Aizawl: Preparations are underway for the biometric enrollment of over 32,000 Myanmar refugees currently sheltered in Mizoram, a senior official said on Wednesday. State Additional Home Secretary Andrew H. Vanlaldika said the collection of biometric and demographic data of the refugees will be carried out across all eleven districts of the state within this month….
Chikkaballapura (Karnataka): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday asserted that he will be in office for a full five-year term. “Yes, I will be. Why do you have the doubt?” the veteran leader said in response to a question by reporters about whether he will be the CM for five years. There has been speculation…
Sangareddy (Telangana): The removal of debris at Sigachi Industries’ pharma plant here that suffered an explosion two days ago was almost over, and the number of fatalities from the blast remains at 36, a top district police official said on Wednesday. Further, the unit does not have a No Objection Certificate (NoC) from the Fire…
Washington: The Quad grouping has called for bringing the perpetrators, organisers, and financiers of the Pahalgam terror attack to justice without any delay and urged UN member nations to extend cooperation for it. The foreign ministers of the four-nation grouping condemned the April 22 attack in the strongest terms that claimed the lives of 26…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left on a five-nation tour spanning over eight days, from July 2 to 9. This is perhaps the longest diplomatic visit in the last 10 years. As per the Ministry of External Affairs, the tour will begin in Ghana. From Ghana, the prime minister will head to the…
Washington: The Republican-led US Senate on Tuesday approved President Donald Trump’s mammoth domestic policy bill dubbed the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’ by the narrowest of margins, despite misgivings over delivering deep welfare cuts and another $3 trillion in national debt. Republican leaders had struggled to corral support during a record 24-hour “vote-a-rama” amendment session on…
Jammu: The eyes of the world are on this Amarnath Yatra and no threats can deter the spirit of people undertaking the pilgrimage to the cave shrine in the South Kashmir Himalayas, said Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday. Attending the ‘Tawi Aarti’ at the Tawi Riverfront in Jammu, he asserted that…
New York: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio during which they discussed bilateral partnership and shared perspectives on regional and global developments. Jaishankar is visiting the US from June 30 to July 2 at the invitation of Rubio. “A pleasure meeting US @SecRubio this afternoon, on…
Kathmandu: At least 31 people died and 151 others injured in monsoon-related disasters in Nepal within a month since the onset of the rainy season on May 28, officials said on Tuesday. Between May 28 and June 30, the country experienced 682 incidents linked to the monsoon, including floods, landslides, lightning strikes, and windstorms, National…
New Delhi: The Union government on Tuesday for the first time allowed use of non-transport (private) motorcycles for passenger journeys through aggregators, subject to state government approval, providing long-awaited regulatory clarity for India’s shared mobility sector. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, in its ‘Motor Vehicles Aggregator Guidelines 2025’ said the new guidelines attempt…
