Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his visit to Norway, called for a peaceful resolution of the ongoing conflicts in West Asia and Ukraine. He said military action alone cannot solve such crises and stressed that dialogue and diplomacy remain the only sustainable path to...
Dubai/Washington - President Donald Trump's swift rejection of Iran's response to a U.S. peace proposal sent oil prices surging on Monday amid concerns the 10-week-old conflict will drag on, keeping shipping through the Strait...
New Delhi: Lieutenant General NS Raja Subramani (Retd), who is known within the military circles for being both a soldier-scholar and an operational man, has been appointed the new Chief of Defence Staff and...
New Delhi: India’s Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced this week that Formula 1 is poised to return to the country by 2027, though league officials were quick to dismiss the timeline as overly optimistic.
Mandaviya told...
India has relaxed its foreign investment rules for overseas companies that have up to 10% Chinese shareholding, making it easier for such firms to invest in the country. The change is aimed at...
India's Goods and Services Tax (GST) system delivered its strongest-ever performance in April 2026, collecting a staggering ₹2.43 lakh crore in gross revenue. This marked an 8.7% year-on-year (YoY) increase from ₹2.23 lakh...
India has recorded its first-ever seizure of Captagon, the highly addictive synthetic stimulant often referred to as the ‘Jihadi drug’, with the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) busting a consignment worth ₹182 crore during a major anti-drug operation.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced the breakthrough on Saturday, describing it as a significant success in the Centre’s fight against narcotics trafficking and transnational drug networks. The seizure was made under ‘Operation RAGEPILL’, and officials also arrested a foreign national linked to the consignment that was allegedly meant for the Middle East.
The operation comes amid increasing global concern over the spread of Captagon trafficking networks across West Asia and Europe. International agencies...
India has recorded its first-ever seizure of Captagon, the highly addictive synthetic stimulant often referred to as the ‘Jihadi drug’, with the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) busting a consignment worth ₹182 crore during...
BEIJING - A year ago, U.S. President Donald Trump predicted that towering trade tariffs would bring America's main economic rival to heel.
He heads to China this week with that ambition blunted by court rulings,...
On the outer wall of the Airavatesvara Temple in Tamil Nadu, a 12th-century stone carving shows a woman giving birth while standing upright, supported...
On April 7, Anthropic, the AI company behind the coding and productivity-focused Large Language Model (LLM) family Claude, announced Mythos. This is its most...
Sudan's devastating civil war has reached its fourth year, prompting a dire warning from the United Nations' top aid official. Denise Brown, UN Humanitarian...
In 2024 alone, the UN verified around 4,500 cases of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), though the real number is likely much higher. An overwhelming...
Gaza: On 4th January 2025, Israel has ordered the evacuation of two major hospitals in northern Gaza, the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital, as...