Hindustan Times (Bathinda)
Modi draws battle lines in TN, Kerala
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM/ CHENNAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday embarked on a high-octane campaign across Kerala and Tamil Nadu, intensifying outreach, targeting incumbent state governments and highlighting National Democratic Alliance (Nda)-led...
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SC revives Bhojshala case, allows prayers at site today
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday revived proceedings before the Madhya Pradesh High Court in the long-running dispute over the Bhojshala Temple-kamal Maula Mosque complex in Dhar district, in the first such order of its kind after a moratorium...
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12 years at -21 deg C: Body frozen, but faith grows
JALANDHAR: For the followers of Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan (DJJS), time has stood still since January 28, 2014. For 12 years, their faith, and the body of their founder, Ashutosh Maharaj, has remained frozen at a constant -21°C. While doctors...
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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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Indigo hit with record ₹22cr fine for Dec chaos
NEW DELHI: India’s aviation regulator on Saturday imposed a record ₹22.2 crore penalty on Indigo and issued warnings to six senior executives, including the chief operating officer, after its inquiry found the airline’s “overriding focus on maximising...
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Exports brave US tariffs, global churn to log rise
NEW DELHI: Defying global headwinds and hefty US tariffs, India’s merchandise exports increased 1.9% to $38.51 billion in December from $37.8 billion a year earlier, and 2.44% to $330.29 billion in the first nine months of fiscal 2026, which was...
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Pak told to rein in drones: Army chief on intrusions
NEW DELHI: India asked Pakistan to rein in its drone activities after Islamabad launched defensive drones to assess if New Delhi was preparing to take any action against it, army chief General Upendra Dwivedi said on Tuesday, speaking against the...
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Stay united, defeat those trying to divide us: Modi
VERAVAL/AHMEDABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday warned against appeasement politics and whitewashing history, saying those who opposed the reconstruction of the Somnath Temple were still active today, even as he asserted that India was...
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India junks claim Modi not calling Trump held up deal
NEW DELHI: India on Friday rejected US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick’s claim that a bilateral trade deal could not be sealed last year because Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not call president Donald Trump, and said New Delhi remains interested...
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Backdrop for Budget: 7.4% growth estimated for FY26
NEW DELHI: 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 gross domestic product released on Wednesday, with manufacturing, services, and...
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SC denies Umar, Sharjeel bail in ’20 Delhi riots case
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to grant bail to former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid and activist Sharjeel Imam in the alleged larger conspiracy case linked to the 2020 Delhi riots, citing the gravity and statutory...
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How the raid unfolded
2025 August: A CIA team enters Venezuela to gather intel on Maduro’s movements and routines. December 25: Trump authorises the mission; precise timing depends on weather and real-time intelligence. 2026 January 2: Trump gives the final go-ahead for...
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US spirits away Maduro
CARACAS/WASHINGTON: US special forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from his bedroom early Saturday in an operation without modern precedent, plucking a sitting head of state from sovereign territory to face American criminal...
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Trump, Tehran exchange threats as Iran stir grows
DUBAI: US President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged duelling threats Friday as widening protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the countries after America bombed Iranian nuclear sites...
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Police arrest EX-SGPC auditor Kohli in missing saroops case
AMRITSAR: Punjab Police on Thursday arrested Satinder Singh Kohli, former internal auditor of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and close associate of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal, in the 328 missing saroops...
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In Dhaka for Zia’s last rites, EAM hands her son letter from Modi
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar represented India at the funeral of former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia in Dhaka on Wednesday and told her son and political heir Tarique Rahman that her vision will guide the development of...
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Khaleda Zia, 1st woman PM of Bangladesh, dies
DHAKA: Khaleda Zia, who became Bangladesh’s first female prime minister in 1991 and went on to develop a bitter rivalry with Sheikh Hasina as they spent decades trading power, died on Tuesday after a long illness. She was 80. Her Bangladesh...
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Bangladesh ramps up rhetoric, Indian agencies push back
NEW DELHI/SHILLONG: Bangladesh on Sunday sharpened its rhetoric against India, with Dhaka accusing New Delhi of spreading a “misleading narrative” on the condition of minorities in the country and the Bangladeshi police claiming that suspects in the...
