Farmer’s son gets 100% scholarship to Cornell
LUCKNOW: Scoring 98.2% in CBSE Class XII exams is just another feather in the cap of this son of a…
India: Dedicated to financing, constructing Chabahar train job
NEW DELHI: India refuted Iran’s contention that it is out of the Chabahar-Zahedan rail project, with senior Indian officials saying…
In this Telangana village, tribal children get their first lesson
Nestled within the forests of Mulugu district — about 200km km from Hyderabad — the tiny hamlet of Neelam Thogu…
India records 30,000+ cases in a day, Covid toll goes past 24k
NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 pandemic worsened in the country as fresh cases on Tuesday zoomed past the 30,000 mark for…
India fast-tracking processes to develop Covid-19 vaccine: ICMR
NEW DELHI: India is among many other countries like Russia, China, US and UK fast-tracking processes to develop a vaccine…
Lost opportunity: On India losing Chabahar task
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Field on track: On cricket’s reboot sans fans
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Rajasthan political crisis | No immediate threat to Congress government in the State
After the political turmoil created by Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot’s rebellion resulting in his removal from the Cabinet on…
Rajasthan political crisis | Former spokesperson Sanjay Jha suspended
Staff Reporter Mumbai , July 14, 2020 23:02 IST Updated: July 14, 2020 23:22 IST Sanjay Jha. Staff Reporter Mumbai…
Sachin Pilot expected to spell out his future intend on July 15
Rebel Congress leader Sachin Pilot is expected to spell out his future plans on Wednesday, a source close to Mr.…
Centre’s standards limit class screen time
Schools can hold live online classes for a maximum of 1.5 hours per day for Classes 1-8, and three hours…
Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat mean Sachin Pilot’s entry into BJP
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. | Photo Credit: PTI Any leader with a mass base should be welcomed, said Jal Shakti Minister…
Rajasthan political crisis | Decoding Vasundhara Raje’s silence on Sachin Pilot
BJP leader and former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje. File | Photo Credit: PTI The former chief minister’s silence on events…
Sachin Pilot sacked as Deputy Chief Minister, State Congress chief
The political crisis in Rajasthan took a dramatic turn on Tuesday with the Congress sacking rebel leader Sachin Pilot both…
Biden clean-energy plan would spend $2 trillion over four years
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday will lay out an ambitious climate plan that would seek to…
China conceals Galwan casualties as US alerts against its aggressiveness
WASHINGTON: China is taking a leaf out of Pakistan’s book in covering up casualties in its border clash with India…
US performs the first federal execution in almost 2 years
Daniel Lewis. (AP photo)TERRE HAUTE, Indiana: The federal government on Tuesday carried out its first execution in almost two decades,…
Coronavirus live updates: Complete lockdown in Bihar from July 16-31, Dy CM Sushil Kumar Modi says
Nagpur: The income tax office in the city has been closed for three days after a senior official was tested…
Sattankulam custodial deaths case: CBI gets custody of accused till July 16
B. Tilak Chandar Madurai, July 14, 2020 15:30 IST Updated: July 14, 2020 15:30 IST The five Sattankulam policemen, accused…
Final year undergraduate Open Book Evaluation from Aug 10: Delhi University to HC
A scene at the Delhi University during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. File. | Photo…
LAC standoff: Indian and Chinese commanders hold talks on more disengagement in eastern Ladakh
Indian and Chinese military commanders on Tuesday began a crucial round of negotiations to finalise a framework for a time-bound…
No medical examination required for trans ID certificate, say draft guidelines
Trans persons would be required to fill out a form and submit an affidavit saying they perceive themselves to be…
BJP MLA’s death was ‘due to impacts of hanging’, says post-mortem report
Debendra Nath Roy. West Bengal Home Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay says the government will take the probe in the matter to…
Rajasthan political crisis | Congress MLAs holed up in Jaipur hotel, doors still open for Sachin Pilot
A day after Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot showed his strength by organising a Congress Legislature Party meet at his…
Varavara Rao confessed under neurology department of Mumbai’s JJ Medical facility
