New Delhi: Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is set to return to India on Sunday after his historic visit to the International Space Station (ISS) and is eager to share his experiences with friends and colleagues back home as ISRO eyes its maiden human spaceflight in 2027. Shukla, who has been in the US, training for the…
Ranchi: Jharkhand Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Speaker Rabindra Nath Mahato, Leader of Opposition Babulal Marandi, and ministers, MLAs, and political leaders on Saturday paid tributes to Education Minister Ramdas Soren, who died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Delhi. The mortal remains of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader, who died on Friday night,…
Alaska: President Donald Trump said he and Vladimir Putin didn’t reach a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine after meeting on Friday — despite Putin saying they had come to “an understanding” — as the two leaders offered scant details on what was discussed while heaping praise on each other. In brief remarks as…
Hyderabad: A major racket of commercial surrogacy and “illegal” human egg trading allegedly operated by a network of seven women and a man in “collusion” with several fertility centres in Hyderabad was busted here, Cyberabad police have said. Two agents—a woman (45) and her son (27), were arrested in connection with the racket, and notices…
Kistawar/Jammu: A coordinated rescue and relief operation continued for the third consecutive day on Saturday in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, where 60 people lost their lives and over 100 others were injured, officials said. Union Minister Jitendra Singh, accompanied by Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Nalin Prabhat,…
New Delhi: The BJP-led NDA has decided to give a final push in choosing a consensus candidate for Vice President nomination tomorrow at the specially convened Parliament Board meeting. It’s expected to announce the NDA nominee on Sunday. At a meeting held at the residence of BJP National President JP Nadda on Friday, senior BJP…
New Delhi: Six people, including three women, were killed and five others injured after the wall and the roof of two adjacent rooms of a dargah near Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi’s Nizamuddin collapsed on Friday, officials said. The incident happened at Dargah Sharif Patte Shah around 3:30 pm. The dargah shares its boundary walls with…
The much-hyped Alaska meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin — packaged as “3+3 talks” and billed as a possible turning point for the Russia–Ukraine war — ended not with a ceasefire handshake but with a business handshake. If you blinked, you missed the peace part entirely. Officially, the summit aimed…
Anchorage, Alaska: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not reach an agreement to resolve Moscow’s war in Ukraine after a nearly three-hour summit in Alaska, though he characterized the meeting as “very productive.” “There were many, many points that we agreed on,” Trump said at a…
From the ramparts of the Red Fort, on India’s 79th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered far more than a ceremonial address. This was no routine flag-hoisting ritual. It was a warning, a declaration, and a gauntlet thrown at those who threaten India and at those who presume to lecture it. Modi’s tone was…
