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SC divided on UAPA bail, larger bench to weigh in
In an extraordinary institutional moment at the Supreme Court, a clash of judicial views between two coordinate benches over bail jurisprudence under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) spilled into the open on Friday, with one bench...
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Tehran digs in as Trump threatens return to force
Pakistan stepped up diplomacy on Thursday to hasten US and Iran peace talks even as Tehran appeared to harden its stance over nuclear materials amid new threats of strikes from US President Donald Trump if he did not get the “right answers”. Six weeks...
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Rome, Delhi dial up ties during Modi’s Italy visit
India and Italy on Wednesday elevated their ties to a special strategic partnership and pledged to expand bilateral trade to €20 billion by 2029, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni held talks on strengthening...
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City experiences its hottest day as temp soars to 45.1°C
NEW DELHI: Delhi experienced its hottest day this summer, with maximum temperature soaring to 45.1 degrees Celsius (°C). The maximum temperature on Monday was recorded at 43.4°C, the second-highest this summer. The weather department has forecast...
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REMAINS OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA’S LARGEST DINOSAUR UNEARTHED IN THAILAND
Along a meandering river in a warm and arid region that is now Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a planteating behemoth almost 90 feet long browsed on the treetops without much fear of predators due to its sheer size. This was Nagatitan...
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CBI closes in on NTA paper-setting group
NEW DELHI: A second member of the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) paper-setting committee has been arrested in the NEET-UG 2026 question paper leak case — a senior botany teacher from Pune who allegedly disclosed botany and zoology questions at...
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Petrol, diesel retail prices hiked by ₹3/l as war bites
NEW DELHI: State-run oil companies raised pump prices of petrol and diesel by ₹3 per litre each across the country on Friday, while Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL) increased compressed natural gas (CNG) rates by ₹2 per kg in and around Delhi — the first...
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In first step after PM’s appeal, gold, silver duty raised to 15%
NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday raised customs duty on precious metals including gold and silver to 15% from 6% to curb their imports and save foreign exchange for essentials such as energy and fertilizers amid a protracted war in West Asia that...
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NEET mess: NTA orders retest as CBI probes leak
NEW DELHI/JAIPUR: The National Testing Agency cancelled NEET-UG 2026 on Tuesday, nine days after 2.27 million students sat for the examination across 551 cities, after central agencies confirmed that the question paper had been compromised. Questions...
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Trump says truce with Tehran on ‘life support’
WASHINGTON/DUBAI: President Donald Trump said on Monday that a ceasefire with Iran was “on life support” after he rejected Tehran’s response to a US peace proposal, fuelling concerns of a resumption of hostilities in the 10-week-old conflict that has...
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Cut fuel use, gold buys: Modi as Iran war bites
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged Indians to adopt austerity measures ranging from cutting fuel consumption and postponing foreign travel to reducing edible oil use and chemical fertiliser dependence, as the government grapples...
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Numbers in order, Vijay to be TN commander-in-chief
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu governor Rajendra Arlekar on Saturday invited C Joseph Vijay to form the state government after he handed over letters of support from a clutch of parties that helped his Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) swing past the majority mark...
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Dada to replace Didi in West Bengal; Vijay meets guv again, left on hold
KOLKATA: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday declared Suvendu Adhikari the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) West Bengal legislative party, paving his way to become chief minister of the eastern state after sweeping to power in a...
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Guv keeps Vijay waiting as TN deadlock deepens
CHENNAI: The political churn in Tamil Nadu intensified on Thursday as actor-turned-politician Vijay met governor Rajendra Arlekar for a second time in two days even as Lok Bhavan defended its decision not to invite the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) to...
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UAE to leave OPEC as war upends oil market
The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday it will leave OPEC effective May 1, stripping the oil cartel of its third-largest producer and further weakening its leverage over global oil supplies and prices. The UAE’s decision had been rumored as a...
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PAK STILL WORKING TO BRIDGE U.S., IRAN GAPS DESPITE FAILURE OF FACE-TO-FACE TALKS
Work has not halted to bridge gaps between the United States and Iran, sources from mediator Pakistan said, despite the failure of face-to-face diplomacy after Donald Trump called off a trip by his envoys and said Iran should phone when it wants a...
