Hindustan Times ST (Noida)
BJP reshuffle may set course for cabinet rejig
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday announced its much-anticipated new organisational team, bringing a few key leaders back into the party, promoting a bouquet of women leaders and inducting a number of young people with an eye on...
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Passenger’s gun goes off at Varanasi airport, 2 hurt
Two airport personnel at Varanasi airport were injured on Sunday after a round was accidentally fired from a licensed pistol during a security check, officials said. Airport director Puneet Gupta said the two were stable. The Bureau of Civil Aviation...
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7 pillars, 1 goal: PM lays out blueprint for ‘Viksit Bharat’
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday unveiled seven streams of strength that he said will power the country’s journey to Viksit Bharat (developed India) by 2047, announcing mega plans for student coaching classes, civil defence...
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‘Students have right to protest’: CJI pulls up BCI
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Friday came down heavily on the Bar Council of India (BCI) over its intervention in the NALSAR University of Law enrolment controversy, saying the Council had “no business” interfering with students’...
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32mn people, 4mn more homes: Delhi’s 2047 plan
The Capital’s population will likely touch 32 million by 2047 and require nearly four million additional houses, triple the current power generation capacity and double the current solid waste management capability, projections in the Master Plan for...
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Chandra to step down as Tata Sons chair at end of his term
BENGALURU/MUMBAI: After a 40-year association with the Tata Group, Natarajan Chandrasekaran on Wednesday said he had decided to step down as chairman of Tata Sons when his current term ends, citing lack of unanimous support for his reappointment from...
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Mid-air plunge: AI pilot tests +ve for marijuana
NEW DELHI: The pilot-in-command of an Air India Phuketdelhi flight that plunged 300 feet last week tested positive for marijuana in a confirmatory drug test, said people aware of the matter, a finding that raises questions over passenger safety. The...
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Delhi Aug rain already in excess with 3 weeks to go
A brief spell of showers in Delhi on Monday helped push the quantum of showers this August past the weather department’s long-period average for the month, which still has three weeks to go, underscoring what has been an unusually wet spell for the...
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HPV jab, data caveats in Delhi’s Lakshmi scheme
Women applying for the Delhi government’s Lakshmi Yojana welfare programme must ensure that children in their family are vaccinated in line with government norms, including the HPV jab for girls aged above 14, and applicants must consent to the use of...
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PM asks students to put nation’s benefit over personal gains
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged graduating engineers at Iit-delhi on Saturday to measure their careers against the country’s needs rather than salary slips or startup valuations, telling students that “the basis of every decision of yours...
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US Senate clears bill for tariffs over Russian oil
WASHINGTON: The US Senate on Friday approved by 86 votes to 11 a bill that would authorise tariffs of up to 100% on countries buying Russian oil, gas and other exports, with India named as one of five target economies by the bill’s sponsors even as US...
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Echo Oppn’s sentiments to Amit Shah: V-P to Rijiju
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha chairman CP Radhakrishnan on Thursday asked Union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju to “echo the sentiments of the Opposition” to Union home minister Amit Shah, a rare observation that came amid mounting disruptions...
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Traffic at a standstill again as rain hobbles Delhi civic infra
NEW DELHI: Just 16mm of rain was enough to bring Delhi to a standstill once again as a spell of showers on Wednesday flooded large parts of the Capital and put a brake on traffic, keeping commuters stuck in winding snarls across several crucial...
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Qatar, US see progress in talks to end Iran war
Qatar said on Tuesday mediators were making progress in efforts to end the Us-iran war, driving oil prices lower, although Tehran has denied President Donald Trump’s assertion that talks are already under way. Benchmark Brent crude fell more than 4%...
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BJP loses Bankipur bastion, fails to unseat Cong in Datia
PATNA/BHOPAL/DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suffered twin setbacks in assembly bypolls on Monday, losing its bastion in Bihar’s Bankipur to poll-strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor and failing to win back its stronghold of Datia in...
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FAB FOURTH AT CWG
Despite several of India's traditionally strong sports being dropped for Glasgow, India did well to finish in the top five in the medals tally. Here's a breakdown on what India gained compared to the previous editions and where it lost out
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Modi credits youth with driving India’s all-round progress
MYSURU: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday credited the country’s youth with driving India’s rise as the world’s fastest-growing major economy, its third-largest startup ecosystem and the nation’s emerging strength in semiconductors, artificial...
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₹84k-cr push for offshore oil wells gets cabinet nod
The Union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday approved Samudra Manthan, a ₹84,084 crore national offshore exploration scheme that aims to boost depleting domestic oil and gas resources at a time when India’s crude oil import...
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Delhi promises no legal action against protesters
Karn Pratap Singh NEW DELHI: The Delhi government on Thursday announced that no adverse legal action will be taken against those involved in sprawling student protests in the Capital last week that forced the resignation of then Union education...
