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Celebrating the first anniversary of people’s rule As the Mahayuti government has completed a year in power, a detailed review of its journey during this period is not an easy task. The progress made by the Mahayuti government in one year is astonishing. Experiencing the speed of a jet plane has surely stunned those accustomed…
Vice president JD Vance doubled down on the one language supremacy in the US, saying in America, English is the only common language. In a post on X, JD said: “You need a common language, and in America, that language is English.”The row started when Vance, in October, said that it is ‘totally acceptable’ for…
US stocks hovered close to record levels on Monday as investors stayed cautious ahead of a key Federal Reserve decision, even as select stocks moved sharply on takeover news and index reshuffles.The S&P 500 was largely flat in early trade and sat about 0.3% below its all-time high set in October, while the Nasdaq Composite…
NEW DELHI: IndiGo on Monday replied to the DGCA’s show-cause notice, saying it is “realistically not possible to pinpoint the exact cause(s)” immediately due to the complexity and scale of its operations. The response addressed the recent large-scale operational disruptions and flight cancellations across the airline’s network. The reply by the airline’s chief executive officer…
Jessie Cave is an actress best known for playing Lavender Brown in the later Harry Potter films/ Image: X Jessie Cave’s pregnancy story is not the sort of romance arc you’d pitch for a Harry Potter spin-off. The actor who played Lavender Brown, the lovestruck Gryffindor who clung to Ron Weasley – ended up with…
Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore (File Photo) Bangladesh’s foreign ministry on Friday released a statement on the recent mob attack that vandalised the ancestral home of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore in the Sirajganj district of Bangladesh.The ministry detailed the actions taken by the administration. “Following the incident, a criminal case had already been filed with the…
NEW DELHI: A “profusely apologetic” IndiGo has blamed a combination of five factors including the new flight duty time limitation (FDTL) rules and winter schedule-related changes for its massive flight disruptions, in its reply to the DGCA’s show cause notice submitted on Monday evening. The airline has said given the scale of its operations, it…
DHARMAPURI: PMK leader Dr Anbumani Ramadoss on Monday said the DMK govt’s “corruption, collection and commission” are responsible for companies going to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana instead of investing in Tamil Nadu. Speaking to reporters after attending a PMK party functionary’s wedding in Dharmapuri, Anbumani said, “Chief minister M K Stalin is saying that all…
India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has been recognised as the world’s largest retail real-time payment system by transaction volume, accounting for nearly half of all such transactions globally, the government told Parliament on Monday.Citing an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report titled ‘Growing Retail Digital Payments (The Value of Interoperability)’ dated June 2025, the government said…
WASHINGTON: The Food and Drug Administration is planning to broaden eligibility for coronavirus vaccine booster shots, allowing 12- to 15-year-olds to receive third doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine, according to people familiar with the agency’s deliberations.Regulators are also expected to authorize an extra shot of Pfizer’s vaccine for both adolescents and adults five months after receiving…