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Trump in crosshairs again as shooter targets DC function
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump and officials in his administration were the likely targets of a suspect who fired on a security agent guarding the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, US acting Attorney General Todd Blanche...
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Iran officials leave, US envoys call off trip to Pak for parleys
ISLAMABAD: The latest ceasefire talks between the United States and Iran appeared to fail Saturday before they began, as Tehran’s top diplomat left Pakistan and President Donald Trump soon afterward said he had told envoys not to travel to...
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Forced continuation of pregnancy violates dignity, says top court
NEW DELHI: Directing a woman to continue with her unwanted pregnancy will be a direct affront to her right to live with dignity and reproductive autonomy, while rendering her “subordinate” to the child yet to be born, the Supreme Court held on Friday,...
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Trump’s ‘shoot, kill’ order sharpens Strait standoff
DUBAI: President Donald Trump has ordered the US military to “shoot and kill” small Iranian boats that deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz, he said on Thursday, a day after Iran again displayed its ability to thwart traffic through the...
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Iran attacks 3 ships in Strait day after ceasefire extended
DUBAI: Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them on Wednesday, intensifying its assault on shipping in the key waterway. The attacks came a day after US President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire while maintaining an...
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Clock ticks on ceasefire, Iran-US talks uncertain
ISLAMABAD: Last-minute ceasefire talks between the United States and Iran looked uncertain Tuesday as a two-week truce was set to expire and both countries warned that, without a deal, they were prepared to resume fighting. US Vice President JD Vance,...
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CEASEFIRE AT RISK AFTER U.S. SEIZES IRANIAN SHIP; TEHRAN SHUNS PEACE TALKS
DUBAI: A ceasefire between the United States and Iran appeared in jeopardy on Monday after the United States said it had seized an Iranian cargo ship that tried to run its blockade and Tehran vowed to retaliate, refusing for now to join new peace...
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Trump says new talks, but confusion persists
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said his negotiators will head to Pakistan on Monday for talks with Iran, lifting hopes of extending a ceasefire set to expire this week even as Washington and Tehran remain locked in a standoff over the Strait of...
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Indian ships come under fire as Iran closes Hormuz again
NEW DELHI: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired at two Indianflagged merchant vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, prompting the external affairs ministry to call in the Iranian envoy to lodge a formal protest over the incident. This was the first...
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Delimitation divide defeats bill to raise LS seats for women’s quota
NEW DELHI: A Constitution amendment bill to expand the size of the Lok Sabha and fasttrack 33% reservation for women failed to garner the required two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha on Friday, marking the first defeat of a government bill since the...
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LS expansion will be fair, says govt; Oppn wants it in writing
NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday attempted to convince the Opposition that the proposal to increase the Lok Sabha’s strength and fast-track 33% reservation for women would involve a proportional 50% rise in each state’s seats, thereby not hurting...
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Class 10: Trivandrum, Vijayawada top with 99.79% pass percentage; Delhi logs 97.38%
NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday declared the Class 10 results for 2026, recording a marginal improvement of 0.04 percentage points in overall performance, with 93.70% students passing this year compared to 93.66%...
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Women’s quota: Bills seek to take LS seats up to 850 based on 2011 census
NEW DELHI: The government’s legislative push to reserve a third of the seats in Parliament and state legislative assemblies involves raising the cap on seats in the Lok Sabha from 550 to 850, with the allocation of seats to states, the reserved...
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IRAN THREATENS TO RETALIATE AGAINST GULF PORTS FOR U.S. BLOCKADE
WASHINGTON/DUBAI: The US military said it will begin a blockade of ships leaving Iran’s ports on Monday, and Tehran threatened to retaliate against ports of its Gulf neighbours after weekend talks on ending the war broke down, putting a ceasefire at...
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Talks fail, Trump says US will block Hormuz
ISLAMABAD: President Donald Trump on Sunday said the U.S. Navy would “immediately” begin a blockade of ships entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz, after US-Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan ended without an agreement or next diplomatic steps in...
