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Firefighters work at the site of a late-Monday airstrike at a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai) NEW DELHI: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Tuesday strongly condemned Pakistan’s strikes on a hospital in Kabul, describing them as a “massacre dressed as a military operation.”“This is a … Read more

NEW DELHI: As the world grapples with the Strait of Hormuz crisis, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday drew parallels with the 1956 Suez Canal crisis, highlighting how India’s then-UN envoy, VK Krishna Menon, played a central role in the diplomatic efforts to resolve it.Menon later served as India’s defence minister but resigned after the … Read more

NEW DELHI: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has imposed a penalty of Rs 1 crore each on seven medical colleges across the country for failing to disclose the stipend paid to MBBS interns and postgraduate medical residents despite repeated directions.The action follows non-compliance with an earlier directive requiring all medical institutions to publicly disclose stipend … Read more

NEW DELHI: Amid lobbying by car companies, govt may end up deferring the implementation of Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency norms (CAFE 3.0) beyond April 2027. The PM’s Office has held two meetings during the last three weeks and more deliberations on the issue are planned to work out a formula that is acceptable to industry … Read more

MUMBAI: A special court for MP/MLA cases that last month accepted the economic offences wing’s closure report in the Rs 25,000-crore Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam case involving the late Ajit Pawar , deputy CM Sunetra Pawar and their nephew NCP-SP MLA Rohit Pawar held in many instances that “no loss was caused to … Read more

NEW DELHI: Govt “categorically” rejected as motivated and biased the characterisation of India in the latest US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) report that alleged deterioration of religious freedom in India and sought its designation as a country of particular concern. The report had also called for sanctions on Research & Analysis Wing and … Read more

KOLLAM: A maritime trainee from Chandanathope in Kerala’s Kollam is stranded on an Iranian cargo vessel mid-sea off Sharjah coast for nearly a month. His family is worried that he is suffering. Akhimon M, 21, had joined Iran-based cargo vessel Queen Star and travelled to the country on April 14 last year. After completing training … Read more

ITANAGAR: Four people were killed and three others injured after a landslide triggered the collapse of a protection wall of a building at Niti Vihar in Arunachal Pradesh’s capital city at around 4pm on Monday, reports Joken Ete. Seven workers were buried under the debris after a wall of the building under construction collapsed, officials … Read more

Rajya Sabha elections Monday accentuated the opposition’s inability to hold its ranks, with absentee legislators costing the Grand Alliance a seat in Bihar, cross-voting delivering a bonus seat to BJP in Odisha and a dispute over ballot secrecy leaving the poll outcome in Haryana hanging. In Bihar, Mahagathbandhan’s lone candidate, RJD’s Amarendra Dhari Singh, lost … Read more

NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: A day after it substituted Bengal chief secretary and principal secretary (home) with its own choices, EC Monday replaced the DGP and Kolkata Police commissioner, among others. Hours after announcing the assembly poll schedule for Bengal along with those of three other states and a UT, the poll panel late Sunday night shunted … Read more