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Final rolls shrink by 7.9% in 9 states, UTs
Aftermath of Ajit Pawar’s death: Anothermanrisestothemoment→P2 NEW DELHI: The total number of electors in the nine states and Union Territories (UTs) where the final rolls have been released has fallen from 214.56 million before the Special Intensive...
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Tariffs junked, Trump takes new route
WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI: The US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff regime in a 6-3 ruling on Friday — and within hours, Trump said he would sign a fresh executive order imposing a 10% global tariff under Section 122 of the...
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INDIA SET TO JOIN U.S.-LED PAX SILICA INITIATIVE TODAY
NEW DELHI: India is expected to formally join Pax Silica, the flagship US initiative to build up secure global supply chains for semiconductors and AI technology, on Friday, people familiar with the matter said against the backdrop of efforts by the...
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RS polls on Mar 16, NDA tally to go up
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday announced elections to the Rajya Sabha for 37 seats across 10 states on March 16 even as data suggested that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is set to expand its presence in the...
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Metro 4 consultant ignored 150 notices for shoddy work
MUMBAI: Over the last two-andhalf years, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) issued more than 150 notices to the general consultant in charge of Mumbai Metro-4 and other projects and yet paid them a sum of ₹380 crore, officials...
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India team heads to US to seal deal text
NEW DELHI: India’s chief negotiator Darpan Jain will visit the US next week to finalise the legal text for an interim agreement in line with the February 7 joint statement of the two countries, commerce secretary Rajesh Agrawal said on Monday, adding...
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Reforms to innovation: PM sets decade’s agenda
NEW DELHI: Asserting that his government’s “Reform Express” is benefitting common citizens in a big way, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said his top three reform priorities for the next decade will be continued structural reforms, deepening...
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Assam gets key project, Modi sharpens poll pitch
GUWAHATI/NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday stepped up the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) campaign for a third consecutive term in Assam with a sharp political attack on the Congress, while the Union cabinet in New Delhi separately...
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BNP clinches massive mandate in B’desh polls
DHAKA : Bangladesh’s opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party won a landslide parliamentary election on Friday, returning to power after nearly two decades and positioning party leader Tarique Rahman to become prime minister as the country emerges from...
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DAC nod for Rafale fighters, sub hunters
NEW DELHI: The defence acquisition council (DAC) on Thursday cleared the purchase of military hardware worth ₹3.6 lakh crore, including 114 Rafale fighter jets, six P-8I long-range maritime surveillance aircraft, SCALP deep-strike cruise missiles and...
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Delhi, DC chart course for new trade order
NEW DELHI: India and the US moved closer to an interim trade deal on Saturday, releasing a joint statement that confirms US tariffs on Indian goods have dropped to 18% from 50% and details a framework committing both countries to zero duties on select...
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U-19 CWC: India’s young stars shine on world stage
The Indian team celebrates after winning the Under-19 World Cup in Harare, Zimbabwe on Friday. India scored 411/9 in the first innings of the final and dismissed England for 311 to win the tournament for a sixth time, the most for any country. Teen...
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ARREST NOT RULE IN PROBE CASES WITH UP TO 7-YR JAIL TERMS: SC
NEW DELHI: No person should be arrested for an alleged offence punishable with imprisonment of up to seven years unless such arrest is “absolutely warranted”, the Supreme Court has held, underscoring that issuing a notice to cooperate with the probe is...
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Manipur gets a new CM after 12 months of President’s Rule
IMPHAL: Former Manipur speaker Yumnam Khemchand Singh on Wednesday took oath as the chief minister of the strifetorn state, becoming the first person to helm the northeastern province since President’s Rule was clamped in 2025 after two years of ethnic...
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US deal protects key agri items, dairy; no duty for $40bn exports
NEW DELHI: The India-US trade deal exempts Indian dairy and “sensitive” agriculture items from its ambit, provides for zero-duty access to over $40 billion worth of Indian goods, and reduces customs duties on labor-intensive Indian merchandise such as...
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US trade deal done: India tariffs now 18%
NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Monday that Indian goods will face a reduced US tariff of 18% after a phone conversation with President Donald Trump, who said the two sides had concluded a trade deal whereby New Delhi...
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Reform Express takes Kartavya path
NEW DELHI: In 2025-26, the Union government threw the kitchen sink at reviving growth and mass sentiment via a big boost to disposable incomes through an income tax reduction in the last Budget followed by a mid-year Goods and Services Tax (GST) cut....
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Budget set to lay down ‘reform express’ path
NEW DELHI: The Union Budget to be presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday is expected to accelerate regulatory reforms by dismantling compliance burdens for citizens, businesses and professionals to drive the “Viksit Bharat”...
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Sunetra Pawar to take oath as deputy CM
Rajya Sabha member Sunetra Pawar is set to take oath as the first woman deputy chief minister of Maharashtra on Saturday, taking over the position from her late husband Ajit Pawar who died in a tragic plane crash two days ago. Sunetra, who...
