GUWAHATI: Manipur government retracted its intelligence report from 10 days ago about the infiltration of “900 Kuki militants from Myanmar” amid concerns over the leakage of sensitive information as new police inputs surfaced Thursday that “Kuki National Army (KNA) cadres are set to escort arms, ammunition, and drugs from Myanmar”.Ningthoujam Geoffre, secretary to CM N…
Hemant Soren (File photo) RANCHI: Jharkhand government raised the farm loan waiver from Rs 50,000 to Rs 2 lakh a farmer on Thursday and benefitted around 1.77 lakh farmers the same day.“Farmers are the backbone of the country. They battle financial constraints and weather vagaries to produce food. We have been working to help ‘annadatas’,”…
Explosion of drone seen in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike (Reuters photo) KYIV: In the early hours of September 26, the familiar sound of air raid alerts filled the skies over Kyiv, starting at 4.30 am and lasting until 7.30 am. Residents once again took refuge in bomb shelters as…
NEW DELHI: With just days left for Haryana polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday sought to enthuse the BJP cadre saying that the party would get a third term in the state as people realise that its two previous ones marked a break from the corruption which had become the hallmark of the Congresss…
NEW DELHI: India’s Gaganyaan mission is not just about reaching space but about achieving “limitless heights of our scientific dreams,” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, as he virtually inaugurated three indigenously-developed Param Rudra supercomputing systems to facilitate pioneering scientific research, along with two high-performance computing (HPC) systems – ‘Arka’ and ‘Arunika’ – designed…
EAM Jaishankar meets Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov (ANI photo) As India steps up engagement with both Russia and Ukraine, discussing ongoing efforts to end the war, foreign minister S Jaishankar met his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the margins of the UNGA session. While Jaishankar said they discussed bilateral cooperation and regional issues, Russian foreign…
NEW DELHI: A record number of Indians are set to travel to the US this year. While calendar year 2023’s figure of 17.6 lakh desi visitors in America had already overtaken pre-Covid 2019 high of 14.7 lakh, over 15.5 lakh Indians have been there in just eight months from Jan to Aug this year. By…
France President Emmanuel Macron NEW DELHI: Taking note of the significant challenges to the multilateral system with the UN at its core, the G4 countries – India, Japan, Brazil and Germany – stressed that a comprehensive reform of the UN security council is an essential part of any endeavour to make the UN better reflect…
BHUBANESWAR/BENGALURU: Mukti Ranjan Ray, prime suspect in Bengaluru’s Mahalakshmi murder case in which the victim’s body was chopped into “59 pieces”, had planned to dispose of the remains after two-three months, his younger brother Satya claimed after 30-year-old allegedly died by suicide Wednesday in Odisha, reports Debabrata Mohapatra.Mukti and Mahalakshmi (29), who was separated from…
Two-time Oscar nominee David Bradbury (R) had arrived on Sept 11 with his daughter Nakeita, 21, and son Omar, 14, for a trip across India. While he was ‘deported’, the siblings continued with their trip CHENNAI: Australian filmmaker and two-time Oscar nominee David Bradbury, known for his documentary on anti-nuclear protests in southern Tamil Nadu’s…
