Hindustan Times ST (Mumbai)
Heavy snowfall brings hills to a standstill
SHIMLA/DEHRADUN/SRINAGAR: Sudden and heavy snowfall across the Himalayan region over the last 48 hours has triggered widespread disruptions, with hundreds of vehicles and people stranded, roads blocked and power disruptions in several high-altitude...
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‘Armada on way’: US renews threat to Iran
President Donald Trump said a US “armada” was heading toward the Gulf and that Washington was watching Iran closely, even after downplaying the prospect of imminent military action and saying Tehran appeared interested in talks. Trump has repeatedly...
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Inflexible Bangladesh all set to miss T20 WC
Bangladesh’s participation in the upcoming T20 World Cup appears unlikely after the interim government reiterated on Thursday its decision not to travel to India due to security concerns. Asif Nazrul, the Bangladesh government’s sports adviser, met...
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Trump rules out force but sticks to Greenland quest
President Donald Trump upped the pressure on Europe to cede control of Greenland or face the consequences, saying that NATO owes it to the US to grant it full rights to the Arctic island. In a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday...
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Indigo hit with record ₹22cr fine for Dec chaos
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
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 backdrop of...
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Mahayuti manifesto woos Marathi manoos, women
MUMBAI: The Mahayuti alliance on Sunday launched its manifesto for the upcoming BMC elections, promising a clutch of initiatives for the city, including 50% fare concession for women on BEST buses, interest-free loan of ₹50 lakh for women...
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MUMBAI IS MY KARMABHOOMI, SAYS FADNAVIS
MUMBAI: Calling Mumbai his “karmabhoomi”, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said he had transformed the city with his vision and hard work. Fadnavis was reacting to remarks made by MNS chief Raj Thackeray, who claimed that the chief minister...
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Fadnavis, Congress slam local units for Ambernath alliance
Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday blamed “a breach of discipline” for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’S alliances with archrival Congress and All India Majlis-eittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) in civic bodies in Ambernath and Akola. He...
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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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Maduro loyalists vow to defy US
A top Venezuelan official declared on Sunday that the country’s government would stay unified behind President Nicolas Maduro, whose capture by the US has sparked deep uncertainty about what is next for the oilrich South American nation. Maduro is in a...
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US spirits away Maduro
Venezuela Prez, wife captured from bedroom after US helicopters reach deep into Caracas Trump says US will run Venezuela, tap its vast oil reserves and sell ‘large amounts’ to others Major powers denounce operation as breach of international law,...
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Uproar as 68 Mahayuti candidates win unopposed
MUMBAI: As many as 68 candidates from the three major ruling parties in the Mahayuti alliance in the state are set to be elected unopposed in crucial elections to 29 municipal corporations in Maharashtra. Opposition parties are crying foul, alleging...
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Cigarettes set to get costlier from Feb 1 as excise duty hiked
NEW DELHI: The government has imposed a new excise duty on cigarettes ranging from ₹2,050 to ₹8,500 per 1,000 sticks, a move that sent tobacco company shares plummeting on Thursday and is expected to significantly raise prices for the country’s...
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Bouquet of Hope
Each artist brings a distinct way of seeing the world — shaped by time, place, memory, and material. These singular expressions, taken together, form a collective portrait of Indian art in all its diversity. This spread profiles the artists behind this...
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SC stays Aravalli order, stresses ecological risks
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed its November 20 judgment narrowing the definition of Aravalli hills to landforms rising at least 100 metres above the surrounding terrain, holding that there was a “dire need to further probe and clarify” the issue to...
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Iconic screen siren who made a radical shift dies at 91
PARIS: French film sensation Brigitte Bardot, a symbol of sexual liberation in the 1950s and 1960s who reinvented herself as an animal rights defender and embraced far-right views, died on Sunday aged 91, her foundation said. She died in her...
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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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Gen Z, Gen Alpha will put India on path of development: Modi
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he believed in the capabilities and confidence of Gen-z, encouraging them to strive for national development through hard work and discipline to fulfil the goal of Viksit Bharat (developed...
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Rahman ends exile, seeks ‘safe, peaceful’ Bangladesh
DHAKA: Aspiring prime minister and political heavyweight Tarique Rahman returned to Bangladesh on Thursday, ending 17 years in self-imposed exile with a promise to deliver safety and justice if his party wins the general elections scheduled for...
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Thackeray cousins reunite after 20 years
MUMBAI: It was a family reunion of sorts on Wednesday as the Thackeray cousins announced their political alliance for the January 15 civic polls in Maharashtra. Before the announcement, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman...
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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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Mahayuti wins big in 1st phase of local body polls
MUMBAI: The BJP on Sunday emerged as big winners in the first phase of elections for local self-government bodies in Maharashtra, winning 117 out of the 288 posts of president of municipal council and nagar panchayats across the state. The Eknath...
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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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Kokate resigns, Nashik police set to arrest him
MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) minister Manikrao Kokate has resigned from the Maharashtra cabinet, party president and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar confirmed on Thursday, a day after a trial court in Nashik issued an arrest warrant...
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Oz gunman had H’bad roots, left India 27 yrs 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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NIA names LET, TRF in Pahalgam charge sheet
NEW DELHI/JAMMU: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday filed a charge sheet against terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-taiba (LET), its proxy The Resistance Front (TRF), and others in connection with the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that...