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Ajit Pawar laid to rest as probe gathers pace
PUNE: Thousands of people gathered in Baramati on Thursday to bid farewell to Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, whose sudden death in a plane crash a day earlier plunged the state into mourning. Amid chants of “Ajit dada amar rahe” (long...
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UNVEILED: MAP DEPICTING DISTRIBUTION OF DARK MATTER IN UNIVERSE
Ordinary matter makes up stars, planets, people and everything else we can see. But it represents only about 15% of all the matter in the cosmos. The rest is dark matter, which does not emit or reflect light, making it invisible to the human eye and to...
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Historic deal: India, EU play their trump card
NEW DELHI: India and the European Union (EU) concluded a free trade agreement billed as the “mother of all deals”, with their leaders positioning commerce as a bulwark against protectionism and pledging to shore up a rules-based world order while...
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Pak to face heavy ICC penalties if it boycotts T20 WC
MUMBAI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) could face a range of penalties from the International Cricket Council (ICC), including the withholding of its revenue, restrictions on future bilateral series, and reduced influence in upcoming multination...
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Heavy snowfall brings hills to a standstill
Vehicles stranded on a snow-covered street in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, on Saturday.
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‘Armada on way’: US renews threat to Iran
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said a US “armada” was heading toward the Gulf and that Washington was watching Iran closely, even after downplaying the prospect of imminent military action and saying Tehran appeared interested in talks. Trump has...
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TRUMP BACKS DOWN ON GREENLAND TARIFFS, SAYS DEAL FRAMEWORK REACHED
DAVOS, SWITZERLAND: US President Donald Trump abruptly stepped back on Wednesday from threats to impose tariffs as leverage to seize Greenland, ruled out the use of force and suggested a deal was in sight to end a dispute over the Danish territory that...
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NATO SHOULD ALLOW U.S. TO TAKE GREENLAND BUT WON’T USE FORCE, TRUMP SAYS AT WEF
SWITZERL AND: President Donald Trump insisted he wants to “get Greenland, including right, title and ownership,” but he said he wouldn’t employ force to achieve that — using his speech on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum to repeatedly deride...
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SC steps in for Bengal voters feeling SIR ‘stress and strain’
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stepped in to alleviate the “stress and strain” faced by ordinary voters during West Bengal’s special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, issuing a slew of binding directions to the Election Commission of...
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Shinde moves flock as mayoral race looms
MUMBAI: A day after BJP’s dominance over the civic polls across 29 cities in Maharashtra was declared, the race to cobble together a majority in the civic bodies has begun in earnest. While the BJP won a majority on its own in 14 municipal...
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Machado ‘gifts’ Trump her Nobel peace prize
WASHINGTON: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize medal to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday during a White House meeting, in a bid to influence his efforts to shape her country’s political future. A White...
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CAMPAIGNING ENDS, CITY VOTES TOMORROW
MUMBAI: Campaigning for the 29 municipal corporations across Maharashtra formally closed at 5.30 pm on Tuesday. On polling day tomorrow, Mumbai will see a three-cornered fight between the BJPShiv Sena, the Shiv Sena (UBT)-MNS and the CongressVBA...
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Mahayuti manifesto woos Marathi manoos, women
MUMBAI: The Mahayuti alliance on Sunday launched its manifesto for the upcoming BMC elections, promising a clutch of initiatives for the city, including 50% fare concession for women on BEST buses, interest-free loan of ₹50 lakh for women...
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How United and Chelsea bungled in player transfers
Coach sackings are routine in the cutthroat world of club football. Still, the dismissal of Enzo Maresca by Chelsea and Ruben Amorim by Manchester United in the first week of 2026 was stunning in its speed. It was a management masterstroke of making a...
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Economy expected to grow at 7.4% in the ongoing financial year, indicates NSO data
The Indian economy is expected to grow at 7.4% in the ongoing fiscal year, the National Statistical Office (NSO) said in its first advance estimates of GDP released on Wednesday. The projected growth rate – there are still three months left for 2025-26...
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SEC: No polls in wards with ‘unopposed’ wins
MUMBAI: Even as the controversy surrounding Mahayuti candidates being elected unopposed rages on, the State Election Commission (SEC) has made it clear that there will be no polling in wards where there is just one candidate in the fray for the January...
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U.S. TO RUN S AMERICAN NATION FOR NOW, SAYS TRUMP AFTER MADURO’S CAPTURE
NEW YORK: Venezuela’s toppled leader Nicolas Maduro was in a New York detention centre on Sunday awaiting drug charges after President Donald Trump ordered an audacious raid to capture him, saying the US would take control of the oilproducing...
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US spirits away Maduro
Venezuela Prez, wife captured from bedroom after US helicopters reach deep into Caracas Trump says US will run Venezuela, tap its vast oil reserves and sell ‘large amounts’ to others Major powers denounce operation as breach of international law,...