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Iran-US direct talks begin in Pak amid fragile truce
ISLAMABAD: The US and Iran began historic face-to-face negotiations Saturday in Pakistan, days after a fragile, two-week ceasefire was announced, as the war that has killed thousands of people and shaken global markets entered its seventh week. The...
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Iran lays down red lines ahead of talks with US in Islamabad
Iran said on Friday that Iranian assets must be unblocked and a ceasefire take hold in Lebanon before peace talks with the United States can proceed, throwing last-minute doubt over negotiations scheduled for Saturday in Pakistan. Iran’s parliament...
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Crucial election cycle kicks off with high voter turnout
GUWAHATI/THIRUVANTHAPURAM/ NEW DELHI: Assembly elections in Assam and Puducherry produced record voter turnouts on Thursday while Kerala recorded its highest participation in nearly four decades, as all three went to the polls in a single phase — and a...
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Conflicting claims cloud nth-hour ceasefire
TEHRAN: Hours after a last-minute ceasefire was announced, the United States demanded Wednesday that Iran immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz after the Islamic Republic closed the waterway in response to Israeli attacks against the Hezbollah...
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‘A whole civilisation will die’: Trump’s latest threat to Iran
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump threatened Iran with civilisational destruction as the US attacked military targets on the country’s key oil export hub, ramping up pressure on Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday morning (Tehran...
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Trump threatens Tehran with night of destruction
TEHRAN: Iran on Monday rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wants a permanent end to the war, while President Donald Trump appeared to widen his threat from civilian targets to the whole Islamic Republic and his ultimatum ticked...
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ARTEMIS ASTRONAUTS GLIMPSE MOON’S ‘GRAND CANYON’ AHEAD OF LUNAR FLYBY
HOUSTON: The Artemis astronauts have taken in sights of the Moon never before seen by human eyes, crew members reported on Sunday as their spacecraft crossed the twothirds mark on their journey to a long-anticipated lunar flyby. As the astronauts went...
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Trump gives new ultimatum, hunt for US pilot intensifies
TEL AVIV: The US military on Saturday searched for a missing pilot shot down over a remote area in Iran, while President Donald Trump remained silent on the incident but reminded Tehran of his Monday deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz: “48 hours...
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US F-15 downed, Gulf energy sites hit as talks go nowhere
WASHINGTON: Iran shot down a US fighter jet for the first time in the war and targeted more sites, including energy facilities, in Arab Gulf states even as a handful of ships transited the Strait of Hormuz by using a new route hugging the Omani...
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Trump dashes hopes of quick end to war as Iran continues Gulf strikes
DUBAI: Iran fired more missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states Thursday, demonstrating Tehran’s continued ability to strike its neighbours even as US President Donald Trump claimed in a televised address the threat from the country was nearly...
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ARTEMIS II MISSION: REACHING FOR THE MOON
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. : It’s humanity’s first flight to the Moon since 1972. In a throwback to Apollo, Nasa’s Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around on Wednesday (US time). Liftoff is set for 22.24 GMT (IST 3:54 am...
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U.S. SAYS COMING DAYS IN IRAN WAR WILL BE DECISIVE, URGES TEHRAN TO MAKE A DEAL
JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday the next few days in the war against Iran would be decisive and warned Tehran that the conflict would intensify if it did not make a deal. Hegseth issued his warning hours after...
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IRAN TERMS U.S. PEACE PROPOSALS UNREALISTIC, TRUMP ISSUES FRESH WARNING TO TEHRAN
TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD President Donald Trump warned on Monday that Iran’s energy plants and oil wells would be obliterated if it did not open the Strait of Hormuz, after Tehran described US peace proposals as unrealistic and fired waves of...
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Iran warns US on ground war as regional diplomats huddle
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Sunday that it will soon host talks between the US and Iran, though there was no immediate word from Washington or Tehran, and it was unclear whether the talks would be direct or indirect. “Pakistan is very happy that both...
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A month on, truce hopes dim, war inches closer to Red Sea
DUBAI: Iranian-backed Houthi rebels entered the month-old war in the Middle East on Saturday, claiming a missile launch that Israel said it intercepted. Pakistan said regional powers plan to meet Sunday to discuss how to end the fighting, while Iran...
