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New Delhi: A record medals tally along with matching the largest ever gold medal haul, success in little known sports and disappointments in wrestling, boxing and kabaddi were the hallmarks of India’s performance at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta. India ended up at the eighth spot with 15 gold, 24 silver 30 bronze for a…

Islamabad: Pakistan does not agree with the US view that India has a role to play in bringing peace to Afghanistan, Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Chaudhry has said. Saying both Prime Minister Imran Khan and Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa were on the same page on internal and external security issues, the Minister said…

New Delhi: Acclaimed Punjabi poet-writer Amrita Pritam gave all her life to literature but when her partner and famous painter Imroz — the muse of many of her poems — wrote about Pritam during her last years, she had stopped both reading and writing. “She was such a brilliant litterateur all her life. However, she seemed…

New Delhi: With more and more enterprises in India aiming for digital transformation amid a growing economy, the country faces imminent cyber threats from rogue nation-state actors and a collective approach is the need of the hour, a top official from US-based Internet Society (ISOC) has stressed. Founded in 1992 by people involved with the Internet…

New Delhi: Describing the arrest of a woman research scholar for raising slogans against the Tamil Nadu BJP President as an “assault” on the Constitution and “Idea of India”, the Congress on Tuesday said there was an “undeclared Emergency” in the country and fascism playing out in full glory. Taking on the BJP over the arrest…

नई दिल्ली: पश्चिम बंगाल के कोलकाता में मंगलवार को माझेरहाट पुल का एक हिस्सा गिर गया जिसमें 1 की मौत हो गई जबकि कई लोगों के दबे होने की आशंका है।  दुर्घटना के समय पुल से एक मिनी बस समेत कई वाहन गुजर रहे थे, जो पुल का हिस्सा टूटते ही उसके नीचे रेलवे ट्रैक…

नई दिल्ली: राफेल सौदे को लेकर एक तरफ  जहां कांग्रेस सरकार पर हमलावर है, वहीं मोदी सरकार इन सब से परे एक और डील करने जा रही है। सरकार अब 1.4 लाख करोड़ रुपए के 114 नए लड़ाकू विमान खरीदने की तैयारी कर रही है। यह दुनिया का सबसे बड़ा रक्षा सौदा होगा। सूत्रों के…

नई दिल्ली: दलित मोदी सरकार के निशाने पर शुरू से रहे हैं और यही कारण है कि मौजूदा सरकार के कार्यकाल में दलितों पर हिंसा की घटनाएं बढ़ी हैं। यह कहना है दलित कार्यकर्ता और गुजरात के वडगाम से निर्दलीय विधायक जिग्नेश मेवाणी का।  यहां आयोजित ‘यूथ की आवाज’ कार्यक्रम से इतर जिग्नेश ने आईएएनएस के…

Bengaluru: Karnataka’s ruling coalition partner the Congress won majority of the seats across 10 of 22 districts during vote count for 105 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) on Monday, the State Election Commission (SEC) said. In the civic body polls held on August 31, the Congress has won 982 seats out of the total 2,662 seats, with…

नई दिल्ली: देश में जीवनदायिनी कही जाने वाली 2,071 किलोमीटर के क्षेत्र में बहने वाली गंगा नदी दुनिया की सबसे अधिक संकटग्रस्त नदियों में भी शुमार है। वर्ल्ड वाइड फंड (डब्ल्यूडब्ल्यूएफ) की 2007 की एक रपट के अनुसार दुनिया की 10 सर्वाधिक संकटग्रस्त नदियों में गंगा का नाम शामिल है। आज गंगा की हालत देश की…

New Delhi:  The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will not ally with the Congress in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Gopal Rai, a cabinet minister in the Delhi government, has said, adding that being a part of a post-poll Grand Alliance will depend on the manner in which the electorate votes. “No,” the Delhi State Convenor of…

Mumbai: Ace Indian player Sania Mirza says she wants to give back to the world through tennis. She has been honoured by Sony YAY! as part of their flagship Teachers’ Day initiative ‘Heroes Behind The Heroes’. The initiative honours and recognises the hard work put in by the teachers of global icons from diverse fields. “So…

मुख्य न्यायाधीश दीपक मिश्रा ने शनिवार को कहा कि न्यायिक व्यवस्था में बुनियादी ढांचे की कमी को न्याय प्रशासन पर गहरा निशान छोड़ने से पहले ही जल्द से जल्द दूर किया जाना चाहिए और वित्तीय बाधाओं को बहाना के रूप में इस्तेमाल नहीं किया जाना चाहिए। सुप्रीम कोर्ट एडवोकेट्स ऑन रिकॉर्ड एसोसिएशन (एससीएओआरए) द्वारा आयोजित…

New Delhi: When Roshan Lal, a 40-year-old rickshawpuller, got his son Rakesh admitted to a government school in Delhi, all he wanted for him was to get a decent education. Since he could not afford to pay for a private school, all that was on his mind was that “government school mein kuch toh seekh hi…

London: A herbal ingredient used in traditional Chinese medicines may help you to reduce your body weight, a new study has found. The scientists were able to show that the herbal active substance, celastrol — used in Chinese medicines — leads to a significant weight loss and an improvement of diabetes in obese mice, Xinhua news…