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Centre unveils policy to tackle terror threats
The Union Home Ministry on Monday released the country’s firstever antiterror policy, emphasising that other than terror sponsored from across the border, “criminal hackers and nation states continue to target India through cyberattacks”. The...
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Nations facing tariffs must unionise, says Lula
Instead of negotiating with the U.S. on tariffs separately, countries should form “negotiating blocs”, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said here on Sunday, advocating for “unionisation” of those suffering from the tariffs. Mr. Lula,...
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‘India studying implications of U.S. tariff moves’
While the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the reciprocal tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on various countries, including India, several other tariffs remain that continue to hurt various sectors, trade analysts and export data show. In a...
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Trump tariffs
The United States Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s farreaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda. The 63 decision centres on tariffs imposed under an emergency...
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Britain’s former Duke Andrew arrested over connections with Epstein
Britain’s former Duke of York, Andrew MountbattenWindsor (formerly, ‘Prince Andrew’), was arrested and taken into custody early on Thursday morning, over his connection to Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased American child sex offender and financier. The...
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Nvidia, OpenAI announce partnerships with Indian firms, academic institutes
U.S. tech giants Nvidia and OpenAI on Wednesday announced partnerships with Indian industry and academia at the ongoing AI Impact Summit. The former will work with three firms – Yotta (which runs data centres), L&T, and E2E Networks. The latter has...
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India-France partnership is a force for stability in the world, says PM
India and France elevated their relationship to a ‘special global strategic partnership’ on Tuesday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi met French President Emmanuel Macron. The meeting also saw the amendment of the protocol on Double Taxation Avoidance...
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NGT gives clearance to Great Nicobar project
ABench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday cleared the way for the ₹92,000crore Great Nicobar Island megainfrastructure project, noting that “considering the strategic importance” of it and “other relevant considerations”, “we do not find...
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Trade deals made from position of strength: PM
India recently entered into a slew of trade agreements, including with the European Union and the United States, “from a position of strength”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday, adding that these deals were designed to expand global market...
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New Central fund to drive urban development
The Union Cabinet on Friday approved the launch of the Urban Challenge Fund (UCF), a new Centrally sponsored scheme of the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry with ₹1 lakh crore Central assistance. In a statement, the government said the scheme...
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BNP secures landslide victory in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led by chairman Tarique Rahman, is set to return to power in Dhaka after two decades, following a landslide victory in the February 12 parliamentary election, winning an absolute majority of seats, according to the...
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Retail inflation at 2.75% in new Consumer Price Index with 2024 as the base year
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Thursday released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data based on a new series with 2024 as base year, placing retail inflation in January 2026 at 2.75%. As this is the first data release...
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Govt. plans guidelines on books by veterans
Amid the controversy surrounding the unpublished memoir, Four Stars of Destiny, of former Army chief General M.M. Naravane ((retd.), the Defence Ministry is working on detailed guidelines for serving and retired armed forces personnel who wish to...
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Opposition MPs submit notice seeking removal of Om Birla as LS Speaker
Opposition parties belonging to the Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on Tuesday submitted a notice to the SecretaryGeneral of the Lok Sabha, seeking the removal of Speaker Om Birla for allegedly conducting the business of the...
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‘Restrictive’ software tools used for SIR: SC
The Supreme Court on Monday said the Election Commission (EC) was using “very restrictive” software tools, at least in the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal, with scant tolerance for “natural” differences and inconsistencies...
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India and Malaysia sign pacts to expand ties
India and Malaysia on Sunday vowed to expand their ties in the highpriority sectors of trade and investment, defence, energy, advanced manufacturing and semiconductors with Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserting that both sides are committed to peace...
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India, U.S. unveil framework for trade deal
India will remove or reduce tariffs on all industrial goods and a “wide range” of agricultural goods imported from the United States, according to the joint statement issued by the two countries on Saturday morning. In return, the U.S. will reduce its...
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Oil imports from Russia hit 38-month low
The value of India’s crude oil imports from Russia fell to a 38month low of $2.7 billion in December 2025, with Russian oil making up less than a quarter of India’s imports, down from 34% just a month before, an analysis of the latest official data...
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Explosion in illegal Meghalaya mine kills 18
An explosion in an illegally operated rathole coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district killed 18 miners on Thursday, officials said. This is one of the biggest miningrelated tragedies since July 2012, when 15 miners died in a flooded...
