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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...

Maharashtra inks MoUs worth ₹14.5 lakh cr in Davos

MUMBAI: Maharashtra government signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs) worth ₹14.5 lakh crore across sectors like artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, digital infrastructure, fintech, logistics and infrastructure, shipbuilding, electric...

SCstepsinforBengalvoters feelingSIR‘stressandstrain’

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...

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...

NASA BRINGS FOUR ASTRONAUTS BACK TO EARTH IN 1ST MEDICAL EVACUATION FROM ISS

Launched in August, Cardman, Fincke, Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Russia’s Oleg Platonov should have remained on the space station until mid-February. But on Jan. 7, Nasa abruptly cancelled the next day’s spacewalk by Cardman and Fincke and later announced...

PM, Oppn leader extend festive season’s greetings Joy in abundance as nation celebrates Sankranti, harvest festivals with fervour

NEW DELHI: Dressed in their festive best, people prepared, shared and relished sweets and food made of seasonal produce, kites were flown, offered prayers, lit bonfires, and adorned entrances to homes with colourful, intricate patterns as the varied...

India’s Gen Z is full of creativity, says Modi at Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India’s youth, fuelled by a combination of creativity, innovative ideas, energy and purpose, is at the forefront of nation-building. Addressing the concluding session of Viksit Bharat Young...

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...

OCEANS STRUGGLING TO ABSORB CO2 AMID MICROPLASTIC POLLUTION: STUDY

An ocean transfers carbon from the atmosphere into the deep sea layers through a process called biological carbon pumping. Now, microplastics, which are found even in the deep seas, are interfering with this process by cutting phytoplankton...

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...

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...

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...

PM, President and Congress chief extend New Year greetings, wishes for peace & joy

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday extended New Year greetings to everyone and prayed for peace and happiness in the society. “Wishing everyone a wonderful 2026! May the year ahead bring good health and prosperity, with success in...

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...

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...

WITH EXTINCTION OF EVERY SPECIES, A TROVE OF KNOWLEDGE IS LOST

Every species has a unique genetic code and ecological role. When it vanishes, the world loses an untapped reservoir of scientific knowledge – genetic blueprints, biochemical pathways, ecological relationships and even potential medical treatments....

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...

‘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,...

Vanity in a vial: The perils of a raging, and untested, peptide health trend

The new pharmacy is a refrigerator. Not the kind that hums in a clinic, stocked by pharmacists. This one sits in a luxury apartment in Manhattan or a founder’s kitchen in Silicon Valley. Inside are syringes and small glass vials with names like...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Leopard attacks 7 in Nagpur, captured after 4-hr operation

NAGPUR: Residents of Shiv Nagar in East Nagpur’s Pardi area woke up to a shock on early Wednesday morning when a leopard strayed into the locality, attacking several people while attempting to find its way out. At least seven were injured and had to be...

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...

Chaos persists, IndiGo falters in restoring ops

NEW DELHI: Chaos and confusion continued across airports on Sunday, with thousands of passengers still stranded, as IndiGo struggled to fully contain an unprecedented operational crisis, which entered its sixth consecutive day. Scenes of frustration...

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...

May eradicate Maoism before deadline: CM Sai

NEW DELHI: Maoism may be eradicated in India before the deadline of March 31, 2026 and former rebels who have surrendered will not be returning to the jungles because of robust rehabilitation programmes, Chhattisgarh chief minister Vishnu Deo Sai said...

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...

Convert BSNL site in Deonar into forest, residents tell CM

MUMBAI: Residents of Chembur, one of Mumbai’s most-polluted neighbourhoods, are holding their breath as they wait to see whether civic and government authorities will back their proposal for a new green lung. Chembur and neighbouring Deonar have...

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...

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...

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...

SC seeks new rules on user-generated content

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday emphasised the need for an “effective” mechanism to regulate user-generated content and a stronger, independent oversight body, directing the Centre to draft guidelines within four weeks after public...

Modi hoists flag, Ayodhya project formally complete ‘Souls of those who died for temple now at peace’

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...

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...

Centre calls Delhi blast ‘terror incident’ as probe net widens

Jignasa Sinha, Karn Pratap Singh, Leena Dhankhar and Mir Ehsan 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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Oppn unites over ‘vote chori’, plans march in city on Nov 1

MUMBAI: After taking up the issue of alleged voter list fudging directly with the Election Commission (EC), political parties, mainly the opposition, have decided to take the matter to the people. Questioning the integrity of the poll body, they will...

The path back to India

Mehul Choksi was arrested by Antwerp police on April 11, based on an extradition request sent by the CBI Indian investigators have submitted evidence to the prosecutors in Belgium against Choksi in six bank frauds allegedly committed by him between...

21st century belongs to 1.4bn Indians: PM

HYDERABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the 21st century belongs to 1.4 billion Indians and that the country will become “Viksit Bharat” (Developed India) by 2047 even as he attacked the Congress and hailed the recent goods and...

2030 CWG set for Ahd after crucial nod from games’ top exec panel

MUMBAI: Ahmedabad will likely host the Commonwealth Games (CWG) in 2030, as the competition’s executive board on Wednesday recommended the Gujarat city for the centenary edition of the event. Now, only a final greenlight during the organisation’s...

Senior Maoist leader Bhupathi surrenders

NAGPUR/RAIPUR: Senior Maoist leader and CPI (Maoist) politburo member, Mallojula Venugopal alias Bhupathi, 69, the first senior Naxal leader to call for abandoning the armed struggle, surrendered before the Gadchiroli police on Monday night along with...

Charges framed against Lalu, Tejashwi weeks before polls

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Monday framed charges of corruption, conspiracy and cheating against Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, his wife and former chief minister Rabri Devi, and their son and leader of Opposition in the state, Tejashwi...

1,000 gather to demand builder’s arrest, justice for 22-yr-old banker

MUMBAI: Over a thousand people gathered in Jogeshwari East on Sunday to demand justice for 22-year-old banker Sanskruti Amin, who was killed last week when a concrete block from an under-construction building fell on her head. Holding placards that...

SP Group pushes for Tata Sons’ public listing

MUMBAI: The Shapoorji Pallonji Group on Friday pressed for a public listing of Tata Sons that the Tata Group holding company is trying to resist, invoking the ideals of transparency espoused by its founder Jamsetji Tata. An initial public offering...

PM, Starmer cement ties with defence, trade push

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The India-UK partnership is an important pillar of global stability and economic progress in an era of international instability, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday after talks with his British counterpart Keir Starmer...

SC hints Koli might be let off in last case

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated that Nithari killings convict Surendra Koli may be acquitted in the sole case in which his conviction still stands, observing that it would be a “travesty of justice” to sustain the 2011 verdict when he...

6 killed in fire at govt hospital ICU in Jaipur

JAIPUR: At least six patients died due to suffocation after a massive fire broke out at the intensive care unit of the Rajasthan government-run Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur late on Sunday night, officials said on Monday. Two more patients were...

India targets Russia deal for 5 more S-400 systems

NEW DELHI: Top defence ministry officials will meet their Russian counterparts this week to consider either joint manufacture or outright purchase of five more S-400 air defence systems from Moscow with an objective of enhancing India’s long range...