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NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday (local time) called out the West for not backing New Delhi on terror, and reiterated that the ceasefire between India and Pakistan was negotiated between the DGMOs of the two countries. At the press conference in Washington DC, Jaishankar said there are often countries that do…

NEW DELHI: During the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Washington, S Jaishankar, external affairs minister, highlighted that the South China Sea remained an “issue of great concern” for all four member nations.The four nations – the United States, India, Australia, and Japan – expressed their unified stance on maintaining peace and preventing conflict in the…

Supreme Court of India (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Is there a ‘Sabak’ (lesson) in the film ‘Kahani-2’ for producer-director Sanjay Ghosh? The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to adjudicate Ghosh’s petition against criminal proceedings initiated against him in a Hazaribagh court by one Umesh Prasad Mehta, who accused Ghosh of lifting from his literary…

Can human thought — unaided by muscle or speech — be used to control machines? That’s the bold question the Ax-4 crew, including Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, are probing at the International Space Station (ISS).Wearing a specialised headset that tracks blood flow in the brain, the astronauts participated in “PhotonGrav”, a European Space Agency (ESA)…

NEW DELHI: As foreign minister S Jaishankar held a bilateral meeting with US defence secretary Pete Hegseth, the latter expressed hope that the US can complete several major pending defence sales to India and expand shared defence industrial cooperation. Noting mutual concern about the danger of aggression in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a US…

PUNE: Passengers on board a Goa-to-Pune SpiceJet flight (SG-1080) had a scare on Tuesday evening when a window panel was found dislodged while the plane was midair.The airline played down the incident, saying the window part that had come off was “a non-structural trim component, fitted onto the window for the purpose of shade”.But a…

Another victim of Pakistani drone attack during Op Sindoor died Tuesday night after battling for life for nearly two months. Lakhwinder Singh, 65, from Khai Pheme Ke village in Punjab’s Ferozepur, had suffered severe burns and was brought to a Ludhiana hospital (140km away) but couldn’t be saved. His wife Sukhwinder Kaur, 60, had died…

NEW DELHI: PM Modi arrived in Accra for a state visit to Ghana and, in a special gesture, he was received at the airport by Ghana President John Dramani Mahama. The govt said in a statement that the first such visit in the past three decades to Ghana would further deepen the partnership between India…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday said insurance companies are not bound to pay compensation to the kin of drivers who die due to their own mistake during daredevil stunts or on account of rash and negligent driving, in an extreme message to speed addicts and those who seek to hog eyeballs by performing stunts,…

NEW DELHI: With the International Labour Organisation acknowledging 64% social security coverage in the country, govt is going to aggressively pitch for social security agreements with other countries, including those with which trade deals are being discussed, to help Indian techies and others working overseas avoid making contributions abroad without getting the money back.Social security…