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Kerala minister warns schools against Christmas curbs

ANI file photo THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala education minister V Sivankutty flagged on Sunday reports of some private schools in the state blocking Christmas celebrations on campus, warning that the LDF govt won’t tolerate ̶ Read More

Mahayuti sweeps Phase 1 of Maharashtra local body polls

Image: IANS PUNE/NAGPUR: BJP-led Mahayuti delivered a sweeping verdict after two rounds of the first phase of Maharashtra’s civic elections, winning presidents’ posts in nearly 207 of 288 municipal councils and nagar pan Read More

India shuts Chittagong visa operations as tensions rise

Image: IANS NEW DELHI: India hit out at Bangladesh and suspended visa operations at its mission in Chittagong on Sunday, amid a wave of protests there with an anti-India hue sparked by the death of radical activist Sharif Osman Hadi Read More

‘The trauma never goes… but I won’t break’: Survivor of 2016 NH gang rape

file photo BULANDSHAHR: Ahead of sentencing in the brutal gang rape of a woman and her daughter at gunpoint on NH-91 in UP in 2016 which shocked the nation, one of the survivors – then a 14-year-old schoolgirl and now a 23-yea Read More

IAF airlifts tigress from Pench to Ramgarh Vishdhari

BHOPAL: A three-year-old tigress was airlifted from Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh to Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan on an IAF helicopter on Sunday, marking a key step in a renewed inter-state tiger translocation Read More

Looking at RSS through BJP lens a big mistake: Mohan Bhagwat

KOLKATA: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said seeing the Sangh through the lens of BJP would be a “big mistake”. Read More

Man locks police escort in dhaba, flees; held later

A man accused of cheating Rs 1. Read More

Intense cold in north India, relief unlikely in next 48 hours

NEW DELHI/KULLU: A sharp cold wave tightened its grip across north India on Sunday, with snowfall in the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, and northeastern Himachal Pradesh, while scattered rain and dense fog pushed down te Read More

Give Rajya Sabha seat or will quit NDA, says Manjhi

PTI file photo PATNA: Union minister and HAM (Secular) founder Jitan Ram Manjhi Sunday threatened to quit the Union Cabinet and the NDA if a Rajya Sabha seat was not allotted to his party, reports Manoj Chaurasia. Read More

Compensation denial leads to DM house seizure

A Moradabad land acquisition court ordered the attachment of Bijnor district magistrate’s official residence and summoned the officer to appear in person on Jan 9, 2026, after compensation awarded to a landowner in 2020 was not Read More

No ‘sovereign immunity’ for negligent Army drivers: HC

CHANDIGARH: In an order having wide-reaching implications for road safety and military accountability, Punjab and Haryana high court has held that the Union of India cannot claim “sovereign immunity” in cases of negligent Read More

India says no case of rice dumping in the US, cites high basmati prices

Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal on Monday said that India mainly exports expensive basmati rice to the US, and there is no case for dumping of the commodity in the American market. Read More