Category: India

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said that Pakistan would not allow India “to cross the red line” by holding the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance, PTI news agency reported, citing local media. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at the passing out parade at the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) Kakul, in Abbottabad.(AFP) Speaking at a […]

Pakistan on Friday announced to upgrade its diplomatic ties with Afghanistan and appoint an ambassador to the country, a major indicator of improvement in ties between the two neighbours. Pakistan is looking to upgrade its ties with Afghanistan(AFP) Pakistan had tacitly applauded the capture of Kabul by Taliban in 2021 with the hope that the regime […]

A court here has sentenced a man to rigorous imprisonment of 20 years for repeatedly raping and having unnatural sex with his 13-year-old daughter, saying that the victim was going through a never ending ordeal, where years after the crime, she feared that if her father were sentenced, she would be blamed by society. The case […]

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday reacted to Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy’s statement that “had Rahul Gandhi been the prime minister, India would have taken PoK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir) back”. Union MoS (Independent Charge) of Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh during an event at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.(ANI) Union minister and BJP leader Jitendra […]

Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu on Friday said a public hearing would be conducted once the pre-feasibility report for the proposed Siang Upper Multipurpose Hydropower Project (SUMHP) is completed and underlined that the consent of local residents would be key to the government’s decision on the project. Khandu stressed that the PFR was a […]

Tap a screen, and groceries land at your door. Click a button, and a cab arrives. Swipe right, and a world of entertainment unfolds. The interface is smooth, the experience seamless. But look closer, and you’ll notice something peculiar: a hand behind the curtain is constantly nudging you. Sometimes gently. Sometimes hard enough to tip you […]

May 30, 2025 06:28 PM IST Goa, which was elevated from a union territory (UT) to a state in 1987, became the second state after Mizoram to be declared a fully functionally literate state Panaji: Goa has become the second state in India to be officially declared fully literate under the ULLAS (Understanding Lifelong Learning for […]

The Hindu Kush Himalaya could lose up to 75 per cent of its glaciers by the year 2100 if global temperatures rise by 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, revealed a study published by the Science journal.    The Hindu Kush Himalaya’s could lose most of their glaciers by 2100(Representative image) Glacier loss, also known as […]

Maharashtra police have registered an FIR against a senior government doctor for allegedly instructing another medic to “kill” a Covid-19 patient during the second wave of the crisis in 2021. The patient in question, Kausar Fatima, was admitted with Covid-19 symptoms on April 15, 2021.(HT Photo) The accused, Dr Shashikant Deshpande, who was the additional district […]

Union defence minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that India will use the firepower of its navy in response to any future aggression by Pakistan. Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi and others during an interaction aboard aircraft carrier INS Vikrant off Goa.(PTI) Addressing officers and sailors […]