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NEW DELHI: Delhi’s air quality worsened again on Saturday after a brief improvement earlier in the week, with several parts of the city recording pollution levels in the ‘very poor’ and ‘severe’ categories. Residents across the capital woke up to thick smog, which reduced visibility in many areas. According to data from the Central Pollution…
NEW DELHI: Top 10 extreme weather events such as wildfires, heatwaves, floods and cyclonic storms cost the world more than $122 billion in 2025, said a report – Counting the Cost 2025 – released by a global not-for-profit organisation, Christian Aid. Exceptionally heavy monsoon rainfall experienced by large parts of India and Pakistan from June…
‘Dhurandhar’, directed by Aditya Dhar and starring Ranveer Singh in the lead, has created history at the box office by crossing the Rs 1000 crore mark worldwide, just as it entered its fourth week at the box office. The film that began its box office run on December 5, has emerged as one of the…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi & PM Narendra Modi (PTI) As the year drew to a close, Indian cricket found itself sharing space with an unfamiliar kind of headline. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, still three months short of his 15th birthday, was named a recipient of the Prime Minister’s National Award for Children, the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar. It…
NAGPUR: Amidst the brutal persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh in the run-up to the February polls, a party registered in April hopes to fight its maiden elections, seeking Hindu and other minority votes. Bangladesh Minority Janta Party (BMJP) is preparing to contest 91 of 300 seats of Jatiya Parishad (national parliament), hoping to win 40…
HYDERABAD: Over 24,600 Indians were deported from 81 countries in 2025, as per the latest ministry of external affairs data tabled in Rajya Sabha. It wasn’t the US but Saudi Arabia that recorded the highest deportations – over 11,000 in 12 months.While in comparison, only 3,800 Indians – mostly private employees – were deported from…
File photo: Union home minister Amit Shah (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday called for a countrywide upgrade of the anti-terror infrastructure with the creation of an “impenetrable anti-terrorism grid” to protect coming generations from evolving threats and a common anti-terror squad (ATS) structure across states. Inaugurating the ‘Anti-Terrorism…
CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered that a man convicted of raping and murdering a five-year-old girl remain behind bars for 30 years without remission, holding that his incarceration must continue until he nears loss of “virility” to prevent further sexual crimes.“To save other children and women, the convict must remain within the…
Screen grab from video posted on X by @nurityohanan An Israeli settler, with a rifle slung over his back, drove his ATV into a Palestinian man kneeling for prayer on the side of a road in the West Bank, reported Times of Israel, citing Palestinian media.The incident occurred near the village of Deir Jarir, north…
New Delhi: Agitators including women activists, stage a protest against the suspension of the jail term of Kuldeep Sengar, a former BJP MLA who was convicted in the Unnao rape case, outside the Delhi High Court, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo/Salman Ali) NEW DELHI: The CBI on Friday filed a Special Leave Petition in the…
