Amid the withdrawal of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan ahead of the September 11 deadline set by US President Joe Biden, and India’s policy on the rapidly changing ground situation in favour of the Taliban mired in doubt and uncertainty, the Taliban said Saturday they believe in “peaceful coexistence” with th | Read more|
Former legislator Navjot Kaur Sidhu on Saturday criticised the Punjab government's decision of giving government jobs to sons of two ruling party legislators, saying only merit should be the criteria. | Read more|
In a letter issued to PNB Housing Finance (PNBHF) late Friday evening, the capital markets regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), has effectively put on pause its Rs 4,000-crore share allotment to a clutch of companies led by The Carlyle Group. | Read more|
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has made it clear that the country would "absolutely not" permit any of its bases or use of its territory to the United States for any kind of action inside Afghanistan. | Read more|
The US Air Force has warned that a much-anticipated test of its new air-launched hypersonic missile could kill four snails and 90 clams. No such precise estimates were offered for the weapon's human lethality. | Read more|
Four months after India and Pakistan decided to adhere to the ceasefire pact along the Line of Control (LoC), National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is likely to be in the same room as his Pakistan counterpart Moeed Yusuf in Dushanbe next week. | Read more|
Israel has said the international community should have grave concerns about the election of Iran's new president-elect, Ebrahim Raisi. | Read more|
Families of Covid victims cannot be paid a compensation of Rs.4 lakh as it applies to natural disasters only, the government told the Supreme Court today adding that states cannot afford to pay every victim. In a 183-page affidavit, the centre also added that denying compensation for diseases other than Covid would be | Read more|
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration has sent proctorial notices to several students, including students’ union office bearers, for allegedly violating Covid protocols. | Read more|
Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill shared a 62-run partnership before both departed in quick succession just before Lunch to bring New Zealand back in the game. | Read more|
One of India's greatest athletes, Milkha Singh, has died from Covid-related complications, aged 91. | Read more|
The finance ministry on Saturday asserted that Indian customer deposits in Swiss banks have fallen since 2019, but said it is seeking details from Swiss authorities on the relevant facts along with their view on possible reasons for changes in the funds parked by individuals and entities in 2020. | Read more|
Former bureaucrat AK Sharma, known to be among Prime Minister Narendra Modi's close aides, has been made the BJP's vice president in Uttar Pradesh, where assembly elections will be held next year. | Read more|
In what could be a renewed — and more substantive — push to the political process in Jammu and Kashmir after the District Development Council (DDC) elections, the Central government has reached out to mainstream parties in the Valley for a meeting next week to discuss the delimitation exercise or the process of red | Read more|
Doses of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine pledged by Israel were already too close to their expiration date when deliveries started on Friday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) said, cancelling the deal to exchange 1 million shots. | Read more|
Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi is set to be Iran's next president after winning most of the votes counted so far. | Read more|
The Punjab Ekta Party, led by former AAP leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira, announced its merger with the Congress on Thursday, with its leaders calling on Rahul Gandhi in Delhi. | Read more|
ByteDance, the Chinese company behind the smash-hit video app TikTok, saw its earnings double last year. | Read more|
American motorbike stunt rider Alex Harvill has died after sustaining injuries during preparations for an ill-fated world record attempt at the Moses Lake Airshow in Washington State, local authorities have announced. | Read more|
A woman Naxal was killed in a gun-battle with security forces inside a forest in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh on Friday, a senior police officer said. | Read more|
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would not immediately interfere with a Delhi High Court order granting bail to student-activists Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Iqbal Tanha, who are accused of conspiracy over the Delhi riots and have been charged under anti-terror law UAPA. | Read more|
Iranians are voting to elect a new president, with all but one of the four candidates regarded as hardliners. | Read more|
North Korea needs to be ready for both dialogue and confrontation with Washington, the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, said in his first direct statement on policy towards the “newly emerged” US administration. | Read more|
The owner of the famous “Baba Ka Dhaba” in South Delhi’s Malviya Nagar area, Kanta Prasad (80), was admitted to Safdarjung Hospital on Thursday night following a suicide bid, police said. | Read more|
DigiPub, a collective of digital media organisations, has strongly condemned the FIR filed against three journalists – Saba Naqvi, Rana Ayyub, Mohammad Zubair and The Wire for their tweets about a video in which an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad is seen describing the manner in which he was assaulted on June 5. | Read more|
After six months of agitation against the three Central farm legislations, protesting farmers are now also starting to slowly focus on local problems plaguing Haryana while continuing their fight against the contentious laws. | Read more|
The busy Chandni Chowk Road, which is currently under redevelopment, has been notified as a non-motorised zone, with motorised vehicles only being allowed during emergency. | Read more|
Four months after Prince Raj, Lok Janshakti Party MP from Samastipur, filed an FIR against two persons, including a woman, for allegedly demanding Rs 1 crore after threatening to implicate him in a false rape case, the woman has filed a sexual abuse complaint against him. | Read more|
A complaint has been lodged in Delhi against actor Swara Bhasker, the Managing Director of Twitter India and two others over "inflammatory tweets" on the assault on a Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad earlier this month. | Read more|
A rocket carrying the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft with three Chinese astronauts on board has blasted off from China’s Inner Mongolia in a historic launch that is critical for the completion of the country’s own space station. | Read more|
Several airline websites in the US and Australia suffered an outage early on Thursday, according to the tracking site Downdetector. | Read more|
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) today released the Class 12 evaluation criteria or the final strategy through which it will assess Class 12 students in the Supreme Court. | Read more|
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that talks with his American counterpart Joe Biden in Switzerland on Wednesday were positive and cordial in tone, and that progress was made on a number of international political issues. | Read more|
Six people have been booked in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district for allegedly abusing, assaulting and threatening to kill a Dalit man and his son. | Read more|
Israel says it carried out air strikes in Gaza overnight after Palestinians launched incendiary balloons from the territory, in the first major flare-up since an 11-day conflict last month. | Read more|