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New Delhi: As the March 31, 2026 deadline for making the country “Naxal-free” approaches, security forces are in the final leg of intelligence-based operations to get the remaining ‘Big Four’ of the CPI(Maoist) leadership — three politburo-cum-central committee members and one central committee member — and an estimated “300-350 regular, uniformed cadres of concern” still…

Ajit Pawar’s wife and Rajya Sabha MP, Sunetra Pawar, is set to take over the reins of the party after his passing as she ticks the boxes of seniority, parity (with the rest of the Pawars), continuity and stability that the party wants bold and underlined.While the names of Ajit’s sons Jay and Parth are…

New Delhi: Russian state-run atomic energy corporation Rosatom, during the India Energy Week in Goa, presented an integrated proposal for large power units and small modular reactors (SMRs), including floating power units — a unique Russian technology for countries like India with long coastlines and developed island territories.Rosatom also presented a comprehensive approach to solving…

New Delhi: The govt may consider allowing export of wheat as the stock of the foodgrain with Food Corporation of India is now almost double of the required buffer and the prospect of a bumper harvest this year.As per govt data, the overall wheat sown area this year is at a record 33.4 million hectare,…

NEW DELHI: Delay in municipal elections in cities like Mumbai and Bengaluru has deprived their civic bodies from getting grants earmarked as per the 15th Finance Commission. The tenure of the current commission ends on Saturday. All grants under the commission were linked to the timely election for municipal entities.Considering that the civic election in…

NEW DELHI: Shaheen Malik does not call it a victory. When her petition came up before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the Bench made observations that could reshape how acid attack cases are treated—flagging the need for “extraordinary punitive measures”, questioning why the assets of convicted attackers cannot be seized and auctioned to compensate victims,…

Who will be Ajit Pawar’s political successor? NEW DELHI: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Friday that it is up to the NCP to choose its next leader following the untimely demise of party chief and Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar.The BJP leader added that both his party and the state government would support…

Photo credit: X/@NewIndAssurance MUMBAI: New India Assurance reported a 28.86% rise in net profit to Rs 826 crore for the December quarter, driven by higher investment income and steady growth in premium collections, even as one-time wage-related provisions weighed on underwriting results. Profit before tax rose 61.89% year-on-year to Rs 824 crore in Q3 FY26.Premium…

Sharad Pawar, Sunetra Pawar & Supriya Sule NEW DELHI: The sudden death of Maharashtra deputy chief minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Ajit Pawar in a plane crash has triggered fresh churn in the state’s politics, reopening talks of a reunification of the two NCP factions led by the Pawar’s.The rumoured merger of the…

NEW DELHI: In a significant push to strengthen India’s biomedical and clinical research ecosystem, directors of 20 All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) institutions on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to set up a Pan-India collaborative research consortium.The agreement was signed during the meeting of AIIMS Directors convened at AIIMS, New Delhi, marking…