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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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CBI files chargesheet against five Punjab cops in Col’s assault case
MOHALI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has submitted a chargesheet in a Mohali court against five Punjab Police officers in connection with the alleged assault on Colonel Pushpinder Singh Bath and his son in March this year. The development...
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No new Aravalli mining leases: Centre amid row
NEW DELHI: The Union environment ministry on Wednesday directed Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat to enforce a strict ban on new mining leases across the Aravalli range, a direction that experts said is part of complying with a Supreme Court order in...
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Envoys called in, Delhi, Dhaka trade protests
NEW DELHI: 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...
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Fog chaos in north: Haze to persist for 2 more days
NEW DELHI: Thick fog continued to reduce visibility across the northern plains and the national capital on Sunday, disrupting trains and flights for a seventh straight day, as weather agencies forecast that the hazy conditions will hobble travel for...
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Cold snap, dense fog paralyse north India
NEW 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...
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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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India inks Oman FTA, gains duty-free boost
NEW DELHI: India and Oman on Thursday signed a free trade agreement that allows duty-free access of almost all Indian goods in the West Asian country, a comprehensive services package spanning 127 sectors, and a liberalised mobility framework for...
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Oz gunman had Hyderabad roots, left India 27 years ago
NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: Sajid Akram, the 50-year-old gunman killed during a terror attack he unleashed on a Jewish gathering in Australia, was an Indian national, the Philippines’ Bureau of Immigration said on Tuesday, with the Telangana Police confirming...
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Govt to bring ‘G RAM G’ to replace UPA’S MGNREGS
NEW DELHI: The Union government is set to propose a new federal jobs scheme, the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) or VB-G RAM G, to replace the twodecade-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme...
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11 killed in mass shooting at Jewish event in Sydney
SYDNEY: Gunmen opened fire at a Jewish holiday celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing at least 11 people in what Australian officials described as a targeted antisemitic attack. One of the suspected gunmen was also killed. A second was...
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SIR deletions: Kolkata may bear max impact
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal is set to remove around 5.82 million names and four out of the five assembly constituencies with potentially the highest percentage of deletions are in the state...
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Cabinet clears key bills, approves census budget
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Friday approved the budget for the upcoming census and a new economic partnership with Oman, allowed the export of coal, and cleared key bills proposing a unified national education regulator, opening up the insurance...
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DGCA deploys officials in Indigo office, airports
NEW DELHI: India’s civil aviation regulator on Wednesday installed officers at Indigo’s corporate office and airports to oversee and report on the airline’s flailing operations even as the company’s board said external technical experts will be brought...
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Indigo scaled up ops but pilot count dipped: Data
NEW DELHI: Weeks after the country’s aviation regulator approved a 6% increase in flights for Indigo, as part of the airline’s winter schedule, the ministry of civil aviation said there would be a 10% reduction instead, a consequence of the inability...
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Cong compromised on Vande Mataram, says PM
NEW DELHI: Vande Mataram will remain an inspiration to create a self-reliant and prosperous India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, initiating the discussion on the 150th anniversary of India’s national song in the Lok Sabha. Modi blamed...
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25 killed as midnight blaze tears through club in Goa
PANAJI: Twenty-five people, including four from a Delhi family, were killed and six injured after a massive fire ripped through a nightclub in the coastal village of Arpora in north Goa around 11.45pm on Saturday, officials said on Sunday, with chief...
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Bollywood? Now, love actually: Hugh Grant
NEW DELHI: Perhaps we love villains the way we do because people are inherently evil, Hollywood star Hugh Grant said, with a twinkle and a grin, speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit on Saturday. It seemed a fitting combination of the two...
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PM-Putin bonhomie sets tone for crucial defence, trade talks
NEW DELHI: India rolled out the red carpet for President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally receiving the Russian leader at the airport on his arrival in Delhi for a visit that will be capped by an annual summit...
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150 Indigo flights cancelled as roster norms rock airline
NEW DELHI: Indigo cancelled at least 150 flights on Wednesday, triggering chaotic scenes at major airports across India as the carrier’s struggles to adapt to stringent new crew rostering rules meant even minor operational disruptions snowballed into a...
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LS agrees to break debate deadlock
NEW DELHI: The government and the Opposition on Tuesday agreed to discuss the ongoing SIR (Special Intensive Revision) of electoral rolls in the Lok Sabha next week, preceded by a debate to mark 150 years of “Vande Mataram”, signalling a breakthrough...