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BJP names Bihar min Nabin as working prez
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s highest decision-making body, the Parliamentary Board, on Sunday appointed Bihar cabinet minister Nitin Nabin as the party’s new working president, with people aware of the matter saying that he is likely to be...
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20 US states sue Trump govt over H-1B visa hike
WASHINGTON: Twenty US states have sued the Trump administration for what they said was the “unlawful” introduction of a $100,000 visa fee for H-1B visa applications. The lawsuits -- filed by the Democratic Party’s Attorneysgeneral in these states --...
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India eases visa rules as Chinese applicants rise
NEW DELHI: India has tweaked visa rules to address the issue of a growing number of applications from Chinese nationals coming to the country for short periods for business activities without changing vetting procedures, people familiar with the matter...
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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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Microsoft pledges to invest $17.5bn in India
NEW DELHI: Microsoft Corp. chief executive Satya Nadella on Tuesday marked the year’s second visit to India with a commitment to invest $17.5 billion in data centres, hours after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. That brings...
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Indigo did not flag troubles during Dec 1 meet: Minister
NEW DELHI: Indigo did not flag any trouble with adapting to the revised crew fatigue rules during a meeting with the civil aviation regulator on December 1, a day before operational problems at India’s biggest airline became apparent, civil aviation...
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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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DGCA gives in to Indigo’s demands, eases duty rules
NEW DELHI: The civil aviation regulator DGCA on Friday capitulated to Indigo’s demands and granted a one-time exemption from crew fatigue rules introduced last month, even as India’s biggest airline cancelled over 1,000 flights—more than half its daily...
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May eradicate Maoism before deadline: CM Sai
NEW DELHI: India will be central in how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is deployed in the real world, with the country set to provide a significant share of global usage cues over the next year, said Srinivas Narayanan, chief technology officer for B2B...
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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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Parliament 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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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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Bastion falls as SA deal India worst home loss
GUWAHATI: India’s reputation as Test cricket’s final frontier, one that few countries have scaled, was dealt a telling, perhaps final, blow after South Africa inflicted a 408-run defeat on the country — India’s highest ever in terms of runs — in the...
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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 500year-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 Pulwama to Faridabad: Delhi blast probe focuses on terror web
NEW DELHI/FARIDABAD: 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...
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Delhi on alert: 8 killed as car explodes in front of Red Fort
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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Remove strays from public places, says SC
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday directed all states and Union territories (UTS) to ensure the removal of stray dogs from educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, bus depots and railway stations, and ruled that they cannot be...
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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 Rd 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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19 killed in Telangana bus-dumper collision
HYDERABAD: At least 19 people, including a three-month-old girl child, were killed and 24 others injured when a tipper lorry carrying gravel collided head-on with a state-run bus in Ranga Reddy district of Telangana on Monday morning, police...
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Mistry files caveat against his ouster from Tata Trusts
MUMBAI/BENGALURU: Mehli Mistry has challenged the decision of the Tata Trusts to remove him as a trustee by filing a caveat before the Maharashtra Charity Commissioner, urging the regulatory body to hear his case before approving the decision by the...
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Indo-pacific must be free, open: Rajnath at ASEAN
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday put the spotlight on the Indo-pacific region and said it must remain free from coercion, reiterating India’s position that a rulesbased international order is a must for peace, prosperity and...
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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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Man holds 17 kids hostage; shot dead
MUMBAI: Seventeen children between the ages of 12 and 15 were rescued from an audition theatre at Powai in Mumbai on Thursday following a dramatic three-and-a-half hour-long siege in which a lone man, identified as 50-year-old Rohit Arya, carrying an...
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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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Mehli Mistry ousted from board of Tata Trusts as rift deepens
BENGALURU/MUMBAI: Tata Trusts chairman Noel Tata and vice-chairmen Venu Srinivasan and Vijay Singh have not approved the reappointment of Ratan Tata’s long-time confidant, Mehli Mistry, as a permanent trustee — setting the stage for a 2016-like battle...
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SIR 2.0 announced in 12 states and UTS; Final rolls on Feb 7
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday announced the launch of the second phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across 12 states and Union Territories, covering roughly half of India’s nearly one...
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Asean cornerstone of India’s Act East policy, says Modi
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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Shah: Infiltrators to be deleted from voter lists
PATNA: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that every infiltrator would be detected, deleted from voter lists and deported to their countries, as he slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and the INDIA bloc for “protecting” illegal immigrants...
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20 killed as bus bursts into flames after bike collision
HYDERABAD: Twenty people were killed and several injured when a sleeper bus heading from Hyderabad to Bengaluru went up in flames after hitting a motorcycle on the outskirts of Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh early on Friday, said police. Most of...
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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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4 dead, 10 injured as blaze rips through Vashi tower
NAVI MUMBAI: A fire blazed through a 12-storeyed building, Raheja Residency, in Vashi on Tuesday, killing 4 people and injuring 10 others. The deceased include a couple and their sixyear-old daughter and an 84-year-old bedridden woman. The fire was...
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INS Vikrant sent waves of fear across Pak: PM
PANAJI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated Diwali with naval personnel onboard aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, which he described as a towering symbol of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’. Modi boarded the aircraft carrier off the coast of Goa on Sunday...
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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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Fresh strikes by Pak cloud Afghan peace talks in Doha
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani and Afghan officials were due to meet in Qatar to seek a path back to calm, a day after Islamabad launched air strikes that killed at least 10 Afghanis following a brief truce. Kabul accused Islamabad of violating the 48-hour...
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