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Heavy snowfall brings hills to a standstill
Vehicles stranded on a snow-covered street in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, on Saturday.
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‘Armada on way’: US renews threat to Iran
WASHINGTON: 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...
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TRUMP BACKS DOWN ON GREENLAND TARIFFS, SAYS DEAL FRAMEWORK REACHED
DAVOS, SWITZERLAND: US President Donald Trump abruptly stepped back on Wednesday from threats to impose tariffs as leverage to seize Greenland, ruled out the use of force and suggested a deal was in sight to end a dispute over the Danish territory that...
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NATO SHOULD ALLOW U.S. TO TAKE GREENLAND BUT WON’T USE FORCE, TRUMP SAYS AT WEF
SWITZERL AND: President Donald Trump insisted he wants to “get Greenland, including right, title and ownership,” but he said he wouldn’t employ force to achieve that — using his speech on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum to repeatedly deride...
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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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Shinde moves flock as mayoral race looms
MUMBAI: A day after BJP’s dominance over the civic polls across 29 cities in Maharashtra was declared, the race to cobble together a majority in the civic bodies has begun in earnest. While the BJP won a majority on its own in 14 municipal...
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Machado ‘gifts’ Trump her Nobel peace prize
WASHINGTON: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize medal to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday during a White House meeting, in a bid to influence his efforts to shape her country’s political future. A White...
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CAMPAIGNING ENDS, CITY VOTES TOMORROW
MUMBAI: Campaigning for the 29 municipal corporations across Maharashtra formally closed at 5.30 pm on Tuesday. On polling day tomorrow, Mumbai will see a three-cornered fight between the BJPShiv Sena, the Shiv Sena (UBT)-MNS and the CongressVBA...
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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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How United and Chelsea bungled in player transfers
Coach sackings are routine in the cutthroat world of club football. Still, the dismissal of Enzo Maresca by Chelsea and Ruben Amorim by Manchester United in the first week of 2026 was stunning in its speed. It was a management masterstroke of making a...
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Economy expected to grow at 7.4% in the ongoing financial year, indicates NSO data
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 GDP released on Wednesday. The projected growth rate – there are still three months left for 2025-26...
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SEC: No polls in wards with ‘unopposed’ wins
MUMBAI: Even as the controversy surrounding Mahayuti candidates being elected unopposed rages on, the State Election Commission (SEC) has made it clear that there will be no polling in wards where there is just one candidate in the fray for the January...
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U.S. TO RUN S AMERICAN NATION FOR NOW, SAYS TRUMP AFTER MADURO’S CAPTURE
NEW YORK: Venezuela’s toppled leader Nicolas Maduro was in a New York detention centre on Sunday awaiting drug charges after President Donald Trump ordered an audacious raid to capture him, saying the US would take control of the oilproducing...
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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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WORLD WELCOMES 2026 WITH EXUBERANCE AND JUBILATION
As Wednesday turned to Thursday, people around the world said goodbye to a challenging 2025 and expressed hopes for the New Year to bring in good times. Revellers around the world rang in 2026 with exuberant celebrations filled with thunderous...
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Cabinet freezes Vi AGR dues, grants more time
NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday froze Vodafone Idea Ltd’s (Vi) adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues at ₹87,695 crore as of December 31, 2025, and allowed the telecom operator to repay the amount over 10 years from fiscal 2032 to fiscal 2041. The...
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1 On average, total rain is the 15 highest this year since 1979 and extreme rain the 5th highest
As India witnessed rain most prominently in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh during the monsoon, large parts of the world experienced extreme rainfall in 2025. Floods in California in the United States on Christmas eve or those in South and Southeast Asia...
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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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‘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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HT WISHES ITS READERS A MERRY CHRISTMAS
How does your Christmas look? Is there a star-lit tree, the crinkle of wrapping paper and a heap of gifts? Or the quiet flickering of lights and gentle hum of carols in the air? However one celebrates, chances are there are ancient rites, pagan...
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Envoys called in, Delhi, Dhaka trade protests
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 New Delhi,...
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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
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 for...
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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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Nuke bill clears LS as Oppn wants House panel scrutiny
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed The Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India Bill, 2025 or the SHANTI bill via a voice vote after the Opposition, which demanded that the bill be referred to a...
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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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Meeting of the GOATs
KOLKATA: A North 24 Parganas district court on Sunday sent Satadru Dutta, the organiser of Lionel Messi’s “GOAT Tour” in West Bengal, to 14-day police custody, a day after fan outrage during the event at Salt Lake Stadium led to chaos and vandalism,...
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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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Modi, Trump discuss progress in ties, trade
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on Thursday discussed ways to sustain momentum in enhancing bilateral trade, people familiar with the matter said amid emerging signals that the two sides may be inching towards a...
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