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NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the entire northeast region, barring one or two states, may be out of purview of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act by next year.Speaking at the signing of a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) among the Centre, Govt of Assam and Govt of Nagaland for oil…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the chief ministers of Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the 11th Niti Aayog Governing Council Meet, in New Delhi.The leaders held talks on a range of topics, including state affairs. Some of them also congratulated…

Arvind Kejriwal (Image source: ANI) NEW DELHI: AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message thanking US President Donald Trump for his wishes and said India’s sovereignty, dignity and national interest should remain paramount in its dealings with foreign nations.Reacting to a post by Modi on X in which he…

AI-generated image used for representation NEW DELHI: “Andhera chhatega, suraj niklega, kamal khilega.”When Atal Bihari Vajpayee uttered those words after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was reduced to just two seats in the 1984 Lok Sabha elections, it was more an expression of faith than a prophecy.More than four decades later, the BJP has emerged…

Nipah virus (Image source: PTI) Kerala health minister K Muraleedharan on Thursday confirmed that a suspected Nipah virus case in Kozhikode has tested positive, while final confirmation from the Virology Institute is still awaited.The patient was initially admitted to Crescent Hospital in Kozhikode with a high fever and was later shifted to another hospital after…

NEW DELHI: India’s next big tech leap won’t be AI — it’ll be quantum. That was the message from union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, who announced an Advanced Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications Lab at MNIT Jaipur on Thursday.Set up under MeitY’s Electronics and ICT Academic Project, the lab will build homegrown muscle in Quantum…

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday told the Calcutta High Court that West Bengal assembly speaker Biman Banerjee’s decision to recognise MLA Ritabrata Banerjee as the leader of the opposition (LoP) “hits the basic structure of the Constitution”.The submission was made before Justice Krishna Rao during a hearing on petitions filed by TMC chairperson Mamata…

1. Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal confirmed that all three Indian sailors reported missing after a US attack on the MT Settebello near the Strait of Hormuz have died. The vessel, carrying 24 Indian crew members, came under attack while transiting the Gulf of Oman.2. Palantir CEO Alex Karp cautioned tech leaders against publicly boasting about…

For millions of street vendors across India’s cities and towns, access to affordable credit was once an impossible dream. Moneylenders charged ruinous interest rates, banks turned them away, and a single setback — a bad monsoon, a city crackdown — could wipe out their entire working capital. PM SVANidhi Yojana, launched in June 2020, changed…

NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Thursday registered protest against repeated strikes on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz amid the renewed US-Iran-Israel war. This came after recent attack on Palau-flagged MT Settebello while transiting the Gulf of Oman which left 3 Indians dead.“There have been several incidents involving Indian seafarers in West…