NEW DELHI: The 11-member Brics comprising key emerging economies condemned in “the strongest terms” Pahalgam terrorist attack, seeking concerted action against UN-designated terrorists and terrorist entities, and unambiguously backed a comprehensive reform of UN Security Council (UNSC), in two significant takeaways for India from Rio Summit.Among other highlights was India joining Brics in condemning attacks…
PATNA: Police probing the murder of prominent businessman Gopal Khemka here have identified the shooter and tracked his escape route, inspector general of police (IGP) Jitendra Rana said on Sunday. He said all possible angles were being investigated, including possible links to an inmate at Beur jail.“The involvement of a notorious gangster in the killing…
NEW DELHI: The official X account of international news agency Reuters was briefly withheld in India on Sunday, triggering speculation over possible government action. The account was restored later the same day after the central government clarified that it had not requested any such move.According to officials, the ministry of electronics and information technology reached…
SRINAGAR: A quiet revolution is taking place in mental health care in Jammu & Kashmir. For many battling depression and dark thoughts, a single phone call is making all the difference.The UT has emerged as India’s leading performer in responding to mental health distress calls. Driving this transformation is Tele MANAS, a Centre-backed digital mental…
JAMMU: Amid chants of “Bam Bam Bhole,” the fifth and largest batch of 7,208 pilgrims undertaking the Shri Amarnath Yatra 2025 departed from Jammu’s Bhagwati Nagar base camp early Sunday. The journey, however, was marred by a minor mishap when a bus from Madhya Pradesh, part of the yatra convoy, suffered a brake failure and…
NEW DELHI: Leaders of the Brics nations on Sunday issued a strong condemnation of the April 22 terrorist attack in J&K’s Pahalgam, which left 26 people dead. In a joint declaration following the summit in Rio de Janeiro, the leaders labelled the attack “criminal and unjustifiable” and called for united global action to root out…
A senior official from the United States met the 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamshala on the occasion of his 90th birthday, the US Embassy said on Sunday.Bethany Poulos Morrison, a deputy assistant secretary in the US department of state’s bureau of south and central Asian affairs (SCA), visited the Tibetan spiritual leader as part of…
NEW DELHI: Social media platform X restored access to international news agency Reuters’ official account in India on Sunday after government officials stepped in. The account became unavailable for Indian users on Saturday and it was showing the message “withheld in India in response to a legal demand.” The same message had also appeared on…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address at the 17th Brics Summit in Rio de Janeiro, called for decisive global action against terrorism and urgent reforms in outdated international institutions. Delivering a sharp critique of the global system’s failure to respond to 21st-century challenges, he stressed that the Global South has been repeatedly…
NEW DELHI: BJP MP Kangana Ranaut has come under fire from the Congress for what the party called an “insensitive” response during her visit to flood-affected areas in her Mandi constituency in Himachal Pradesh. The backlash was sparked by a video shared by the Congress in which Ranaut, while commenting on disaster relief, said, “Whether…