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Rahul, Centre clash as LS clears anti-paper leak bill
The Centre and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi clashed on Wednesday over allegations of police excesses during a student protest in Delhi on July 20, with the latter demanding the resignation of Union home minister Amit Shah and...
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SC clears way for probe of attacks on students, cops
The Supreme Court on Tuesday paved the way for an independent inquiry into allegations of police excesses as well as attacks on police personnel during the recent student protests, holding that allegations disclosed a prima facie case warranting a...
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After protests, Parliament to debate tougher paper leak bill
A stringent bill that hikes fines and punishment for those convicted of examination paper leaks is set to be debated in Parliament on Tuesday, a day after it was introduced in the Lok Sabha amid protests by the Opposition that sought to corner the...
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PM unveils Nilekani-led panel for exam reforms
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced a six-member highpowered task force headed by Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani to recommend technological interventions and structural reforms to overhaul the National Testing Agency’s (NTA)...
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Pradhan steps down, Gen Z steps up
NEW DELHI: A 36-day stir by students achieved a landmark victory on Saturday as education minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned following weeks of sweeping protests that brought central Delhi to a halt, energised a moribund Opposition, and heralded the...
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Govt steps up bid to end impasse, protesters firm on Pradhan’s exit
The government intensified efforts on Friday to break a stalemate with student protesters, pushing through cabinet a stringent bill cracking down on paper leaks, sacking top officers at the National Testing Agency and moving to hire specialists, but...
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PM promises new law to tackle paper leaks; cabinet meet today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday promised a new law to tackle examination question paper leaks and fast-track courts to deal with those accused of the crime as the government pushed to break an impasse with student protesters demanding the...
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Parliament stays in deadlock; brief clashes in central Delhi
NEW DELHI: An impasse over student protests demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan deepened on Wednesday as crowds swelled and tensions briefly flared at Jantar Mantar, while the Opposition jammed Parliament during the...
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12 killed in Sikkim tunnel collapse, 13 trapped SPECIAL RESCUE TEAMS AT SITE ‘GAS TRIGGERED EXPLOSION’
Rescue personnel, assisted by a special mining team from West Bengal, were deployed to retrieve those trapped inside the ADIT-3 tunnel of NHPC Teesta Stage VI Hydroelectric Project in Jholungey. Twelve bodies have been recovered, said officials, adding...
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Chaos on streets echoes in House
Massive protests inside and outside Parliament rocked the first day of the monsoon session on Monday as a phalanx of agitators marched in central Delhi demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan and the Opposition sought...
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Oppn walkout sets stage for a stormy monsoon session
Setting the stage for a stormy monsoon session beginning Monday, Opposition parties staged a walkout from Sunday’s all-party meeting over the invitation extended to the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), before returning to press for debates...
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6 UBT MPS’ merger with Sena gets LS Speaker’s approval
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday approved the merger of six Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) lawmakers with the Shiv Sena and allotted a separate seating arrangement for 20 rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPS. The decision came two days...
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Strikes on infrastructure heighten Us-iran conflict
DUBAI: The United States struck bridges in Iran, and Tehran responded by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait on Friday, as the two sides risked further escalation by expanding their targets to include infrastructure. At sea, where the...
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Attacks mount as US and Iran hurtle towards all-out war
DUBAI: The United States intensified its strikes on Iran on Thursday, hitting targets farther north and firing into a ship the US accused of trying to break its naval blockade on the Islamic Republic. Iran retaliated by launching missiles and drones at...
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Two killed as fire guts Noida Sec 66 building
A fire ripped through a four-storey apartment in Sector 66 of Noida on Wednesday morning, killing two people, the latest in a spate of infernos in the National Capital Region (NCR) during an unforgiving summer that have underlined the widespread...
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Indian sailor killed, 10 injured in Iran strike
An Indian sailor was killed and 10 Indian nationals were injured, two of them seriously, when Iran fired missiles at two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, prompting the external affairs ministry to summon the seniormost Iranian diplomat...
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Trump reimposes Hormuz blockade, sets tolls on ships
DUBAI: US President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and will charge other ships for safe passage. Iran has insisted it controls the critical waterway, as another exchange of...
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FAB FOUR CHASE WORLD CUP GLORY
Jude Bellingham did not as much as crash what was billed as a Harry Kane versus Erling Haaland party at a sweltering Miami on Saturday afternoon. The young superstar of world football imposed himself on an intense World Cup quarter-final as his...
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Apple sues Openai, two former staffers for ‘stealing’ trade secrets
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc has sued Openai for trade secret theft, accusing the artificial intelligence startup and its hardware chief of engaging in a coordinated campaign to steal information about upcoming products. The iphone maker said in a suit on...
