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U.S. MoU best way out of war, says Iran President
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday defended a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United States as the best way out of a stalled war while also acknowledging that his country’s citizens face “many problems”. The MoU signed in midJune...
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Cong. alleges bulk voter purge bid in Uttarakhand
Congress leaders in Uttarakhand have alleged that the Election Commission (EC) is accepting and processing unveried bulk applications to delete voters’ names during the claims and objections period of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of...
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CJP team attacked during attempt to inspect school
Ateam of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) activists was allegedly assaulted and chased out of Rampura-Kanwarpura village near Jaipur on Friday, when it attempted to inspect a government school as part of the organisation’s ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign. The...
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New code voids 1978 definition of ‘industry’: SC
Under Industrial Relations Code, the interpretation will be on its ‘own text and context’, says the top court; 1978 verdict, authored by Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, enabled workers to have legal recourse against unfair labour practices by employers;...
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Reforms at NTA must be enduring, says SC
The Supreme Court on Wednesday emphasised the need for institutionalising reforms within the National Testing Agency (NTA) while indicating that the government must not hop from one committee to the next in search of solutions. The court made it clear...
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SC to quash FIRs against student protesters
Top court agrees to invoke Article 142 to quash cases filed against students over NEET protests Court is to form panel to examine protest issues; police yet to disclose list of FIRs, say petitioners SolicitorGeneral says police will confine probe to...
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Soren scraps key examinations as student protests rock Jharkhand
harkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday announced the cancellation of the Jharkhand Sta Selection Commission-Combined Graduate Level ( JSSC-CGL) examination, 24 days after students and job aspirants began a protest over alleged irregularities...
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Bangladesh sets ‘terms’ for India visit by PM
he Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Aairs said on Sunday that ocials from New Delhi and Dhaka have been in talks for “several weeks” for a possible visit to India by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. It also said that the atmosphere of bilateral relations...
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Modi pitches reforms, reaches out to Gen Z
He warns that ‘intellectual Naxals’ are trying to revive violence and calls for their isolation Modi announces a civil defence overhaul to protect critical infrastructure from threats Addressing the nation from the ramparts of Red Fort on the 80th...
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India helps China evade tari
ndia is once again in U.S. crosshairs, this time for allegedly allowing China to evade U.S. taris by routing its exports through the country. The latest allegations are part of a new White House report called ‘The Great Transshipment Scam’. In...
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Jharkhand Police lodge FIRs against 500 protesters
As the students’ protest over alleged irregularities in Jharkhand recruitment examinations entered its 20th day on Thursday, the State police registered rst information reports (FIRs) against more than 500 unnamed protesters who marched towards the...
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Centre refers FCRA Bill to JPC; Opposition calls for withdrawal
he Lok Sabha on Wednesday adopted a motion referring the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), amid a huge uproar by the Opposition which demanded that the Bill be withdrawn as it was intended...
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Amid backlash, govt. to refer FCRA Bill to JPC
aced with demands to scrap the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, from di¦erent corners of the country on Tuesday — from a unanimous resolution passed in the Tamil Nadu Assembly to mass protests in the streets of Mizoram — the...
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Protesters march to Jharkhand Assembly; 5 injured in clashes
housands of students and job aspirants from across Jharkhand marched towards the State Assembly in Ranchi on Monday. They broke through barbed barricades and reached the Assembly gates as their indenite strike over alleged irregularities in government...
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Netanyahu rejects Trump’s Gaza proposal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected a U.S.-led Gaza plan endorsed by Hamas, putting distance between himself and U.S. President Donald Trump as he tries to shore up his base ahead of coming elections. After more than a week of...
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More than 1.5 crore names o poll rolls in latest phase of SIR
More than 1.5 crore names have been deleted so far from the existing voter lists in the ongoing third phase of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls conducted by the Election Commission. Of the 16 States and three Union Territories...
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Pak., Saudi Arabia, Turkiye ink defence deal
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye on Friday signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca committing “collective defence” and “collective deterrence”, at a time when Saudi Arabia is under attack from Yemen’s Houthis and West Asia remains engulfed in the...
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DMK sets its terms to back delimitation Bill
As the Narendra Modi government explores the possibility of bringing in a constitutional amendment Bill to carry out a fresh delimitation exercise, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) may consider extending support if the Centre revises the legislation...
