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The campaign was approved at a meet of new office-bearers Saturday NEW DELHI: BJP cited Mahatma Gandhi’s “we have fallen on evil days” lament over the opposition built up against Vande Mataram Saturday to set the stage for an intense political battle with Congress and the wider ‘secular’ class for their objections to the national…
Boris Johnson calls US war on Iran a ‘mistake’, urges India, US and UK to help reopen Hormuz and pressure Russia over Ukraine NEW DELHI: Former British PM Boris Johnson Saturday urged India, US and Britain to coordinate with one another on ending the Iran conflict and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, while calling Washington’s…
Air Marshal Kapoor (Retd) did not totally rule out the role of Tejas Mk2 in future NEW DELHI: Less than two months after retirement as the IAF’s vice chief, Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor (Retd) has slammed the delay in the delivery of Tejas (LCA) fighter jet by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited to the air force, saying,…
Police arrested a 28-year-old man for allegedly being in contact with a Pakistani criminal gang through Instagram in Doddaballapur, Karnataka. NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old AC mechanic was arrested in Karnataka on charges of a terrorist act after police allegedly found he was in contact with Pakistan-based gangsters through social media, officials said on Friday.The accused,…
Among the six includes Lashkar-e-Taiba founders Hafiz Saeed. NEW DELHI: The Mumbai Police have asked the Union home ministry to use Interpol to serve court proclamation orders on six Pakistani nationals wanted in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.The move is part of the process to bring the six accused to trial in absentia,…
Large gathering at Jantar Mantar over caste based reservation NEW DELHI: Union MoS for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale on Saturday said reservation is a “constitutional right” and termed demands for its abolition “unconstitutional”, arguing that several needy communities continue to benefit from the system.Addressing a press conference, Athawale said some people had demanded…
The meeting came days after the BJP announced its 65-member national team under party president Nitin Nabin. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met the BJP’s newly appointed team of national office-bearers at the party headquarters in the national capital and posed for a group photograph with them.Sharing pictures from the meeting on…
India has a rich but complex history of men performing femininity—one that modern drag queens are reclaiming with agency, drawing from both Indian tradition and global queer culture The most heavily quoted feminist scholar, Simone de Beauvoir, launched entire fields of feminist theory by writing – one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.To…
The world’s first IVF female calf of the Lakhimi breed – native to Assam – has been born at the Assam Veterinary and Fishery University. GUWHATI: Assam has achieved a major milestone in livestock biotechnology with the birth of the world’s first IVF-born female calf of the indigenous Lakhimi breed, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma…
International travelers will soon need e-boarding passes on smartphones for immigration clearance. Physical boarding passes will no longer be stamped by immigration authorities from September one. This change aims to streamline the process and reduce passenger inconvenience. A pilot project is also underway to eliminate immigration stamping for Indian passport holders. The Bureau of Immigration…
