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NCP workers disrupted a press conference of Maharashtra Congress chief Harshvardhan Sapkal NEW DELHI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) workers disrupted a press conference held by Maharashtra Congress president Harshvardhan Sapkal on Tuesday, a day after the opposition party targeted NCP president and Maharashtra deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar with the remark “gungi dudiya” (mute doll).A…

CM Yogi also accused the SP and the Congress of using the issue to defame UP. NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said no sadhu or saint has been found involved in the alleged Ram Temple donation embezzlement case. CM Yogi said the finding was part of the preliminary report submitted…

File photo: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren (picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday broke his silence on the ongoing recruitment row, saying his government was examining the concerns of protesting job aspirants with “complete seriousness” and that decisions would be taken “at the appropriate time” after all aspects of…

Could India get its own fire cloud? (Image: AP) In July 2026, firefighters in southwest France watched something the country had never recorded before: a burning forest near Bordeaux, which manifested as a churning, anvil-shaped cloud, dark with smoke and crackling with its own lightning. It was a pyrocumulonimbus, a “fire cloud”, born when a…

There was a time when I thought ethanol might define the next phase of my professional life.I accepted a role as the Managing Director at a company which operated sugar mills in Andhra Pradesh. I accepted the role with one private understanding. I would give the industry two years. If I concluded that ethanol represented…

The protesters gathered at Gandhi Maidan before marching towards the CM’s residence. NEW DELHI: Hundreds of students and youth activists took to the streets in Patna on Tuesday, accusing the Bihar government of failing to honour its promise to release students arrested during last month’s NEET paper leak protests. Police used water cannons to disperse…