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Rijiju meets Rahul to end Parliament logjam
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju met Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday in an e¨ort to break the deadlock in Parliament, with the two sides discussing the proposed delimitation Bill and the Foreign...
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Udhayanidhi Stalin held for ‘misogynist’ remarks
Tamil Nadu’s Leader of the Opposition and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) youth wing leader Udhayanidhi Stalin was arrested by police on Tuesday morning following a complaint led by a functionary of the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) accusing...
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Prashant Kishor storms BJP citadel in Bankipur
Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor scripted a major political upset in Bihar by defeating the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate in the Bankipur Assembly byelection, a constituency represented for ve consecutive terms by the BJP’s...
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Cauvery situation better, says Karnataka CM
Stating that the water situation in the Cauvery was “slightly better” in view of the rain, Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Sunday reiterated his appeal to the Kannada organisations to withdraw their Statewide bandh plan for August...
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8 killed as extremely heavy rain lashes Kerala
Eight people died in rain-related incidents in Kerala as a spell of intense rain battered the State from Friday night into Saturday, triggering landslips, ash oods, and widespread destruction, particularly in hilly regions. This comes barely a month...
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Trump touts Gaza deal, Hamas seeks Israeli exit
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday announced that the Board of Peace, an organisation Washington established to oversee a Gaza ceasere, has reached a “historic agreement” for the disarmament of Hamas and other militant organisations in the...
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Pellet guns part of graded police response, says SC
The Supreme Court on Thursday said the use of pellet guns by the police in “exceptional circumstances” was part of a graded approach to break civilian protests. The court, however, did not expand on which “exceptional circumstances” justied the use of...
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SC restricts ‘retrospective’ green clearances
The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed, with prospective eect, a 2021 Oce Memorandum (OM) granting ex post facto environmental clearances to infrastructure projects, holding that the Union government cannot substantially alter protective...
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Release minors held during students’ stir: SC
The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated that it would consider constituting a high-powered investigation team to conduct a “thorough, fair, and independent” inquiry into allegations of police excesses during the recent student protests in Delhi and...
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CJP warns of fresh protests over government’s ‘breach of promise’
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Monday warned of fresh protests, accusing the Centre of violating its assurance that no punitive action would be taken against protesters. “We are observing a complete breach of the agreement regarding no police...
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Nilekani to lead task force on exams: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced the constitution of a highpowered task force, to be headed by former UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani, to recommend steps to make the country’s examination system leak-proof and technology-driven. The...
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Dharmendra Pradhan quits; CJP calls o stir
As the student protests over paper leaks spread across di erent States and snowballed into a major political crisis for the Narendra Modi government, Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as the Education Minister on Saturday, prompting the Cockroach Janta Party...
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SC to hear pleas alleging police excesses
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear on Monday two freshly instituted petitions alleging police excesses during the July 20 crackdown on student protesters in the national capital. The development came hours after Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya...
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PM reaches out to students; Wangchuk ends fast
Activist Sonam Wangchuk, who was on a hunger strike demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the NEET irregularities, ended his fast late on Thursday night. The move came even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a...
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HC asks Delhi Police to explain its actions
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Centre and the Delhi Police to respond to a batch of public interest litigation (PIL) petitions alleging that the police used excessive force against students and other protesters during the Parliament march...
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Cong. leaders held after sit-in at PM’s home
he principal Opposition party, the Congress, on Tuesday took the leadership of the anti-government agitation protesting the spate of paper leaks and seeking education reform, with the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, leading a...
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Several hurt in crackdown on CJP stir
Several people were injured here on Monday when the police cracked down on a Parliament march called by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) seeking the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan even as the government reached out to the...
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11 killed in J&K as rain triggers ash oods
Eleven people were killed, and 10 went missing in ash oods triggered by torrential rain in Poonch and Rajouri districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, ocials said. Nine deaths were reported from Poonch and two from Rajouri. Initial assessment...
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India’s rst privately made orbital rocket Vikram-1 places payloads into orbit
Despite deteriorating health conditions, at least 21 protesters from across the country continued their hunger strike at Jantar Mantar on Saturday, saying that activist Sonam Wangchuk’s hospitalisation had only reinforced their determination to...
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SC opposes use of SIR data for non-poll tasks
he Supreme Court stated on Friday that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is only linked to elections as a petition said the West Bengal government is using SIR data to delete names from schemes ensuring food security, women’s welfare and Backward...
