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India and Uzbekistan are set to expand cooperation in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors, following a high-level virtual meeting between key stakeholders from both countries.
Beijing/IBNS: India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday called on Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing during his first visit to China since the 2020 Galwan clash.
The Odisha student, who tried to self-immolate after allegedly enduring sexual harassment, died in Odisha's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bhubaneswar on Monday.
The Supreme Court slammed Indore-based cartoonist Hemant Malviya for an 'inflammatory' cartoon of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, which is the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's ideological mentor, with a link to Lord Shiva in the comments.
In a rare instance, the Supreme Court on Monday stayed the arrest and life sentence of a girl and her boyfriend while upholding their conviction in her fiancé's murder case.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has instructed all domestic airlines operating Boeing jets to conduct checks on switches that regulate fuel supply to the engines on those planes.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Monday where the two leaders spoke about building a stable and constructive relationship.
The bullet train project has achieved a major milestone of opening the first section of the 21 km undersea tunnel between BKC and Thane.
Indian Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), as an active member of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC), is hosting three days’Regional Workshop, in cooperation with the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UN SIAP) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) on “Data Ethics, Governance, and Quality in a Changing Data Ecosystem” for 16 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Centre on Monday said it has exhausted all its options to prevent the execution of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death by Yemen for allegedly killing a Yemeni national, media reports said.
Beijing/IBNS: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has strongly favoured "an open exchange of views and perspectives" between India and China in his first visit to Beijing since the 2020 Galwan clash.
New Delhi/IBNS: A 19-year-old Delhi University student, who was missing for six days, has been found dead in the Yamuna River, media reports said.
Bangladesh interim government chief Muhammad Yunus has sent a consignment of mangoes to Indian PM Narendra Modi as a goodwill gesture between the nations.
The Chinese Embassy to India on Sunday sent a strong message to New Delhi ahead of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's visit to Beijing and said the succession issue of the Dalai Lama remains a 'thorn' in the relationship between the two neighbours.
Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong during his visit to the country and expressed his gladness at the steady progress reached in various bilateral initiatives.
The Indian Railways has decided to install CCTV cameras in all coaches in a bid to enhance public safety.
New Delhi: A controversy has erupted in Delhi after BJP leaders alleged that broken glass pieces were deliberately strewn along the Kanwar Yatra route in Shahdara.
Warfare scholar and expert John Spencer praised India's Operation Sindoor and said the South Asian nation tested its indigenous systems versus the Chinese systems through the operation.
Eight Khalistani terrorists, including one of them, wanted in India by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), have been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US, officials said.
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu has nominated four individuals to the Rajya Sabha — eminent lawyer Ujjwal Nikam, former diplomat Harsh Vardhan Shringla, historian Dr Meenakshi Jain, and Kerala-based teacher and social worker C Sadanandan Master.
A speeding Audi car, which was allegedly driven by a drunk man, ran over five pavement dwellers, including an eight-year-old girl, leaving them hurt in the Indian capital city of New Delhi, media reports said.
Patna: A door-to-door survey under the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bihar’s voter lists has revealed that several people originally from Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar are currently residing in the state, NDTV reported, citing sources in the poll body.
Supporters of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) assaulted a migrant auto-rickshaw driver in Maharashtra's Palghar district in full public view following a prior confrontation over the Marathi language that had gone viral on social media.
A major fire broke out on four wagons of a goods train carrying diesel near the Tiruvallur railway station in Tamil Nadu around 5:30 am on Sunday, media reports said.
Veteran Telugu film actor and former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Kota Srinivasa Rao died on Sunday at the age of 83 due to prolonged illness at his residence in Hyderabad's Jubilee Hills, media reports said.
Three days after the chilling murder of Radhika Yadav, one of her friends shared an emotional video on social media where she revealed that the 25-year-old tennis player was shamed by her parents for wearing shorts and talking to boys.
Bengaluru: In a disturbing case of domestic violence, Kannada television actor and anchor Manjula Shruthi was brutally attacked by her husband Amresh over alleged suspicions of an extramarital affair.
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has unearthed a massive religious conversion network allegedly operated by self-styled godman Jalaluddin, also known as Chhangur Baba, who is accused of targeting young Hindu women using coded language and false promises of a better life.
Gokarna (Karnataka): A 40-year-old Russian national and her two young daughters were rescued from a cave deep in the forest atop Ramatirtha Hill in Gokarna, where they had been living in isolation, media reports said.
New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu on Saturday emphasised that the findings in the June 12 Air India crash report are only preliminary, cautioning the public and media against drawing conclusions before the final investigation is complete, media reports said.
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