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President’s rule ends in Manipur; CM sworn in
The installation of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)led National Democratic Alliance government, with a Meitei leader at the helm, brought an end to nearly a year of President’s Rule in Manipur on Wednesday. Around 6 p.m., Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar...
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U.S. deal excludes sensitive sectors: Goyal
he trade deal with the United States, announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media late on Monday night, will exclude sensitive agricultural items and dairy, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday,...
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U.S. tariff on India cut to 18%, say Modi, Trump
Indicating a positive turn in a bilateral relationship that had been under strain from multiple issues, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that “Made in India” products would “now” attract a “reduced tariff of 18%” in the U.S., after a telephonic...
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Capex scale-up
hile acknowledging the strains created by the external global environment, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday presented the Union Budget 2026 in Parliament, with the aim ofi ncreasing productivity across sectors and ensuring employment...
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Sunetra sworn in as Deputy CM of Maharashtra
Aday after the conclusion of the threeday State mourning for late Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar, who died in an air crash in Baramati on January 28, his wife Sunetra Pawar was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra...
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Menstrual health in schools is integral to right to life: SC
The Supreme Court on Friday declared that the right to menstrual health and access to menstrual hygiene management (MHM) measures in educational institutions is part of the fundamental right to life and dignity under Article 21 of the...
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Survey predicts upbeat India, troubled world
The Economic Survey 202526 on Thursday painted a relatively rosy picture of India’s domestic growth outlook, raising the country’s mediumterm forecast to 7% from the earlier estimate of 6.5%. However, it simultaneously outlined a relatively grim...
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Ajit Pawar killed in air crash; foul play denied
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party supremo Ajit Pawar was killed in a plane crash in Baramati on Wednesday morning, along with four others on board. The Learjet 45 aircraft, belonging to Delhibased charter company VSR...
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‘Mother of all deals’: India and the EU finalise FTA
After almost two decades of negotiation, India and the European Union (EU) finalised a free trade agreement (FTA) on Tuesday, billed as the “mother of all deals”, that will see the EU drop tariffs on 99.5% of Indian exports to the 27nation...
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India is a herald of peace in a world that is marked by conflicts, says President
President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday said India was spreading the message of peace in a world marked by conflict, asserting that global harmony was essential for securing the future of humanity. Addressing the nation on the eve of the 77th Republic Day,...
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3.5 lakh ‘unmapped’ voters yet to appear for SIR hearing in Bengal
About 3.5 lakh voters marked as “unmapped” under the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in West Bengal have not turned up for hearings, raising concern among election officials. During the first phase of the SIR in the State, about...
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PM makes ‘double-engine’ push
In his first major message in pollbound Tamil Nadu, BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the State needs an “NDA doubleengine government”, which would march “shouldertoshoulder” with the Union government to achieve overall...
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Tension rises in Manipur after Meitei man is abducted, killed
A29yearold man was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Churachandpur district of Manipur on Wednesday night, security officials said. The killing was recorded on camera. Mayanglambam Rishikant Singh, a resident of Kakching, belonged to the...
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EC discretion during SIR is not unregulated authority, says SC
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Election Commission (EC) is blessed with the “widest discretions” but its “deviations” while revising electoral rolls, as in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) exercise, cannot be “untrammelled or...
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Governor altered policy speech in Assembly, says Kerala CM
The Kerala Legislative Assembly saw extraordinary scenes on Tuesday after Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar had made changes to the policy speech prepared by the State government while delivering the customary...
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SC flags ‘stress’ triggered by SIR in Bengal
The Supreme Court on Monday urged the Election Commission to avert causing “stress and strain” through its ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) exercise to the ordinary people of West Bengal, where approximately 1.36 crore people, almost 20% of the...
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8 Opposition leaders booked as row over Manikarnika Ghat intensifies
A war of words erupted on Sunday between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Opposition parties after multiple first information reports (FIRs) were lodged in Varanasi against those allegedly spreading AIgenerated images and misleading...
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SC rejects Justice Varma’s challenge to formation of House inquiry committee
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a petition by Justice Yashwant Varma challenging the Lok Sabha Speaker’s constitution of a committee to inquire into a motion for his removal, underscoring that safeguards for judges cannot paralyse the removal...