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Wangchuk frail; Delhi HC orders monitoring
With activist Sonam Wangchuk’s health condition worsening on the 19th day of his indenite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, the Delhi High Court ordered the Union and Delhi governments to ensure regular monitoring of his health. Doctors warned on...
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Iran threatens ‘to halt all regional oil exports’
Returning to war nearly a month after signing a memorandum of understanding towards peace in West Asia, the U.S. and Iran on Wednesday launched strikes on targets across the region. While the U.S. Central Command said it launched “a wave of strikes......
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SC weighs SOP for urgent cases a ecting citizens’ life and liberty
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider framing a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to allow citizens to knock on the doors of the courts any time, day or night, in cases aecting life and liberty, including illegal detentions, imminent...
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Citizenship rulings must be ‘fair, lawful’: SC
The Supreme Court on Monday held that the determination of citizenship and foreigner status must be undertaken through a “fair, lawful, and reasoned” process, as it set aside a batch of 27 Gauhati High Court judgments declaring the appellants to be...
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Iranian regional reprisals follow U.S. attacks
The U.S. attacked Iran early on Sunday over an Iranian strike on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz that left one Indian sailor missing. Iran responded with attacks on several countries in West Asia, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, and...
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South’s nightingale whose voice regaled generations falls silent forever
The legendary playback singer S. Janaki, whose extraordinary voice dominated South Indian cinema for decades and whose songs continue to resonate across generations, died at the age of 88 in Mysuru, Karnataka, on Saturday. She was su ering from...
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HC halts byelections in 5 T.N. constituencies
The Madras High Court on Friday restrained the Election Commission (EC) from notifying byelections to the Tiruchi East, Perundurai, Ambasamudram, Viralimalai, and Karur Assembly constituencies until July 31. The elected representatives have resigned,...
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India, Australia move to deepen cooperation in the Indo-Paci c
India and Australia on Thursday adopted a Joint Declaration on Defence and Security Cooperation, committing to signi cantly deepen military engagement, strengthen defence industrial collaboration, and expand maritime security cooperation amid growing...
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Trump ends Iran truce; talks to go on
he cease re between the United States and Iran is “over”, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, while leaving the door open for more talks, after the two sides exchanged re amid a dispute over the status of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said the...
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3 killed in debris slip at tunnel site in Wayanad
Heap of excavated mud at a tunnel construction site in Kerala gives way amid rain; CM announces investigation; Minister says private construction rm ignored warnings by district administration At least three people were killed and ve reported missing...
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Form used in Census second phase rehearsal has ‘open column’ for caste
The questionnaire used in the rehearsal for the second phase of Census, which started in 16 States and Union Territories on Monday, has an “open column” for respondents to record their castes, several ocials involved in the exercise told The...
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Meta told to disable ‘child sex abuse’ content
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has directed Meta, the parent body of several social media platforms, to disable advertisements and content promoting and facilitating access to child sexual exploitative and abuse material (CSEAM)...
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India navigated West Asia crisis e ciently, says Modi
India successfully weathered the challenges triggered by the West Asia con ict through e ective assessment and strategic, timely decision-making while e ciently using its domestic resources and strong diplomatic ties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said...
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Centre opens power bids to four China-linked rms
In a sign of a continuing thaw in India’s stance on Chinese investments, the government has issued an order allowing four companies with Chinese ownership or links to bid for projects tendered by the Indian government in the power sector. The order,...
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Free Indo-Paci c priority for India, Japan: PM
A“free and rulesbased Indo-Paci c” is a common priority for India and Japan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday while welcoming his Japanese counterpart, Sanae Takaichi. Mr. Modi said India and Japan would jointly develop technologies that...
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GST revenues up 14% in June amid dependence on imports
The government’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue grew 13.9% to ₹1.95 lakh crore in June compared with the corresponding period in 2025, the highest year-on-year growth rate in 13 months. However, the bulk of this growth came from imports, with the...
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Monsoon de cit hits 40%; July outlook bleak
Rainfall in July – the most important of the monsoon months — will be “below normal” or less than 94% of what is usual for the month, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director-General, India Meteorological Department (IMD), said on Tuesday. India’s current...
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Radio-tagged white-rumped vulture electrocuted
A captive-bred, radiotagged white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis) that was released earlier this year at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu was electrocuted on Sunday. The bird came into contact with a power line and was...
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Indian Ocean a shared responsibility: Modi
India envisioned an Indian Ocean where maritime security was ensured alongside economic prosperity and where partnership was de ned not by size, but by mutual respect and trust, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday during his visit to the...