Varavara Rao paying homage to Maoist leader M. Koteswar Rao in Kolkata in 2011. Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury | Photo Credit:…
Week-long lockdown in Bengaluru districts from Tuesday night
The week-long lockdown in Bengaluru Urban and Rural districts, from Tuesday night, will have more restrictions than the previous lockdown.Shops…
7 reasons you should pursue a degree in Liberal Arts from Bennett University
The last few months have proved that you need education that empowers you in this rapidly changing society and economy;…
Govt bungalow row: What Puri, Priyanka said on Twitter
NEW DELHI: Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday engaged in a war of…
Congress sacks Sachin Pilot as Rajasthan deputy CM, PCC chief
JAIPUR: Sachin Pilot has been removed as deputy chief minister and Rajasthan PCC Chief, Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said…
US Supreme Court clears way for execution of federal prisoner
Daniel Lewis Lee had been scheduled to receive a lethal dose of the powerful sedative pentobarbital TERRE HAUTE: The Trump…
White Home campaign prompts out of work to ‘find something new’
WASHINGTON: A new White House-backed ad campaign aims to encourage people who are unemployed or unhappy in their jobs or…
U.S. declines China’s claims in South China Sea
In this file photo taken on October 21, 2016, the guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur (DDG 73) operates in the South…
BCCI selects Hemang Amin as interim CEO
The logo of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) outside its headquarters in Mumbai. | Photo Credit:…
Iran drops India from Chabahar rail task, cites funding hold-up
Four years after India and Iran signed an agreement to construct a rail line from Chabahar port to Zahedan, along…
A crisis in pause: on Rajasthan Congress disobedience
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Gains from rains: on monsoon efficiency
July 14, 2020 00:02 IST Updated: July 14, 2020 01:04 IST July 14, 2020 00:02 IST Updated: July 14, 2020…
BJP wary after Maharashtra experience
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Deputy CM Sachin Pilot. File The party is treading with caution after the debacle of…
Amidst overtures to Sachin Pilot, Rajasthan Congress Legislature Celebration backs Gehlot
The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) in Rajasthan on Monday expressed faith in the leadership of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot amid…
Covid-19 dictates major changes to India’s 2020-21 cricket schedule
The Indian think tank has its task cut out in the coming weeks. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)MUMBAI: The chronological…
US rejects Chinese claims in South China Sea
WASHINGTON: The United States on Monday rejected China's disputed claims to offshore resources in most of the South China Sea,…
India deals with joint Pak-China danger in Indian Ocean
NEW DELHI: The collusive China-Pakistan threat along the land borders is slowly but surely extending to the maritime domain as…
No. of students getting 95%+ in CBSE Class 12 surges 119%
NEW DELHI: The Class XII CBSE results, declared under the shadow of the unprecedented pandemic of our times, has thrown…
Bengal BJP MLA found hanging outside shop
NORTH DINAJPUR: The body of CPM-turned-BJP MLA from Hemtabad, Debendra Nath Roy was found hanging in front of a closed…
India’s Covid count crosses 9 lakh; 28.6 k cases, 538 deaths on Mon
NEW DELHI: India’s Covid-19 caseload zoomed past the 9 lakh mark, just three days after crossing 8 lakh, as the…
Google to invest $10 billion in India’s digitisation push
BENGALURU/NEW DELHI: Google will pump in $10 billion (around Rs 75,000 crore) in India over the next 5-7 years. The…
White House throws Fauci under the bus as pandemic punishes areas that reopened early
WASHINGTON: The Trump White House is throwing Dr Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease specialist who has been leading the…
Rajasthan political crisis: Top developments
NEW DELHI: The political crisis in Rajasthan Congress intensified on Monday, with both chief minister Ashok Gehlot and his estranged…
Pilot not joining BJP, CM’s back garden not place to prove majority, say sources close to deputy CM
NEW DELHI: The government headed by Ashok Gehlot does not have the numbers and the Chief Minister's back garden is…
NIA thinks terror-funding in Kerala gold smuggling case
Ramees, an accused in the Thiruvananthapuram gold smuggling case, being brought by the Customs to be produced before the Additional…
Navy to get brand-new carrier-based jet by 2032, to replace MiG-29K
To the sunset: A file photo of a MiG 29K taking off from aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya. | Photo Credit:…