Ahead of EAM Jaishankar visit this week, India backs Sri Lanka’s focus on development | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: As he prepares to receive India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar this week, Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake met Indian high commissioner Santosh Jha who conveyed India’s readiness to support Sri Lanka‘s development process in any way possible, while also appreciating the president’s anti-corruption agenda.Taking to X, Dissanayake said that Jha emphasised that…

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Intern not hospital employee, says consumer commission, junks medical negligence claim | India News – Times of India

MUMBAI: Observing that a medical intern is not a hospital’s employee, the national consumer commission rejected a Mira Road father’s claim of Rs one crore, alleging that his 24-year-old doctor son died at his Amravati medical college and hospital due to medical negligence. “An intern cannot be equated with the regular employee. As per Black’s…

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Manipur Nagas in gunfight over land, securityman among 3 dead | India News – Times of India

GUWAHATI: A Manipur Rifles personnel was among three people killed in a gunfight over a land dispute between two Naga villages in Ukhrul district on Wednesday. The violent clash linked to a disagreement over the govt’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan initiative on the disputed site left several people wounded.Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew near the site,…

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Congress, IUML attack Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan for ‘giving communal twist’ to gold smuggling | India News – Times of India

KOZHIKODE: A statement purportedly misattributed to Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan about smuggled gold and hawala money entering the state’s predominantly Muslim Malappuram district for “anti-national” activities snowballed on Wednesday into a full-blown political slugfest, with Congress alleging that narratives usually spun by the Sangh Parivar were now coming out of the Left’s mouth.Vijayan’s clarification on…

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Recall Tom Hanks’ ‘Terminal’? Many may face similar plight amid Israel-Iran conflict | India News – Times of India

The Navlakhis said Lufthansa and passengers handled the situation well when their Frankfurt-Mumbai flight turned back just before entering Iran airspace NEW DELHI: Just over three hours into Lufthansa‘s Frankfurt-Mumbai flight on Tuesday, there was a sudden buzz onboard the Airbus A340 while it was in Turkish airspace. Half-sleepy post-lunch, passengers watching the live route…

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‘It’s getting scarier, tougher’: Indians living in Israel | India News – Times of India

KOLKATA/HYDERABAD: “It is getting scarier by the day,” said Nilabja Roychowdhury from Madhyamgram near Kolkata, who is studying medicine at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, as the Israel-Iran conflict escalated on Wednesday. “The situation is tough… We have not seen something as threatening as this ever,” said Rajesh Medicherla from Telangana, who works as a…

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Jaya Bachchan moves out of Nishikant Dubey panel, Mahua Moitra wants out too | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Acting on her request, Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan has been shifted to the departmental standing committee on labour, days after she was nominated to the committee on communications and information technology headed by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey.Sources said Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, who was also nominated to the committee headed by…

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Are 3 senior Karnataka mantris jockeying for chief minister’s chair? | India News – Times of India

BENGALURU: Amid growing speculation in Karnataka over Siddaramaiah‘s tenure as CM, senior ministers G Parameshwara, HC Mahadevappa, and Satish Jarkiholi met late Tuesday night, a gathering that has sparked speculation that these ministers could be lobbying for the top post.The meeting, which lasted for two hours at Mahadevappa’s official residence, was their third in the…

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