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…
Inside the System: A Veteran Secretary D Kishen Rao Speaks Out In the course of writing this long-running series over the last few months, I’ve interacted with a range of voices—from former state players to disgruntled selectors—trying to piece together how Hyderabad cricket, once a proud nursery of the sport, fell into its current state…
The greatest capital of a writer is his words and his freedom, not the pictures of his proximity to power. Presenting books to influential people on stage and publicising their pictures on social media may bring momentary recognition, but this diminishes the dignity of literature. A truly valuable book finds a place in the hearts…
The Central Information Commission (CIC) has pulled up the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) of the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali, for furnishing what it called an “evasive and misleading” reply to a Right to Information (RTI) application. In its order dated 27 June 2025, the CIC directed the CPIO to…
