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Under the Vaccine Maitri initiative, nearly 95 lakh doses have been supplied to Nepal and 5.5 lakh doses to Bhutan

Lloyd Austin and S. Jaishankar committed to expanding information-sharing and logistics cooperation to drive deeper operational coordination between the U.S. and Indian militaries

The Centre has issued a notification saying about 100 awards and several fellowships in science were being discontinued. Private endowment awards have been cancelled. Most departments will now have one award of “high stature”.

Days after the Supreme Court passed an order staying deportation of an Assam-based woman who was declared foreigner despite allegedly being born here and though all her family members including brothers, sisters and in-laws are Indian citizens, the court is facing a “deluge” of such cases.

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The Centre’s directive to take down a Twitter account for a particular tweet goes against Sec 69A of the IT Act and is a violation of the right to equality enshrined in Art 14, the multi-blogging platform said in the Karnataka HC on Monday. Twitter has approached the HC, challenging a series of blocking orders issued by the Centre from February 2, 2021, till Feb 28, 2022.

The Supreme Court Monday sought responses from the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government on a plea filed by Nalini Sriharan, serving life sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, seeking premature release.

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the decision of the Gujarat high court quashing a criminal case filed against actor Shah Rukh Khan and others, who were booked for causing a stampede in 2017 at the Vadodara railway station while promoting his film.

The mission was devised to determine whether a spacecraft is capable of changing the trajectory of an asteroid through sheer kinetic force

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging a Bombay high court order directing Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to demolish unauthorised portions of Union minister Narayan Rane’s Juhu residence ‘Aadhish’.

In order to address the unanticipated surge in demand for police clearance certificates (PCCs), the Union ministry of external affairs (MEA) has decided to include the facility to apply for PCC services at all online Post Office Passport Seva Kendras (POPSKs) across India, starting September 28, the government announced on Monday.

Dengue cases in West Bengal continued to rise with the state health department reporting 840 new infections on Monday.

Eight women and two girls were killed and another 20, including several minors, critically injured when a tractor-trolley carrying 47 people skidded, overturned and plunged into a pond by the road in Ituanja on the outskirts of Lucknow on Monday morning.

India recorded 4,129 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid cases to 4,45,72,243. According to Union health ministry data the active cases of COVID-19…

The Union I&B ministry has got 45 videos on 10 Youtube channels blocked. The videos, with a cumulative viewership of over 1.3 crore, were found to disseminate fake and anti-India content on Kashmir and Agnipath scheme, the Centre said.

‘Tarikh Pe Tarikh’ may well become a thing of the past as the Supreme Court gets strict with lawyers seeking adjournments and such pleas, even from senior lawyers, are now being denied.

Even as Congress termed the boycott by MLAs close to Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot “gross indiscipline”, it is learned that the party is scrambling to salvage the situation and has reached out to the state leadership. The party brass is in a dilemma owing to the AICC presidential election, for which Gehlot is the top contender.

Unlike CUET-UG, NTA has announced subject-wise toppers for the postgraduate entrance exam. Among universities, BHU received the maximum number of 3.5 lakh applications, followed by JNU with 2.3 lakh.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that the stability, security and prosperity of the Indo-Pacific should be secured as the global situation has become very challenging.

Delhi’s PM10 level reduced from 241g/m3 in 2017 to 196 g/m3 in 2021-22. Similarly, the PM10 level in Mumbai reduced from 151g/m3 in 2017 to 106 g/m3 in 2021-22 whereas it reduced from 119 g/m3 in 2017 to 105 g/m3 in Kolkata in 2021-22.

Foreign minister S Jaishankar publicly expressed India’s displeasure over the $450 million sustainment package for Pakistan’s F-16 fleet as he said Washington was “not fooling any- body” by claiming the fighter jets were meant for counter-terrorism purposes.

