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On the table: Global media outreach proposal with IIS officers in foreign missions

AIMING TO directly engage with media across the world, project India’s growth story and counter adverse narratives, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) has proposed to create a new global outreach unit within the Press Information...

Trump: Some countries not eager to help unblock Strait

PRESIDENT DONALD Trump on Monday repeated his call to nations to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz, and complained that some were not very enthusiastic about providing help to Washington. Trump wants nations to help police the strait after Iran...

AAP ‘education reform’ in Punjab: Marked progress but only 1 party MLA sends own kids to govt school

IN 2022, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) swept to power in Punjab with 92 of 117 Assembly seats, riding on a key promise based on its Delhi model: “Sikhya Kranti”, an “education revolution” that would transform government schools into institutions parents...

2 India-flagged LPG tankers cross, efforts on for 22 more ships: Govt

TWO INDIAN-FLAGGED liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tankers headed to ports in Gujarat transited the critical maritime chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz safely between Friday night and Saturday, the government announced on Saturday. It said diplomatic...

Will try our best: Iran envoy on safe passage for India-bound fuel ships

SIGNALLING HEADWAY in Delhi’s efforts to persuade Tehran to let India-bound fuel ships transit the Strait of Hormuz, Mohammad Fathali, Iran’s Ambassador to India, said Friday “we will try our best to remove the problems” and “I think you can expect...

Beijing adopts ethnic unity law that ‘erodes’ minority rights and cements assimilation

CHINA ADOPTED a sweeping law Thursday to promote what it calls “ethnic unity,” a measure that critics say would further erode the rights of some minority groups as authorities cement a push toward assimilation. The law, approved by the country’s...

‘Practically nothing left to target’ in Iran, war will end soon, says Trump

IRAN SAID the world should be prepared for oil to hit $200 a barrel as its forces attacked merchant ships on Wednesday in the blockaded Gulf. Iran also fired at Israel and targets across the Middle East on Wednesday, demonstrating it can still fight...

Heaviest day of strikes on a defiant Iran

The United States and israel pounded iran on Tuesday with what the Pentagon and iranians on the ground said were the most intense airstrikes of the war, despite global markets betting that President donald Trump will seek to end the conflict...

Oil tops $100 a barrel, gas shortage fear grips restaurants, tiles industry

WITH INTERNATIONAL crude oil prices surging to over $100 barrel due to the ongoing conflict in West Asia, gas shortage is slowly hitting commercial users of cooking gas or LPG, especially restaurants, in big cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, and...

Trump rejects settling war with Iran, Starmer speaks to him on West Asia

PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer spoke with US President Donald Trump on Sunday, while Trump said a day earlier he is not interested in negotiating with Iran and raised the possibility that the Iran war would only end once that country no longer has a...

It’s ‘Flashpoint Hormuz’ as US and Iran threaten each other

AS THE conflict in the Middle East halted shipping and energy exports through the vital Strait of Hormuz, a spokesperson for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards challenged US President Donald Trump to deploy US naval vessels to escort oil tankers through the...

Responded to Iran warship SOS, searched: Navy

A DAY after a US submarine torpedo sank an Iranian warship near Sri Lanka as it headed home after participating in Exercise MILAN and the International Fleet Review in Visakhapatnam, the Indian Navy said Thursday it had sent its aircraft and ships to...

US sinks Iran warship, returning from India, near Lanka; 87 killed

AN IRANIAN warship, which was returning from Visakhapatnam following an exercise organised by the Indian Navy last month, was torpedoed by a United States submarine off the southern coast of Sri Lanka in the early hours of Wednesday. In a Pentagon...

Someone from within best choice for Iran, says Trump as war rages

SHEDDING SOME light for the first time on his future plans for Iran, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said “someone from within” the Iranian regime might be the best choice to take power once the military campaign is over. Earlier in the day, Trump...

Trump on Iran: Big wave soon... boots on ground, if necessary

AS THE Us-israel military conflict with Iran intensified on Monday, US President Donald Trump sharply upped the ante saying “the big wave” is coming soon and that he did not rule out putting American boots on the ground in Iran. Speaking at an event in...

The Editorial Page: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards hold key to Islamic Republic’s future

War widens: US and Israel strike Iran which hits nations across Middle East

THE UNITED States and Israel attacked Iran Saturday, targeting its top leaders and calling for the overthrow of its government, while Iran responded with missiles fired at Israel and neighbouring Gulf countries. President Donald Trump who, in the...

Amid war hysteria, Iran & US hold new round of talks

IRAN AND the United States were holding another round of indirect talks in Geneva on Thursday to try to reach a deal on Tehran's nuclear program and potentially avert another war as the US gathers a massive fleet of aircraft and warships in the Middle...

Will not let anyone defame institution: CJI on NCERT book

TAKING note of a report by The Indian Express that the new Social Science textbook for Class 8 by national Council of educational Research and Training (NCERT) includes a section on “corruption in the judiciary”, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya...

Army-cartel battle rages a day after drug lord is killed

A DAY after the Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful drug lord, the picturesque town where it happened was a study in contrasts. Children whose classes had been suspended by the outbreak of violence played in cobblestone streets and tourist...

I-T brings Rs 14,601-cr undisclosed offshore investments to tax

DISCLOSING COLLECTIVE figures regarding this for the first time, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has said that Rs 14,601 crore worth offshore assets investigated by The Indian Express have been “brought to tax”. The reply to an RTI by the...