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Swift executions of protesters likely: Iran
The head of Iran’s judiciary defied a warning from U.S. President Donald Trump and signalled on Wednesday that there would be swift trials and executions ahead for those detained in nationwide protests. The comments from Iran’s judiciary chief...
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India, Germany sign pact to shore up defence industrial cooperation
India and Germany will enhance defence trade with an eye on ‘coproduction and codevelopment,’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, as the two sides signed an agreement to strengthen bilateral defence industrial cooperation. Welcoming German...
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Iran defies U.S. threat, clamps down on protests
Protests sweeping across Iran neared the twoweek mark on Saturday, with the country’s government acknowledging the ongoing demonstrations despite an intensifying crackdown and as the Islamic Republic remains cut off from the rest of the world. With...
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Mamata, ED lock horns over raid at IPAC office
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Thursday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of removing evidence from two locations during a raid against the political consultancy firm Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC) in Kolkata. The...
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EC tells SC it has duty to weed out foreigners
The Election Commission of India (EC) began its defence of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls before the Supreme Court on Tuesday by dismissing claims that it is conducting a “parallel” National Register of Citizens (NRC)...
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Trump asserts India cut import of Russian crude to please him
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday asserted that India cut its oil imports from Russia in recent months in an effort to “make him happy”, and to secure the IndiaU.S. trade deal, even as he threatened more tariffs could “come quickly” if India...
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Maduro in NY jail, V-P to take over in Caracas
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was held in a New York prison on Sunday to face criminal charges after being captured in a nighttime military operation done without approval from the U.S. Congress, even as the South American country’s top court...
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U.S. captures Maduro after strikes on Venezuela
The United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and took him out of the country on Saturday after an extraordinary nighttime operation that was accompanied by a flurry of strikes, following months of escalating pressure on the oilrich...
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Tobacco tax rejig to take effect from Feb. 1
The Union Finance Ministry on Thursday issued a series of notifications that will give effect to the new taxation regime for tobacco products from February 1. The Central Excise (Amendment) Act, 2025, passed in the recently concluded Winter Session of...
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Indore official axed as deaths linked to ‘unsafe’ water hit 10
An official was dismissed from service and two others suspended even as the death toll climbed to 10 in Indore city of Madhya Pradesh where more than 2,000 people have fallen ill after consuming contaminated water supplied by the municipal corporation,...
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EC gives one more week for U.P. SIR in another extension
The Election Commission of India (EC) on Tuesday revised the schedule for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh yet again, extending it by a week. Now the draft list will be published on January 6, instead of...
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SC pauses Aravalli ruling, moots new panel
The Supreme Court on Monday kept in abeyance its November 20 judgment upholding a government expert panel definition restricting the world’s oldest surviving mountain system, the Aravalli Range, to hills sporting an elevation of 100 metres or above,...
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EC relaxes order ‘summoning’ Bengal voters
The Election Commission of India (EC), in a fresh set of instructions, has asked district election officials (DEOs) in West Bengal not to summon for hearings those voters identified as “unmapped” but whose names or ancestral connections were present on...
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10.56 lakh names cut on draft rolls in Assam
The names of 10.56 lakh voters have been deleted on the draft electoral rolls of Assam which were published on Saturday after a housetohouse verification of the voter lists during the special revision exercise conducted by the Election Commission in...
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BNP leader returns home, says Bangladesh should be secure home for all communities
Bangladesh should be a “secure” home for all communities cutting across religious and regional differences, said the acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Tarique Rahman, on Thursday following his return home after nearly 18 years...
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Dhaka braces for return of BNP’s leader ahead of general elections
After nearly 18 years in exile in the United Kingdom, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman will return to Dhaka on Thursday, formally marking the official launch of the party’s campaign for the February 12 general...
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Protests erupt near Bangladesh embassy
Hundreds of supporters of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal gathered near the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi on Tuesday and demanded safety for the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh. Protests were also held outside the...
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India, New Zealand conclude trade talks
India and New Zealand on Monday concluded discussions on a free trade agreement (FTA) that will give India tarifffree access to the island nation’s markets, bring in $20 billion in investments over 15 years, and help double bilateral trade to $5...
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Watching crisis in Bangladesh closely: India
India on Sunday described the killing of a Hindu youth in Bangladesh as a “horrendous act”, and expressed “strong concern” about the safety of minority communities in the neighbouring country. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal...
