PMs, their term of office
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the occasion of the 77th Independence Day on Tuesday, asserted that he would return to power in 2024. ”…