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Kerala Fest Claims Centre Refused Clearance; I&B Min Points To Norms Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi: The ongoing 30th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) plunged into a crisis following the Centre’s refusal to grant censor exemption certificates to several films, including Soviet auteur Sergei Eisenstein’s black and white classic, ‘Battleship Potemkin’, leading to cancellations, uncertainty in scheduling…

NEW DELHI: Congress on Tuesday protested both inside and outside Parliament against the “anti-people” G RAM G bill, with its MP Shashi Tharoor – who the party has accused of being soft on BJP – taking a dig at the governmentt in Lok Sabha by recalling an old Bollywood number – “dekho o deewano (tum)…

Pune/Nashik: Conviction over securing a flat under a 10% EWS quota in 1995 by showing lower income has put a question mark over Manikrao Kokate’s continuation as an MLA and as a Maharashtra cabinet minister. A Nashik sessions court upheld Tuesday a Feb 20 trial court judgment convicting and sentencing the sports minister and NCP…

NEW DELHI: Delhi environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Tuesday announced that all private vehicles below BS-VI standards and not registered in Delhi will be barred from entering the capital from Thursday. This restriction will continue till stages III and IV of the Graded Response Action Plan (Grap) are in force.No vehicle without a PUC…

New Delhi: As hill cities and major tourist destinations face the challenge of tackling mammoth landfills of plastic and other municipal waste, Centre has decided to roll out Clean Himalayan Cities Initiative soon to provide financial and technical assistance. Speaking at a workshop organised by the housing and urban affairs ministry, experts working in these…

NEW DELHI: Gujarat government on Tuesday imposed an immediate ban on the storage, sale, and distribution of rolling papers and pre-rolled cones, citing health risks, the state home department said.These ultra-thin paper sheets and cones are commonly sold at grocery stores and paan shops across the state. They are mainly used by tobacco smokers to…

Conclave on Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam – Civilisational Dialogue was organised jointly by the Centre for Studies in International Relations (CSIR), Jamia Millia Islamia, and MAKAIS, Kolkata. The event took place on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, and included an inaugural session followed by three plenary discussions.In a special address, Sunil Ambekar, Akhil Bhartiya Prachar Pramukh of RSS,…

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma (File photo) NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday warned that India would not remain silent and teach a “lesson” if politicians in Bangladesh continued to make remarks about India’s northeastern region.His comments came a day after Hasnat Abdullah, a senior leader of the newly formed National…

Image created with help of AI Driving the newsThe Donald Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) doesn’t just chart a course-it redraws the map. Released quietly at night, the 29-page document abandons decades of bipartisan foreign-policy orthodoxy in favor of a singular, transactional view of global power-and puts India at the crossroads.In this Trumpian…

PM Modi arrives in Ethiopia ((ANI image) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday landed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, beginning his two-day State visit at the invitation of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali. This marks PM Modi’s first visit to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.The visit follows the conclusion of the first…