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U.S. wants India’s nuclear norms globally aligned
Two days after Parliament cleared the SHANTI Bill, which allows private participation in India’s nuclear sector and eases liability norms by capping operator liability for a nuclear incident to ₹3,000 crore, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed...
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India signs pact with Oman for duty-free exports; will also allow labour mobility
India and Oman signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on Thursday, under which Oman will provide India dutyfree access to 98.08% of its tariff lines, covering 99.38% of India’s exports to Oman. India, on the other hand, has...
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LS clears nuclear Bill allowing privatisation
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, 2025, despite demands by several Opposition parliamentarians for referring the legislation to a parliamentary...
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At least 13 people killed, 60 injured in pile-up on Yamuna Expressway
At least 13 people were killed and 60 injured in a massive vehicle pileup on the AgraLucknow Yamuna Expressway in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh in the early hours of Tuesday. Eight buses and three smaller vehicles rammed into each other due to...
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New job guarantee plan to be supply-driven
The Union government is set to introduce the Viksit Bharat — Guarantee For Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 in the Lok Sabha. The move will mark a shift from...
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Gunmen kill 11 at Jewish event in Sydney
At least 11 people were killed and 29 wounded when gunmen fired on a Jewish holiday event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday in what Australian police and officials described as a terrorist attack. One suspected gunman was killed and another was in a...
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Former BJP MLA Guttedar, son named prime accused in Aland voter fraud case
Former BJP MLA Subhash Guttedar and his son Harshananda Guttedar have been named as the prime accused in the chargesheet filed by the Karnataka police special investigation team (SIT) that is probing voter fraud in the Aland Assembly constituency ahead...
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EC extends deadline for SIR in 5 States, 1 U.T.
The Election Commission has extended the schedule of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in five States and one Union Territory: Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, and the Andaman and Nicobar...
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Social media ban for youth takes effect in Australia
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a worldfirst social media ban for children younger than 16, that took effect on Wednesday, as families taking back power from tech giants but warned the implementation would be difficult. Many...
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Citizenship under CAA only after scrutiny: SC
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said conferment of rights associated with Indian citizenship to people claiming to be religious minorities who fled persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh and protected under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act,...
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Govt., Opposition spar over Vande Mataram
The Centre and the Opposition on Monday sparred in the Lok Sabha over Vande Mataram, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi terming it the voice of the freedom movement that had been “fragmented” by the Congress in its “surrender before the Muslim...
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Blaze at Goa nightclub kills 25; four detained
Amassive fire erupted at a nightclub in north Goa just before midnight on Saturday, leaving 25 people dead and six injured. The initial police investigation found that the blaze was caused by a fire show with “electric firecrackers”, organised without...
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As crisis continues, govt. sets cap on airfares
The Union government imposed caps on airfares, set a timeline for refunds, and announced special trains to help stranded passengers on Saturday, as IndiGo, the country’s largest domestic airline, began a slow return to normalcy. The airline has...
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India-Russia friendship like the pole star: PM
Appreciating Russian President Vladimir Putin for taking the IndiaRussia relationship to “new heights” over the past quarter of a century, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid out an expansive canvas of energy and trade collaborations between the two...
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PM welcomes Putin at airport in warm gesture, hails IndiaRussia partnership
In a special gesture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin upon his arrival at the Air Force Station, Palam on Thursday evening, ahead of the IndiaRussia annual summit scheduled for Friday. This is Mr. Putin’s first...
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Govt. withdraws order on Sanchar Saathi app
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Wednesday walked back its directions to phone manufacturers ordering them to install a government app starting next year. The reversal caps a controversial episode, in which the government first downplayed...
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Govt. plan to ‘pre-install’ app triggers storm
The Union government’s mandate on Monday for smartphone makers to preinstall the Sanchar Saathi app sparked backlash from the Opposition and from digital rights activists. Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge wrote on X that...
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SC tasks CBI to tackle ‘digital arrests’
The Supreme Court on Monday tasked the Central Bureau of Investigation with cracking down on ‘digital arrest’ scammers and their associates, giving the agency a “free hand” to launch an anticorruption probe into bankers involved in the opening of mule...
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Cyclone Ditwah weakens; torrential rain claims three lives, damages crops in T.N.
Cyclone Ditwah began to weaken on Sunday even as it continued its slow northward movement over the Bay of Bengal, parallel to the coast of northern Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Torrential rain led to three deaths, with two people killed by collapsing...
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