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SIR stir: Oppn sceptical of govt debate overture
NEW DELHI: A short winter session of Parliament, with a new Chairman of the Upper House, began on a fractious note on Monday, with opposition parties demanding an immediate debate on electoral reform, and disrupting business in the process, despite the...
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New cess bill on sin goods likely as Parl opens today
NEW DELHI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to introduce a bill in the Lok Sabha on Monday to levy “Health Security se National Security Cess” on pan masala and any other items notified by the central government to meet...
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India braces for cyclone Ditwah after havoc in SL
NEW DELHI: Authorities rushed 28 disaster response teams and set up 6,000 relief camps in Tamil Nadu as the cyclone Ditwah, which has killed at least 153 people and left nearly 200 missing in Sri Lanka, inched closer to the country’s southeastern coast...
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Putin to visit India on Dec 4-5, ties in focus
NEW DELHI: President Vladimir Putin will make a state visit to New Delhi during December 4-5 for the annual India-russia summit, the external affairs ministry announced on Friday, with the trip setting up an opportunity to reinvigorate bilateral ties...
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CJI: Delhi’s air ‘very bad’, will consider e-hearings
NEW DELHI: Delhi-ncr’s choking air overshadowed multiple proceedings in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, with Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and several senior lawyers repeatedly flagging the deteriorating air quality that has begun affecting basic...
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Modi hoists flag, Ayodhya project formally complete
AYODHYA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hoisted the saffron ‘dharma dhwaj’ flag atop the Ram temple in Ayodhya and marked the formal completion of the project, proclaiming that the “wounds and pain of centuries” were healing as a 500-year-old...
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Herculean hit machine: Dharmendra dies at 89
MUMBAI: Hindi film icon and former Member of Parliament, Dharmendra, died at his home in Mumbai on Monday. The actor, widely considered to be one of the most successful stars in commercial Hindi cinema, was ailing for the past few weeks. He would have...
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AI a global good, but must guard against misuse: PM
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called for barring the misuse of artificial intelligence for deepfakes, crime and terrorism, suggesting the need for a global framework built on certain fundamental principles including human oversight...
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Centre calls Delhi blast ‘terror incident’ as probe net widens
NEW DELHI/FARIDABAD/SRINAGAR: A rush-hour explosion near the Red Fort in Delhi that killed 10 people was a “heinous terror incident” by “anti-national” forces, the Union government confirmed on Wednesday, as security agencies worked to nab the...
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From F’bad to Pulwama: Red Fort blast probe focuses on terror web
Investigators probing the rush-hour car explosion outside Red Fort in Delhi turned their attention on Tuesday to an extremist module busted in Faridabad who they linked to terror outfit Jaish-e-mohammad (JEM) and a doctor hailing from Pulwama in Jammu...
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Car blast near Red Fort kills 8
NEW DELHI: Police and counterterrorism agencies are investigating an explosion in a slow-moving white Hyundai i20 car that ripped through a clutch of vehicles on an arterial road near the historic Red Fort in Delhi during the evening rush hour, killing...
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Pitched Bihar campaign finishes, Ph-2 tomorrow
PATNA: Campaigning for the Bihar elections wrapped up on Sunday with a raft of rallies across the eastern state, with leaders from the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA)...
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Winter session from Dec 1, Oppn hits out at ‘curtailed sitting’
NEW DELHI: The winter session of Parliament is set to take place from December 1 to 19, parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju said on Saturday, setting the stage for truncated but likely stormy proceedings. Last year, the winter session ran from...
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Travel chaos hits IGI as vital network collapses
NEW DELHI: The Capital’s airport was plunged into chaos on Friday when the backbone of air traffic communications was paralysed, disrupting close to 65% of all flights and leaving thousands of passengers stranded with delays stretching beyond 12 hours...
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Historic polling in Ph 1 of Bihar elections: EC
PATNA/NEW DELHI: The highstakes assembly elections in Bihar kicked off on Thursday with the first phase recording a provisional turnout till 6pm of 64.66%, a figure the Election Commission of India described as the “highest ever” in the eastern...
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SALAAM N.Y.