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Hasina plans return: ‘Will surrender in Dec’
NEW DELHI/DHAKA: Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, facing a death sentence back home where her party is banned, told Reuters she and senior party colleagues plan to return from exile in India around December and surrender. The country’s...
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India secures landmark uranium deal with Aus
NEW DELHI: India and Australia concluded a landmark deal on Thursday for the supply of uranium to boost New Delhi’s nuclear power programme and agreed to deepen cooperation in defence, maritime security, critical minerals and energy as Prime Minister...
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US may seek extradition of kingpin Bishnoi, two others
US law enforcement authorities have indicated they will seek the extradition of several individuals from India linked to organised crime networks, after unsealing indictments on Tuesday against members of three India-linked gangs as part of a...
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Missiles, minerals mark new phase in India- Indonesia ties
India and Indonesia on Tuesday concluded a raft of agreements, including deals for the supply of Brahmos and Astra missiles and cooperation in critical minerals and maritime security, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Prabowo Subianto...
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China conducts rare submarine-launched ballistic missile test, sparks regional alarm
China’s navy testlaunched a long-range ballistic missile Monday from one of its nuclear-powered submarines in the South Pacific, a rare act that drew protests and concern from countries in the region. The missile carried a dummy warhead, according to...
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Iran leaders step out, signalling defiance at Khamenei funeral
Iran’s top officials and brothers of the new supreme leader emerged into public view Sunday to attend funeral prayers for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Their appearance signalled confidence in their safety as Iran pushes back on US demands in negotiations to...
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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi: The youngest boy in blue
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi hits a six off Jofra Archer during his debut against England in Manchester on Saturday. He scored 14 off 10 balls before being stumped by Jos Buttler off spinner Will Jacks. England beat India by four wickets after Jacob Bethell’s...
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SC stays planned CAG audit of power discoms in Capital
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a proposed audit of Delhi’s three private power distribution companies by the Comptroller and Auditor General ( CAG), observing that the legality of the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission’s ( DERC) decision to...
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Monsoon reaches Delhi with a whimper, brings little rain
The southwest monsoon reached Delhi on Thursday, five days behind its usual June 27 arrival date, bringing brief relief from muggy heat before the rain abruptly stopped shortly after morning — with experts seeing this pause lasting possibly until after...
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ATF, commercial LPG rates cut as crude prices ease
India’s stateowned oil companies on Wednesday cut prices of jet fuel used by domestic airlines by ₹5 a litre and commercial cooking gas cylinders, by ₹183.50 each, and one private fuel retailer rolled back retail price hikes as oil prices fell sharply...
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July likely to be drier, hotter than normal: IMD’S grim forecast
July this year will be drier than usual, with rainfall across the country expected to be 94% of the long-period average (LPA), the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday, bucking hopes of any major relief after a bruising June that was...
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Attacks pause, but US, Iran differ over next steps on talks
DUBAI: President Donald Trump said Monday that Iran had requested a meeting with U.S. counterparts, though one of Iran’s top negotiators said no further talks had been scheduled after attacks across the Persian Gulf over the weekend challenged...
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PM visit deepens India-seychelles strategic relations
India and Seychelles on Sunday finalised an extradition treaty, a ₹1,250-crore line of credit and an agreement on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) system as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Patrick Herminie held talks on strengthening...
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Temple trust weighs officials’ resignations
The Ram Temple trust on Saturday confirmed that its general secretary Champat Rai and member Anil Mishra have tendered their resignations amid allegations of irregularities in donations, adding that a final call on their decision to step down will be...
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3 workers die cleaning septic tank in Capital
Three men died on Friday after inhaling toxic gases inside a septic tank at a factory in outer Delhi where they were cleaning the tank manually without safety equipment, according to the police. The accident, at the Mundka Industrial Area, underscores...
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Twin quakes ravage Venezuela, 188 killed
LA GUAIRA: Venezuelans searched for survivors beneath collapsed buildings Thursday and rescue teams raced to northern areas rocked by a pair of powerful earthquakes that officials say killed at least 188 people and left more than 200 trapped. Many more...
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Oil back at pre-war levels as prices drop below $75
Benchmark oil prices fell more than $3 on Wednesday to their lowest level since before the start of the Iran war as supply concerns eased with more stranded oil tankers exiting the Strait of Hormuz. US crude futures, meanwhile, slipped below $70 a...
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Dust storm tints Delhi in sepia
BRIEF RED ALERT The dust storm preceded light showers and thunderstorms in some parts, with IMD putting large parts of the Capital under a red alert.
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Blaze kills 15 trapped in Lucknow building
A fire on Monday tore through a building being run as a commercial complex in an upscale residential area of Lucknow, killing at least 15 people, once again underlining the fatal consequences of rampant fire-safety violations exposed in recent blazes...