Three security guards were injured after a group of men allegedly attacked them with axes and sticks at a builder project site in sector 106 here, police said on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Tuesday to attend the state funeral of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe.

Amid the power struggle in Rajasthan, a number of hoardings have come up across the city – which is CM Ashok Gehlot’s hometown – that read “Naye Yug ki Taiyari (Getting ready for a new era)”.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Monday on Pakistan to seek debt relief from its close partner China as floods devastate the South Asian country.

Observing that it is a legitimate expectation of a person to get expeditious hearing on bail petition, the SC expressed its displeasure over the Bombay HC for keeping bail plea of ex-Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh pending for the last six months and asked the HC to grant him a hearing during the course of the week. The SC said that HC even failed to implement its order.

As part of a series of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ (India75) and US-India 75th anniversary celebrations, an event to highlight the cultural heritage of indigenous tribes in Arunachal Pradesh, ‘Living Heritage of Arunachal’, will be held on Tuesday.

A level-1 fire broke out in a store in Yash Plaza, a commercial building on Dr D’Silva road near Shagun Hotel in Mumbai’s Dadar West on Monday night.

Amid the crisis in Rajasthan, the rebuff from the Gehlot camp stands in stark contrast to the ease with which Congress replaced Amarinder Singh as the chief minister of Punjab last year, underscoring the growing belief that an ever-weakening Congress would leave the leadership vulnerable to state satraps with hold over local units.

The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau on Monday arrested the chief engineer of the Public Health Engineering Department and a private person while accepting a bribe of Rs 10.40 lakh, officials said.

The Congress on Monday said the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and all BJP leaders on the murder of the receptionist of a resort in Uttarakhand shows their insensitivity.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry says Motoki Tatsunori had been declared persona non grata and ordered to leave the country within 48 hours.

Mumbai Police’s Anti Extortion Cell on Monday arrested businessman Riyaz Bhati in connection with an extortion case, officials said.

S Jaishankar has informed the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) that it had raised with Pakistan the forced religious conversion of a Sikh woman and conveyed that it is expected that strict…

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Monday said stern action will be taken if the state police receive a complaint of Central agencies targetting anyone “unnecessarily”.

Congress’s Siddaramaiah today took the corruption allegations against the state’s BJP government to the next level, slamming it over a proposed pledge to end the alleged bribery culture in government

The Delhi Police is renowned for using humorous tweets to raise awareness about traffic laws and safety precautions.

A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district sentenced a 25-year-old man to life imprisonment on Monday for raping an 11-year-old girl and then burning her to death three years ago.

Numerous activists and lawyers have also been held, including the prominent freedom of speech campaigner Hossein Ronaghi who was arrested over the weekend, reports in Persian-language media abroad said.

A Delhi-bound plane was forced to land at the Kannur International Airport on Monday due to a bird-hit soon after take-off.

Snowden is one of 75 foreign citizens listed by the decree as being granted Russian citizenship. The decree was published on an official government website.

The Supreme Court is all set to live-stream its constitution bench proceedings from today.

Tourists will now have a better opportunity to enjoy breathtaking views during their journey up the meandering tracks to Darjeeling from New Jalpaiguri in north Bengal with the introduction of a…

The Delhi High Court Monday refused to stay the Centre’s order dismissing Satish Chandra Verma, a senior IPS officer who had assisted the CBI in its probe in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, a…

Rights organisations and government critics slammed the arrests, pointing to Sri Lankan authorities’ actions evidently contradicting the Foreign Minister’s pledge at the UN forum

In a breather for Anil Ambani, the Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Income Tax department not to take any coercive action against him till November 17 on a show cause notice seeking to…

Along with the five who were killed, at least 13 other civilians were wounded in the clashes that continued overnight, Libyan Health Ministry’s emergency services said.

The former minister further claimed that the hacker who allegedly leaked these audios had more important audios which are yet to surface.

Travellers, regardless of citizenship, will not have to go through testing, quarantine, and isolation requirements