WASHINGTON: Zohran Mamdani, 34, was elected as the mayor of New York in a historic win on Tuesday night, riding on a campaign that cast him as a foil to a hostile Republican President Donald Trump , who in turn portrayed the Indian-origin Democratic...
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Barbs & bluster as rallies for phase 1 of Bihar polls wind up
PATNA: Campaigning for the crucial first phase of the assembly elections in Bihar ended on Tuesday as top leaders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Opposition Grand Alliance criss-crossed the poll-bound state, exchanging jibes and...
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Barbs fly thick and fast as Ph-1 campaign nears end
PATNA: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Opposition Grand Alliance clashed in poll-bound Bihar on Monday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing his opponents of ushering in crime and siding with infiltrators in a special pitch to young...
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INDOMITABLE INDIA
Rasesh Mandani NAVI MUMBAI: There are moments in time when a sport elevates itself from the boundaries of skills and tactics. When it receives such widespread support that it takes the form of a revolution. The 1983 ODI World Cup win when the men beat...
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Nine die in Andhra temple stampede
HYDERABAD: At least nine people, including a teenager, were killed and three others were critically injured in a stampede at a temple in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday amid a rush of devotees, officials aware of the matter said. The incident occurred...
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Modi honours Patel’s legacy, attacks Nehru
AHMEDABAD: India’s first home minister Vallabhbhai Patel wanted to integrate the entirety of Kashmir into India just as he had done with the princely states but was prevented from doing so by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister...
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US cuts China tariffs as part of trade truce
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had agreed with President Xi Jinping to trim tariffs on China in exchange for Beijing cracking down on the illicit fentanyl trade, resuming US soybean purchases and keeping rare earths...
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Doing trade deal with India, Trump confirms
NEW DELHI: President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he is “doing a trade deal with India” , raising hopes that an in-the-works agreement between the two countries would be finalised soon. His comments came on a day the US and South Korea came...
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Govt sets in motion 8th pay panel plans
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday approved the terms of reference for the 8th Pay Commission, setting in motion the process for increasing the salaries and pensions of nearly 12 million central government...
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Justice Kant recommended as next CJI, to be 1st from Haryana
NEW DELHI: Justice Surya Kant, who was recommended on Monday as the next Chief Justice of India by CJI Bhushan R Gavai, is poised to make history as the first jurist from Haryana to assume the nation’s highest judicial office. His appointment, ahead of...
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Modi: Asean cornerstone of India’s Act East policy
NEW DELHI: The India-association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) partnership lays the foundation for global stability and development in an era of uncertainties, with the two sides cooperating in areas ranging from digital inclusion and food...
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Farm fires rage in Pak, no surge in Punjab – for now
NEW DELHI /PATIALA : Pakistan recorded 3,730 farm fires in the 10 days ending October 25, the highest count for that period in available records dating to 2012, raising alarm among meteorologists who warn the smoke plume will likely sweep across North...
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PM raises NDA poll pitch, calls Oppn ‘tie-up of thugs’
PATNA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) poll campaign in Bihar with back-to-back rallies in Samastipur and Begusarai districts, likening the Opposition to a coalition of thugs led by “people out...
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Sanctions force refiner retreat on Russian oil
NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON: The US late on Wednesday announced sanctions on Russian oil giants Rosneft and Lukoil, the Trump administration’s strongest bid yet to pressure President Vladimir Putin into negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine, a move that...
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Modi, Trump talk trade links during Diwali call
NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed trade-related issues during a phone call on Tuesday as the two countries work to repair ties that have frayed over unprecedented US tariffs on Indian...
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Crackers unleashed, haze cloaks Capital
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s first Diwali with legal firecrackers in years delivered the worst air pollution spike since 2021, with fine particulate matter concentrations hitting levels that would register an air quality index of 812—if the official scale...
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Ladakh-centre dialogue set to resume on Oct 22
SRINAGAR/ NEW DELHI: Crucial talks between the Centre and Ladakh representatives, which were called off nearly three weeks ago, are set to resume on October 22, people aware of the matter said on Saturday, raising hopes of an end to months-long...
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Govt: GST cuts have set off ‘virtuous cycle’ of growth
NEW DELHI: The next-generation GST reforms have triggered a sharp reduction in consumer prices and accelerated a “virtuous cycle” of growth through consumption-led demand, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday, and added that the...
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