India pitch: Democratising AI, respecting sovereignty

AS PART of its key deliverables post the India AI Impact Summit, Delhi is likely to push for more “democratised” use of AI. A key focus is likely on affordability and access to the technology, a move which government officials say will counter the...

Iran briefly closes Strait of Hormuz as US, Tehran nuclear talks unfold

IRAN AND the United States reached an understanding on the main “guiding principles” in a second round of indirect talks over nuclear dispute on Tuesday, but it does not mean a deal is imminent, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said. “Different...

A new era of Innovation

The potential of AI to deliver population scale impact can be realized only with crucial collaboration across India’s academic, public and private ecosystems. From agriculture and healthcare to education and essential services, our partners are using...

Ishan blitz sinks Pakistan

IT DID not rain in Colombo as was feared. But it rained sixes and fours from the mighty willow of Ishan Kishan, it rained wickets for the excellent seampair of Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya, and later the guileful spin pack, ending in a comfortable...

Pannun plot: In Nikhil Gupta’s guilty plea, US Justice Dept names R&AW

THE US Department of Justice (DOJ) has confirmed that Indian national Nikhil Gupta, charged in the 2023 assassination plot against Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York, has pleaded guilty — and said that his sentence will be...

Landslide returns BNP, Rahman set to be Bangladesh PM

SIGNALLING THE start of a new chapter in the country’s history, the centre-right Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Tarique Rahman, returned to power Friday after nearly two decades, securing a landslide victory in the first

Jimmy Lai locked up for 20 years

HONG KONG'S most vocal China critic, media tycoon Jimmy Lai, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in jail, ending the city's biggest national security case which drew global concern about Beijing's clampdown on freedoms in the former British...

5 girls go out to play in Bihar village, only 1 returns — mystery continues

AGED 10 to 14, belonging to an impoverished Dalit settlement in Haspura block of Bihar’s Aurangabad district, the five girls had little to call their own except each other. Now, four are dead, the only survivor “unavailable” to tell what happened, and...

India, US reach interim deal

MOVING CLOSER to a bilateral trade pact, India and the US unveiled Saturday a framework for an interim trade agreement to lower tariffs and deepen economic ties after almost a year of negotiations. Thanking US President Donald Trump for “his personal...

Future perfect

VAIBHAV SOORYAVANSHI’S name loomed large on the 2026 U19 World Cup, and there was little until the final to justify that top billing. Then in a space of 80 balls he faced in the final against England, and inside of 25 overs, the teen wonder stamped a...

Can’t see me serving, so say ‘Modi teri kabr khudegi’: PM slams Cong

Picking On the slogan ‘ Modi teri kabr khudegi’ (Modi, your grave will be dug) used by some opposed to his government’s actions, Prime Minister narendra Modi, in one of his sharpest attacks on the Congress, said thursday that those who thought the...

Not just Naravane: 19-yr-old case shadows ex-officer’s book on R&AW ‘secrets’

TRIGGERING A political firestorm, the Government has asserted in Parliament that Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi cannot read excerpts from ex-army Chief General M M Naravane’s memoirs in the Lok Sabha since the book is yet to be published. What it...

Farmers secure, agriculture and dairy interests protected: Goyal

AMID CONCERNS that India has agreed to cut tariffs for agri goods and committed to buy more of these from the US, which may hurt farmers, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said Tuesday that the interests of sensitive sectors like...

India, US have a deal, 50% tariffs cut to 18%

ENDING ALMOST 11 months of uncertainty that saw bilateral relations plunge to their lowest in over two decades and the trust deficit deepen, India and the United States agreed to a historic trade deal Monday under which the US will reduce tariffs from...

In headwinds, Budget stays the course, batters markets with tax

IN THE face of global headwinds, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has chosen to stay the course, take a string of measures to shore up manufacturing, and continue to do the heavy lifting on core infrastructure spending, indicating continued...

Sunetra Pawar sworn in as first woman Dy CM of Maharashtra

THREE DAYS after Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar died in a plane crash near the Baramati airport, his wife Sunetra Pawar succeeded him at the forefront of the ruling Mahayuti alliance and was sworn in Saturday as the state’s first woman...

Survey flags drying up of FDI/FII flow, Re stability

UPGRADING THE economy’s potential growth rate to 7 per cent from 6.5 per cent three years ago, the Economic Survey for 2025-26 said the country is projected to grow by 6.8-7.2 per cent in the next financial year. Everything looks good — from growth,...

Ajit Pawar, Maharashtra’s Dy CM, killed in plane crash

THE CHARTERED plane that was carrying Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was airborne for around 35 minutes before crashing and killing all five people on board. The aircraft was a Bombardier Learjet 45, registered as VTSSK and operated by...

Cash for commoners, freedom for prisoners: Just sign up, fight against Ukraine

FOR AVERAGE wage earners in Russia, it's a big payday. For criminals seeking to escape the harsh conditions and abuse in prison, it's a chance at freedom. For immigrants hoping for a better life, it's a simplified path to citizenship. All they have to...

Key outcomes include 5-year comprehensive strategic agenda, mobility pact

AS NEW Delhi hosted leaders from the European Union on the occasion of India’s 77th Republic Day celebrations, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said a “successful India makes the world more stable, prosperous and secure”. European...

Top Chinese generals face probe for threatening party leadership

PLA DAILY, the mouthpiece of the Chinese military, has accused top military official Zhang Youxia and senior General Liu Zhenli of threatening the Communist Party's absolute leadership over the armed forces as one of the reasons why they were placed...

EU leaders begin visit, PM flags trade & mobility pacts

AS INDIA and the European Union (EU) aim to conclude their trade negotiations during the visit of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday underlined that...