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New Delhi: The Central Government on Wednesday approved introduction of a bill to increase the number of judges in the Supreme Court from the present 30 to 33, excluding the Chief Justice. Union Minister Prakash...

Srinagar: A gunfight started on Wednesday between security forces and holed-up militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district, police said. Following specific information about presence of militants in Baderhama village of Zawoora area in Shopian,...

New Delhi: If you have always been fascinated by the idea of flying a fighter aircraft on a combat mission for the Indian Air Force (IAF), you can do it right from the comfort of...

New Delhi: Lower production of refinery products decelerated the output pace of India’s eight major industries in June to 0.2 per cent, official data showed on Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry...

Indore: Just two weeks before the Rajya Sabha finally passed the Bill criminalising Triple Talaq, former Bhojpuri and Hindi film actor Alina Shaikh’s husband Muddasir Baig discovered a new method to dissolve a marriage. She...

Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh governor Biswabhusan Harichandan paid anofficial visit to the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) here Wednesday. On his maiden visit to the ENC, the governor was received by Vice Admiral Atul Kumar Jain,Flag Officer...

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday cleared the bill to amend 30-year old motor vehicle law to improve road safety, raise penalties for traffic violations, curb RTO (Regional Transport Office) corruption and other measures...

Madrid: Parents, please take note. Researchers have demonstrated an association between regular physical activity during childhood and higher lung function in adolescent girls compared to boys. The study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology,...

New Delhi: Hours before the Indian team left for the US to play two T20 internationals against the West Indies, skipper Virat Kohli had rubbished rumours of any rift in the dressing room. In fact,...

Jerusalem: Israeli and US researchers discovered a 1,500-year-old church of the Byzantine-era on the northern shore of Israel’s Sea of Galilee lake, as reported Wednesday by the Kinneret Academic College (KAC). The researchers, Mordechai Aviam,...

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved subsidy rates for P&K (phosphatic and potassic) fertilizers for the year 2019-20, an official release said. The subsidy rates for nitrogen will be Rs...

Paris: Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are among 10 nominees announced by FIFA on Wednesday in the run for the Best FIFA Men’s Player award. Premier League side Liverpool, crowned in UEFA Champion League last...

New Delhi: It is not just respiratory symptoms or a feeling of tiredness that asthma sufferers have to face daily, many of them even have to deal with shame and a sense of guilt using...

San Francisco: Facebook is launching its own TV streaming service this fall and has reportedly approached Netflix, Disney, Hulu, HBO and other media companies for a new TV chat device for making video calls from...

Amritsar: In a first-of-its-kind since India’s partition, a team of over 500 Sikh pilgrims will enter India from Pakistan via road on Thursday after paying obeisance at the historic Nankana Sahib as part of the...

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday gave his assent to the Triple Talaq Bill, making the practice of giving instant triple talaq orally a criminal offence with provisions of a jail term of...

San Francisco: The 2019 line-up of iPhones are expected to come with support for Apple Pencil — a wireless stylus pen from Apple, a new analyst note from Citi Analysts suggests. Rumours about Apple Pencil...

New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, the national academy of letters, has opened entries for Yuva Puraskar 2020 for publishers and young Indian authors in all 24 languages it recognises. The Akademi is inviting books from applicants...

New York: Kashyap “Kash” Patel, an Indian-American lawyer who is a fierce loyalist of US President Donald Trump, has been promoted as senior director of counter-terrorism of the White House-based National Security Council (NSC), according...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will consider transfer of the trial in Unnao rape case to Delhi. Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi asked the CBI officer supervising the cases connected with Unnao...