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HCoI invites online applications for Haj 2025
New Delhi: India’s quota for 2025 Haj remained the same as 2024 at 1,75,025 as Minister for Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju opened the process for applying for the pilgrimage through the Haj…
- India
Congress claims Gujarat govt helping Adani Ports ‘secure monopoly’, says JPC essential
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday reiterated its demand for a joint parliamentary committee into the Adani issue and alleged that the Gujarat government was helping Adani Ports to “secure a monopoly”…
- India
CBI team to investigate doctor murder case reaches Kolkata
Kolkata: A team of senior CBI officers reached Kolkata on Wednesday morning to investigate the alleged rape and murder of a woman doctor at a state-run hospital in West Bengal, sources at…
- India
Air India flight suffers bird-hit at Goa airport, take-off aborted
Panaji: An Air India flight, which was about to depart from the Dabolim airport in Goa for Mumbai, had to abort its take-off due to a bird-hit on Wednesday morning, an official…
- India
Every confidence we’ll be able to work with whoever wins US election: Jaishankar
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said India has “every confidence” that it will be able to work with the next President of the United States, whoever occupies the…
- India
India, US ink ‘landmark’ MoU on MSMEs
New Delhi: India and the US on Tuesday signed a “landmark” agreement that provides a framework for both sides to explore cooperation in the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector. External…
- India
Wayanad landslides linked to 10 pc heavier rainfall due to climate change: Study
New Delhi: The deadly landslides in Kerala’s ecologically fragile Wayanad district were triggered by a heavy burst of rainfall, made 10 per cent heavier by climate change, according to a new rapid…
- India
Excise case: Supreme Court to hear Kejriwal’s bail plea today
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear a plea filed by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal seeking release from jail in connection with the Delhi excise policy case, in which…
- India
India carries out maiden flight test of long-range glide bomb ‘Gaurav’
New Delhi: India has carried out a “successful” maiden flight test of long-range glide bomb (LRGB) Gaurav from a Su-30 MK-I fighter jet of the Indian Air Force. During the flight test,…
- Bangalore
No question of returning HMT land to Karnataka govt: Kumaraswamy
Bengaluru: Union Heavy Industries and Steel Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Tuesday said that there is no question of returning the land under the control of the HMT factory, which is owned by…
- India
Assam CM accuses Meghalaya Univ of causing Guwahati floods; varsity denies
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, known for his Islamaphobic stance, accused a private university in Meghalaya of having caused a flash flood in Guwahati city which he termed ‘flood jihad’. The…
- India
MP: Mandatory to include books authored by RSS leaders in college
Bhopal: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Madhya Pradesh government has made it mandatory for colleges across the state to incorporate books authored by leaders of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) into their…
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Olympics: Tales of tragedy and triumph; what mistakes India made?
From the Indian standpoint, the Paris Olympic Games was the most cathartic one seen in this century. Never before have so many Indian athletes come so close to winning medals and yet…
- India
Teacher held for raping teenage student
Palghar: Police have arrested a school teacher for allegedly raping a 14-year-old student on several occasions at his private tuition classes at Nalasopara in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, an official said on Tuesday.…
- India
India’s 5G smartphone market share surges 77 pc in Q2
New Delhi: India’s 5G smartphone market share increased to 77 per cent in the second quarter (Q2) — up from 49 per cent in the same quarter last year — while the…