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Trump’s fresh threats cast shadow over Iran-us talks
President Donald Trump cast a shadow over the high-stakes Iran-us talks in Switzerland on Sunday as he threatened to restart strikes on Iran for its support of Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. “Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in...
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ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR NEET RETEST
THE PREP 200,000: Personnel deployed, including invigilators, district officials, state police, CAPFS and the Indian Air Force. NTA DG Abhishek Singh leads the Delhi command centre, aided by 36 senior officials, 674 city coordinators and 6,669...
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Walking on footpaths a fundamental right: SC
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday declared that every citizen has a fundamental right to walk on a demarcated footpath, holding that this right is primary and takes precedence over the movement of motorised vehicles, as it delivered a far-reaching...
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HC QUESTIONS GOVT’S TELEGRAM BAN OVER NEET-UG, RESERVES ORDER
The Delhi high court on Thursday questioned the Centre’s decision to temporarily restrict access to Telegram ahead of the June 21 NEET-UG 2026 retest, asking how the rights of 150 million users of the messaging app can be curtailed just because a few...
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Sena (UBT) in split mode but numbers still unclear
Maharashtra was gripped by its third political crisis in four years on Wednesday after the Shiv Sena said that six out of the nine Lok Sabha members of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) had signed a letter to form a separate grouping and plan...
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With Trump present, Modi flags seafarers’ safety at G7
NEW DELHI: Wars can only be addressed through dialogue, diplomacy and international cooperation, and all countries must ensure the safety of maritime routes and seafarers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a gathering that included US President Donald...
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Framework forged for a fragile peace
The US and Iran reached an initial agreement Monday that would extend their shaky ceasefire and lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, but significant challenges remain to ending the war, including whether Israel will continue its offensive in...
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Tughlakabad inferno lit on purpose, 3 held
NEW DELHI: A deadly fire in a southeast Delhi’s Tughlakabad Extension on Friday was not an accident but a planned arson over a ₹50,000 debt — and the man it was meant to target survived, while three residents with no connection to the dispute died,...
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In a first, AI model pulled offline after US govt intervenes
Anthropic suspended access to its two most capable artificial intelligence models on Friday to comply with a US government national-security order, disabling the systems for every customer worldwide three days after opening access to one of them. The...
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US, Iran agree on text of peace deal, says Pak
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s prime minister said Friday the United States and Iran have agreed to wording of an agreement aimed at ending their war in the Middle East and that mediators were working with both sides to finalize a deal. Shehbaz Sharif said the...
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3 Indian sailors dead in US attack; 3rd vessel hit
Three Indian seafarers reported missing after a US attack on a tanker off the coast of Oman have been confirmed dead, shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal said on Thursday, hours after US forces targeted another merchant vessel with 20 Indian crew...
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Mamata attends INDIA meet, MPS break ranks
The Trinamool Congress’s Lok Sabha unit tottered on the precipice of a split on Monday after at least 14 lawmakers met in Delhi and discussed breaking away in the presence of Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, the latest setback for the regional...
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Retd HC judge faces threats, family in UK attacked over verdict
The family of retired Bombay high court judge GS Patel has for 10 months now, faced threats and actual acts of violence across two continents in connection with his landmark 2024 judgment settling the succession issue in the Dawoodi Bohra community,...
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Missiles, drones fly in major W Asia flare-up
Iran fired ballistic missiles and drones toward Bahrain and Kuwait early Saturday, Bahrain’s government said, adding that they were intercepted. It called on Tehran to immediately cease attacks on Gulf neighbors that it deemed a “serious...
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RBI keeps rates steady, takes steps to attract foreign capital
NEW DELHI: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India maintained status quo on monetary policy rate and stance – they continue to be 5.25% and neutral – on Friday even as it reduced its growth forecast and increased its inflation...
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After 21 died, owner filed to renew expired licence
The devastating blaze in an illegal bed-andbreakfast in south Delhi’s Hauz Rani that killed 21 people and injured 21 more began in the kitchen of the restaurant on the ground floor, preliminary probes of Delhi Fire Service and police have said. But an...
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Safety gaps spark another Delhi tragedy as 21 die in B&B blaze
NEW DELHI: An early morning fire on Wednesday in Flourish Stay, a bed-and-breakfast in Hauz Rani, south Delhi, killed at least 21 people, including 12 foreign nationals, with significant violations by the establishment highlighting the lax regulatory...
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CBSE chairman, secy shunted amid outcry
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday replaced the chair and the secretary of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and started a probe into the procurement of services for the board’s controversial, glitch-prone onscreen marking (OSM) system amid...
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Trump claims Lebanon truce as talks falter
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Israel and Hezbollah agreed to stop attacking each other in Lebanon and that talks with Iran were continuing after fresh violence threatened negotiations to end the Middle East conflict. Trump said he had...
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