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India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish (Photo: ANI). India on Thursday strongly condemned attacks against commercial vessels, advocating freedom of navigation and unimpeded maritime commerce at the United Nations.India’ permanent Representative to the United Nations, Harish Parvathaneni, stressed the need to protect seafarers in accordance with international law.Speaking at the UN Security…

NEW DELHI: A glacial lake outburst in Bhutan has triggered a flash flood, sending large volumes of water downstream through the Mo Chhu river towards the Sankosh river and prompting authorities in West Bengal to sound a high alert across North Bengal. More than 10,000 people have been moved to shelters and safer locations as…

Amid heaps of trash, countless underprivileged children in India sort waste to earn a meager living, an invisible workforce fueling the country’s recycling economy. NEW DELHI: India has lifted an estimated 496 million people out of poverty between 2011 and 2023, recording one of the world’s fastest declines in poverty over the period. However, significant…

Anti-dam protests spread in Arunachal as police seek warrants against four protesters. GUWAHATI: The standoff over Arunachal Pradesh’s proposed 11,200MW Siang dam intensified Thursday, with police seeking search warrants against four people, including a senior journalist and an advocate, over violence in Pasighat, and protesters in state capital Itanagar demanding the release of 27 arrested…

NEW DELHI: How much time do teaching doctors spend away from hospitals, and what happens to patient care and classes when they do? The Centre is seeking detailed records from three Delhi medical institutions as an expert panel reviews summer and winter vacations for govt medical colleges faculty.An expert committee constituted by Union health ministry…

SC said it is not inclined to completely ban firecrackers but warned authorities that orders are meaningless without ground-level enforcement NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday said it was not inclined to completely ban firecrackers, but there was no point in passing orders and directions every year unless authorities implement them on the ground.“It concerns every…

SC slammed the corporate affairs ministry for “completely hijacking” NCLT and NCLAT, citing infrastructure failures, large vacancies and contractual hiring that undermine the tribunals’ autonomy. New Delhi: In an outburst sure to embarrass the govt, Supreme Court Thursday slammed the ministry of corporate affairs for “completely hijacking” the two most important quasi-judicial financial adjudicatory bodies…

File photo: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh NEW DELHI: A day after PM Narendra Modi’s sarcastic remark questioning the seats won by Congress in MLC polls, the party shot back that the PM should introspect why BJP lost in his constituency Varanasi, RSS headquarters of Nagpur, and other places.Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh said the MLC polls…

File photo: Jan Suraaj Chief and MLA Prashant Kishor, along with party candidates NEW DELHI: An analysis by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) shows that Jan Suraaj, which contested 238 seats in the 2025 Bihar assembly elections but won none, had declared an income of Rs 101.32 crore, including donations of Rs 99.40 crore,…

File photo: Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) NEW DELHI: Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has imposed penalties on online business directory Justdial and Sunrise Foods for violations involving consumer safety and misleading product claims.While it slapped a Rs 10 lakh penalty on Justdial for allowing listings of ammonium nitrate, a regulated explosive substance, on its…