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With the US and Iran set to sign an interim peace agreement on Friday, PM Narendra Modi told President Donald Trump he was confident that the issue of seafarers will receive the “highest priority” during the implementation of this agreement, while appreciating the president’s “tremendous efforts” in reaching the deal. The leaders spoke to the…

Two of the six Sena UBT MPs said to be part of the breakaway group, Omraje Nimbalkar from Dharashiv and Sanjay Patil from Mumbai North East, have not signed the letter sent to LS Speaker for recognition as a separate group, Sena UBT claimed.Patil and Nimbalkar claimed they were not in New Delhi on Wednesday….

NEW DELHI: Long confined to street-corner arguments, village chaupals and late-night college addas, cuss words such as ‘b…sdi’ and ‘g…u’ found a place in mainstream political discourse on Wednesday, with Sena UBT’s Sanjay Raut using them at a presser to describe defectors, and then telling reporters, “Don’t cut it, run it.“When questioned on his language,…

CHENNAI: Holding that mala fide intent could not be ruled out in a proposal to build a church in the vicinity of a Hindu temple, Madras HC has stayed its construction in Coimbatore.“Coimbatore is a communally sensitive city. It witnessed bomb blasts and bloody religious riots. The proposed church would come up within a stone’s…

Representative photo (AP) NEW DELHI: Drug price regulator National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA) has approved a 20% price hike for Serum Institute of India‘s BCG, measles and measles-rubella vaccines.This move is unusual since price hikes are rare when one company dominates the market.NPPA had fixed the pr-ice ceiling in Dec 2024 based on Pharmarack data…

NEW DELHI: Even as suits concerning Indian Forest Service officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi have seen over a dozen judges recuse themselves, a similar case has been pending in Punjab and Haryana HC since 2022. The case related to the dismissal of judicial officer Amrish Kumar Jain has witnessed the recusal of four HC judges, including then…

NEW DELHI: Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Punjab have emerged as the biggest dole givers, with subsidies accounting for over 13.5% of their total expenditure in 2024-25, Comptroller & Auditor General has said in its latest report on state finances.In absolute terms, subsidies offered by states have jumped threefold, with 28 of them spending…

JAMMU: J&K Police Wednesday claimed to have busted a major narco-terror nexus with links extending to Punjab and across the border, and arrested 20, including three alleged kingpins. The drug supply chain had been feeding narcotics into the Union Territory, SSP Jammu Joginder Singh said.Surajdeep Singh, Harpreet Singh alias Raju, and Jaspreet, who were arrested…

India will “always be” on the side of peace, placing the values of humanity over everything else, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday after holding talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Modi met Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the G7 summit in the French commune of Evian-Les-Bains.“Met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Evian. In recent times,…

NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday directed the agencies engaged in detection and prevention of cyber crimes and frauds, to further strengthen the national cyber crime helpline ‘1930’, both in terms of technology and infrastructure.Chairing a review meeting here to discuss issues relating to the helpline, Shah said the ‘1930’ reporting and redressal…