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Ram Temple Trust general secretary resigns
Amid the uproar over the Ram Temple donation embezzlement case, the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust on Saturday announced that its general secretary Champat Rai and member Anil Mishra had submitted their resignations. “At its next meeting,...
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All eight accused in Ram Temple fund case sent to judicial custody
The eight people named as the accused in a rst information report (FIR) regarding the alleged embezzlement of donations received at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya have been arrested and sent to judicial custody until Monday. “The eight accused will be...
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188 dead, 1,500 injured in Venezuela earthquakes
Apair of powerful earthquakes that rocked Venezuela have killed at least 188 people and left more than 1,500 hurt, officials said on Thursday as residents searched for loved ones trapped under rubble after many buildings were flattened within...
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Five killed as warehouse collapses in Kolkata
Five workers were killed and several injured as a warehouse under construction collapsed in the Taratala area of Kolkata, West Bengal, on Wednesday. At least 18 workers are feared to be trapped under the debris. The accident occurred shortly after...
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Centre tightens norms for foreign donations
Nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) wanting to access foreign funds must now stick to a list of activities specified by the Centre, according to the latest amendment to the Rules of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), 2010, notified on...
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15 die in U.P. building fire, victims mostly students
At least 15 people, mostly students, were killed and five injured in a fire that engulfed a threestorey commercial building housing a graphics animation coaching centre, a library, and a pet shop, in the Aliganj area of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh on...
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Ammonia leak kills two at T.N. seafood unit
Two migrant workers from Odisha were killed and more than 60 hospitalised after an ammonia gas leak at a shrimp processing unit in Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu on Sunday. Of those in hospital, 23 have been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. The...
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Iran ‘closes’ Hormuz amid attacks on Lebanon
Iran’s military on Saturday said it had once again closed the Strait of Hormuz, citing “violations” of the first clause of a recently signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the U.S., as Israeli strikes on Lebanon continued. “In light of the...
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HC upholds curbs on Telegram amid NEET row
The Delhi High Court on Friday upheld the Centre’s temporary ban on messaging platform Telegram, noting that the government’s action was proportionate and justified in view of the alleged use of the platform by organised cheating networks linked to the...
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Ukrainian drones set key Moscow refinery ablaze; flight services hit
Ukraine struck a major Moscow oil refinery on Thursday for a second time in a week, sending huge plumes of black smoke over the capital and disrupting flights at its airports in one of its biggest drone attacks since Russia’s invasion over four years...
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Modi meets Trump, raises safety of Indian sailors
rime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday raised the issue, in broad terms, of the safety of seafarers with U.S. President Trump during their bilateral meeting in Evian, France, on the fringes of the G7 Summit. “Mr. President, you are aware across the...
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India’s rainfall deficit 35% as monsoon stalls
Over a week past the monsoon’s normal arrival date, the rain clouds have yet to reach Mumbai, driving India’s nationwide monsoon deficit to 35% as of Tuesday. The shortfall in rainfall is concentrated in the regions the monsoon has failed to cover —...
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U.S., Iran reach deal to end war, re-open Strait
The U.S. and Iran have reached a preliminary agreement to end the war, lift blockades in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman, and launch substantive negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear programme and the Western sanctions, the two countries announced...
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Modi, Macron talks stress economic security
India and France adopted an ‘Innovation Roadmap 2030’ and established a Dialogue on Economic Security during bilateral talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron held in Nice on Sunday. A press release from the...
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Will sign deal to open Hormuz today: Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said a deal with Iran is scheduled to be signed on Sunday, reopening the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping, and that the U.S. would “go and get” Iran’s highly enriched uranium at a later stage, even as Tehran said...
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Attacks on ships ‘unacceptable’, says India
While condemning the U.S. attacks on three ships with Indian crew that killed three Indian seafarers, Esmaeil Baqaei, a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, on Friday, described them as “attacks on Indian commercial vessels.” Publicly...
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Trump pauses Iran strikes, says deal likely
After two days of titfortat strikes with Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would pause further attacks, just hours after threatening to hit the country “very hard” and seize Kharg Island and its energy infrastructure. He claimed...
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CID searches Mamata’s Kolkata premises
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Tuesday searched the residence of former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata in connection with the alleged forgery of the signatures of two Trinamool Congress MLAs. The CID...
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