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RUBIO: CAN ACHIEVE IRAN GOALS WITHOUT GROUND TROOPS
DUBAI: Iran’s nuclear facilities came under attack on Friday, state media reported, just hours after Israel threatened to “escalate and expand” its campaign against Tehran. Iran quickly threatened to retaliate and Israel claimed responsibility for the...
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Iran, US stick to their guns, Trump says unsure of deal
DUBAI: Iran and the US appeared at an impasse on Thursday, hardening their positions over ceasefire talks and setting the stage for another potential escalation in the West Asia conflict. A US proposal for ending nearly four weeks of fighting is...
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NASA PLANS MOON BASE, NUKE SPACECRAFT IN PROGRAMME EXPANSION expanding humanity’s footprint in space
WASHINGTON: Nasa announced on Tuesday it has cancelled plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead use components from the project to build a $20-billion base on the Moon’s surface, while also planning to send a nuclear-powered...
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Missiles hit Tehran, Tel Aviv amid uncertainty over talks
DUBAI: Airstrikes battered Iran and Iranian missiles and drones targeted Israel’s Tel Aviv and sites across the Mideast on Tuesday, even as President Donald Trump said the US was in talks with the Islamic Republic to end the war. With thousands more...
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Iran threatens key infra after Trump’s Hormuz ultimatum
ARAD: The US and Iran threatened to target critical infrastructure Sunday as the war in the Middle East, now in its fourth week, puts lives and livelihoods at risk throughout the region. Iran said the Strait of Hormuz, crucial to oil and other...
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Israel strikes Iran N-plant again, Tehran aims for British-US base
CAIRO: Iran targeted a joint UK-US base in the Indian Ocean, and Iran’s main nuclear enrichment site was struck again, as the war in West Asia entered its fourth week. Iran’s attack on the Diego Garcia air base — about 4,000km away — suggested Tehran...
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Iran threatens world tourism spots as more leaders killed
DUBAI: Iran threatened to target recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insisted it was still building missiles. Its supreme leader issued another defiant statement on Friday, nearly three weeks into US-Israeli strikes that have killed a slew of...
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EXTENSIVE DAMAGE FEARED AT KEY ENERGY SITES AS IRAN, ISRAEL TRADE BLOWS
Iran attacked energy infrastructure in the Middle East in retaliation against Israeli attacks on it gas facilities, marking the biggest escalation of the nearly three-week war, sparking a 28% surge in European gas prices and 6% jump in oil prices on...
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LARGE HADRON COLLIDER DISCOVERS NEW PROTON-LIKE PARTICLE
The Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new particle, the 80th identified so far by the world’s most powerful particle smasher, Europe’s CERN physics laboratory announced Tuesday. The new particle has been named “Xi-cc-plus”. Scientists hope the...
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Iran rejects talks as Israel says killed security chief
DUBAI/JERUSALEM: Israel said on Tuesday it had killed Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani, the most senior figure targeted since the war’s first day, while a top Iranian official said the new supreme leader had rejected de-escalation offers conveyed by...
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US embassy hit as Iran strikes back over bombing on island
DUBAI: President Donald Trump’s administration has rebuffed efforts by West Asian allies to start diplomatic negotiations aimed at ending the Iran war, news agency Reuters reported on Saturday, as the conflict spiralled after the US struck military...
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Iran targets more merchant ships, warns of $200 oil, extended war
DUBAI: Iran said the world should be ready for oil at $200 a barrel as its forces hit merchant ships on Wednesday and the International Energy Agency recommended a massive release of strategic reserves to dampen one of the worst oil shocks since the...
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Govt invokes ESMA; gas for households, cars top priority
NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday moved to ration natural gas supplies, prioritising households receiving piped gas, vehicles running on compressed natural gas (CNG), and units producing cooking gas (LPG), as the conflict in West Asia disrupts...
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Indian killed in Saudi amid rising hits on civilian infra
DUBAI: An Indian and a Bangladeshi were killed in Saudi Arabia when a “military projectile” fell onto a residential area in Al Kharj governorate south of Riyadh, the country’s civil defence agency said on Sunday, as the Iran war’s targets widened into...
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