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NEW DELHI: Former ISRO chairman Dr S Somanath used his address at the 71st National Conference of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Friday to underline the co-existence of “faith and facts” in India’s scientific tradition, urging students to embrace both knowledge and cultural rootedness as the country pushes into a new technological era….

NEW DELHI: Several tourists were left suspended nearly 120 feet above ground at a private sky-dining facility in Kerala’s Anachal, Idukki, after a crane suffered a technical failure on Friday. The visitors remained stuck for over one and a half hours.Rescue teams arrived at the site and efforts to bring them down safely are under…

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to be on a two-day visit to India, starting December 4, AFP reported citing Kremlin on Friday. During his visit, the Russian president is likely to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.This will be Putin’s first trip to India since the Russia-Ukraine war began in February 2022. His last visit…

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday took a jibe at the ongoing internal tussle in Congress party in Karnataka. After Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah‘s “word power” post, BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla quipped that the party’s “words & worlds revolving around the chair”, adding that a new “episode has been added to this ongoing OTT series…

Sonam Wangchuk and Upendra Dwivedi (Images/Agencies) NEW DELHI: A digitally manipulated video of Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi was circulated online by a Pakistan-based propaganda handle on Thursday. The fake clip falsely claimed that he had issued a statement about the alleged custodial death of detained Ladakh climate activist Sonam Wangchuk.The Press Information…

Calling the death of 26 BLOs over the last 20 days “murder” by BJP brass and CEC, Congress on Thursday alleged that the governing party is seeking to divert attention from “blatant vote chori” by peddling lies about the location of social media ‘X’ handles linked to Congress, arguing that BJP handles too are shown…

Confirmation of Ahmedabad as the host city for the 2030 Commonwealth Games (CWG) has sounded the starting gun for an accelerated infrastructure race across the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar belt. The Commonwealth Sport General Assembly’s approval on Wednesday has pushed the twin cities into delivery mode, with officials stressing that major venue construction plans are locked into a…

NEW DELHI: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which now fully secures the Parliament House complex (PHC), has okayed an extended four-year tenure for its personnel on Parliament security duty, which may be further stretched by a year. The move is aimed at striking the right balance between operational continuity, so as to enhance familiarity…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday suggested enacting a law on the line of the stringent SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act to deter ridiculing of differently abled people, but the Union govt flagged the potential adverse impact of such legislation on creative artists depicting individuals with disability in movies and theatres.Hearing a petition…

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav during the ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ (PTI) NEW DELHI: Disproportionate focus on SIR/vote chori at the cost of crucial local issues of cost of living, migration and corruption was cited by some senior functionaries as a reason for the decimation of Congress in…