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Uproar as 68 Mahayuti candidates win unopposed
MUMBAI: As many as 68 candidates from the three major ruling parties in the Mahayuti alliance in the state are set to be elected unopposed in crucial elections to 29 municipal corporations in Maharashtra. Opposition parties are crying foul, alleging...
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WORLD WELCOMES 2026 WITH EXUBERANCE AND JUBILATION
As Wednesday turned to Thursday, people around the world said goodbye to a challenging 2025 and expressed hopes for the New Year to bring in good times. Revellers around the world rang in 2026 with exuberant celebrations filled with thunderous...
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Cabinet freezes Vi AGR dues, grants more time
NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday froze Vodafone Idea Ltd’s (Vi) adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues at ₹87,695 crore as of December 31, 2025, and allowed the telecom operator to repay the amount over 10 years from fiscal 2032 to fiscal 2041. The...
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1 On average, total rain is the 15 highest this year since 1979 and extreme rain the 5th highest
As India witnessed rain most prominently in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh during the monsoon, large parts of the world experienced extreme rainfall in 2025. Floods in California in the United States on Christmas eve or those in South and Southeast Asia...
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Iconic screen siren who made a radical shift dies at 91
PARIS: French film sensation Brigitte Bardot, a symbol of sexual liberation in the 1950s and 1960s who reinvented herself as an animal rights defender and embraced far-right views, died on Sunday aged 91, her foundation said. She died in her...
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4% of Assam voters marked for deletion
GUWAHATI: The Election Commission (EC) has marked 1.06 million names for deletion from the electoral rolls of Assam following a special revision exercise that involved house-tohouse verification across the state, officials announced on Saturday with...
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‘Can’t be brushed aside’: India on B’desh attacks
NEW DELHI: India on Friday expressed grave concern at the “unremitting hostility” against minority communities in Bangladesh and reiterated its call for those responsible for the lynching of a Hindu man named Dipu Chandra Das to be brought to justice,...
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HT WISHES ITS READERS A MERRY CHRISTMAS
How does your Christmas look? Is there a star-lit tree, the crinkle of wrapping paper and a heap of gifts? Or the quiet flickering of lights and gentle hum of carols in the air? However one celebrates, chances are there are ancient rites, pagan...
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Envoys called in, Delhi, Dhaka trade protests
India and Bangladesh on Tuesday brought in each other’s envoys to lodge protests over recent incidents impacting bilateral relations, even as demonstrations erupted in several parts of the country, including near the Bangladeshi mission in New Delhi,...
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Mahayuti wins big in 1st phase of local body polls
MUMBAI: The BJP on Sunday emerged as big winners in the first phase of elections for local self-government bodies in Maharashtra, winning 117 out of the 288 posts of president of municipal council and nagar panchayats across the state. The Eknath...
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Cold snap, dense fog paralyse north India
DELHI: Air pollution surged into the severe category in Delhi on Saturday while blinding fog and frigid temperatures swept much of northern India and disrupted air, road and rail traffic across 10 states as authorities issued red and orange alerts for...
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Unrest returns in B’desh, Indian missions on edge
NEW DELHI: Bangladesh continued to be on edge on Friday, after protests near the Indian high commission in Dhaka and assistant high commissions in Chittagong, Khulna and Rajshahi, attacks on the offices of several newspapers including the influential...
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Kokate resigns, Nashik police set to arrest him
MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) minister Manikrao Kokate has resigned from the Maharashtra cabinet, party president and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar confirmed on Thursday, a day after a trial court in Nashik issued an arrest warrant...
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Nuke bill clears LS as Oppn wants House panel scrutiny
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed The Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India Bill, 2025 or the SHANTI bill via a voice vote after the Opposition, which demanded that the bill be referred to a...
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NIA names LeT, TRF in Pahalgam charge sheet
NEW DELHI/JAMMU: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday filed a charge sheet against terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), its proxy The Resistance Front (TRF), and others in connection with the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that...
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Meeting of the GOATs
KOLKATA: A North 24 Parganas district court on Sunday sent Satadru Dutta, the organiser of Lionel Messi’s “GOAT Tour” in West Bengal, to 14-day police custody, a day after fan outrage during the event at Salt Lake Stadium led to chaos and vandalism,...
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20 US states sue Trump govt over H-1B visa hike
WASHINGTON: Twenty US states have sued the Trump administration for what they said was the “unlawful” introduction of a $100,000 visa fee for H-1B visa applications. The lawsuits -- filed by the Democratic Party’s AttorneysGeneral in these states --...
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India eases visa rules as Chinese applicants rise
NEW DELHI: India has tweaked visa rules to address the issue of a growing number of applications from Chinese nationals coming to the country for short periods for business activities without changing vetting procedures, people familiar with the matter...
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Modi, Trump discuss progress in ties, trade
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on Thursday discussed ways to sustain momentum in enhancing bilateral trade, people familiar with the matter said amid emerging signals that the two sides may be inching towards a...
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