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NEW DELHI: In a major boost for electronics manufacturing, the Centre has cleared 22 new proposals – including from Samsung, Foxconn, Tata Electronics and Dixon – for component manufacturing entailing investments of nearly Rs 42,000 crore.The investments under the Electronics Components Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) are projected to result in domestic production of Rs 2.6 lakh…

Indore: A person shows a sample of the drinking water that is being collected following a diarrhoea outbreak caused by contaminated water, at Bhagirathpura area, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. INDORE: Deaths in the Indore water contamination tragedy, which rose to 10 Friday, could have been avoided had red flags raised by a BJP corporator two…

NAGPUR: A 12-year-old boy was allegedly chained and locked by his daily-wager parents in Nagpur for several hours a day over two months amid claims that he was an inveterate cellphone thief.The school dropout was finally rescued Friday following a tip-off by teams from Maharashtra govt’s women and child development dept and the police. He…

Baruipur: TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee introduces three people, claiming that they were reported dead in the SIR draft rolls, during a public rally ahead of the West Bengal Assembly election. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav) BARUIPUR: “I will make three ghosts walk,” said Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee as he ushered in…

An 18-year-old from Mint Hill, North Carolina, is accused of plotting a deadly New Year’s Eve attack in support of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, before FBI agents moved in to stop him. The suspect was identified as Christian Sturdivant, who planned to stab civilians at public locations using knives, firearms and hammers,…

(Screengrabs taken from X) A Buddha Air aircraft overshot the runway while landing at Nepal’s Bhadrapur Airport on Friday night, but all passengers and crew escaped without injury, officials told PTI.Flight 901, carrying 51 passengers and four crew members, had departed Kathmandu at 8:23 pm and was attempting to land at Bhadrapur at around 9:08…

File photo: MP CM Mohan Yadav (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav on Friday announced strict action against senior civic officials over the contaminated drinking water incident in Indore’s Bhagirathpura area, saying negligence would not be tolerated.In a post on X late Friday, the chief minister said Rohit Sisonia, additional…

Shubman Gill and Erling Haaland A photo of India men’s ODI and Test cricket team captain Shubman Gill with footballer Erling Haaland has gone viral on social media, which has become a point of excitement among fans of both sports. They exchanged jerseys and shoes in a never-seen-before crossover moment between cricket and football. Why…

GHAZIABAD: The latest flashpoint in a bitter family feud was the decision of former Indian Air Force officer Yogesh Kumar to sell his house. “Kumar had asked both his sons to vacate the house,” said Loni ACP Siddharth Gautam, setting off a chain of events that ended in his murder the day after Christmas.Police have…

Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address was notable not for its length or flourish, but for how explicitly it challenged the governing assumptions New York has lived with for years. Instead of emphasising constraints, he foregrounded ambition. Instead of defending incrementalism, he framed it as failure. And instead of presenting affordability as an unfortunate by-product of global…