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Parul steals the show with burst of speed at the death

A brilliant late dash helps her win 5000m gold, hardly 24 hours after winning silver in 3000m steeplechase

Shooting at upmarket Thai mall kills at least 2, accused arrested

A 14-year-old boy was arrested on Tuesday after a shooting at a packed Bangkok mall that left two people dead and five wounded, and sent hundreds of panicked shoppers running in terror into the streets.

NY attorney general presses case against Trump in civil trial

Former US president Donald Trump has denounced the case as a 'sham' intended to torpedo his bid to recapture the White House next year

Five months on, peace eludes ethnic violence-hit Manipur

For five whole months, as Manipur waits on an elusive peace, in a village in the tribal Churachandpur, a mother still waits for justice, a police investigation, or even her slain son's body. 63 kilometres, and an intractable ethnic chasm away, in the capital Imphal, a wife waits for any information on her missing husband and his friend, not even counted among the dead, because their bodies have never been found.

Mountain radars to boost China vigil, says IAF chief

The Indian Air Force will boost its capabilities with locally made military hardware including mountain radars for the disputed frontier with China to look deep inside the neighbour's territory, long range surface-to-air missile systems, new fighter jets, upgraded combat planes, light combat helicopters, tactical ballistic missiles, trainer aircraft and close-in weapon systems, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari said on Tuesday.

Scheduled Castes panel to submit caste survey report: Karnataka CM

Two senior Congress leaders, including former Union minister M Veerappa Moily, on Tuesday mounted pressure on the party-led Karnataka government to make public the findings of the state's caste survey conducted during the previous tenure of Siddaramaiah as chief minister.

TMC leaders detained on second day of stir in Capital

TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and several other party leaders were detained on Tuesday night after they held a dharna at the Union rural development ministry's office in the capital, demanding a meeting with the minister.

KCR wanted to join NDA but I rejected move: Modi

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in December 2020 had requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to admit his party into the National Democratic Alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, Modi said on Tuesday -- a claim the state's ruling party rejected. Telangana will go to the polls later this year.

Excise case: Court allows two accused to turn approvers

A Delhi court on Tuesday allowed Raghav Magunta and Dinesh Arora to become approvers for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in its money laundering probe related to alleged irregularities in the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy 2020-21.

Nuh violence: MLA gets bail in 2 cases

Congress leader and Ferozepur Jhirka legislator Mamman Khan, arrested on September 14 for his alleged role in inciting the July 31 communal violence that broke out in Nuh and spread to other parts of Haryana, was on Tuesday granted bail in two cases connected to the violence, police officers said.

Mukherjee Nagar PGs in violation of bylaws: MCD

At least 100 paying guest (PG) accommodations in north Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar area are operating in violation of building by-law regulations, a survey by the building department of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has found.

Stay on firing of assembly staff vacated

THE HC VACATED THE INTERIM ORDER SAYING THE TOP COURT HAD ALREADY DECLINED IN JULY TO STAY THE TERMINATION OF DARC FELLOWS

Mercury below 20°C, first time this season

Cold northwesterly winds and clear skies helped push Delhi's minimum temperature below 20 degrees Celsius (°C) for the first time this season, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

Can Brand Chopra break the mould?

{WEAVING HIS MAGIC} ONE OF INDIA'S BIGGEST SPORTING FACES

News portal founder arrested after raids

The Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested the founder and the head of the human resources department of online portal NewsClick after sweeping raids across five cities over allegations of irregularities in the website's cashbooks and foreign funding.

{MAJOR DAMAGE AVERTED} 6.2 quake hits Nepal, tremors felt in Delhi

A 6.2 magnitude (M) earthquake struck Nepal while its tremors were felt across north India, including Delhi and the National Capital Region, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday at 2.51pm.

India directs Canada to cut diplomatic presence

India has asked Canada to withdraw several dozen diplomats from its missions in the country, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday amid the diplomatic row over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegation linking Indian agents to the killing of Khalistani leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Caste survey will help us work for all: Nitish amid reservation clamour at all-party meet

Data collected in Bihar's landmark caste survey will help the state government work for the upliftment of all sections, chief minister Nitish Kumar told an all-party meeting on Tuesday, even as members of the state's ruling coalition pushed for higher reservations to socially and economically backward communities and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) flagged flaws with the exercise.

Linking quota, population a ploy to divide India, says PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday accused the Congress of trying to divide society through its call of apportioning resources proportional to the demographic weight of communities, and asked if it was advocating for curtailing the rights of minorities, marking his first response to Bihar's landmark caste survey that has the potential to upend heartland politics and trigger a churn in key caste groups.

Aarathy takes a crash course to skating medal

Aarathy Kasturi Raj can't remember the number of times she has crashed and hurt herself in the skating rink. In May, she needed multiple stitches on the forehead after a fall in training. A month later, she escaped injury during the trials. All those mishaps were only minor hurdles on the way to win an Asian Games medal.

Colleges aim to boost microchip tech talent pool

In a move aimed at nurturing a skilled workforce for semiconductor testing and manufacturing, around 300 engineering colleges in India have introduced chip and circuitry engineering programmes with a particular emphasis on very large-scale integration (VLSI).

AI weighs hub in South, to augment ops in Mumbai

Air India Ltd is planning its second hub in the country at an airport in South India as it works to strengthen international and domestic operations and maximize network utilization, two executives aware of the plans said. Currently, the airline's only hub in India is in New Delhi.

Biden tells US Congress to 'stop playing games' over Ukraine aid

President Joe Biden said on Sunday that American aid to Ukraine will keep flowing for now as he sought to reassure allies of continued US financial support for the war effort. But time is running out, the president said in a warning to Congress.

Trump accused of reaping over $1bn from fraud as trial begins

Donald Trump is accused by New York attorney general Letitia James of inflating his assets and his own net worth from 2011 to 2021

TMC, BJP lock horns over funds for schemes

The Trinamool Congress began a two-day agitation in New Delhi led by party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday over alleged delay in the release in funds for the centrally sponsored rural jobs guarantee and state housing schemes, even as police imposed curfew in Rajghat, where TMC leaders had gone to pay respects to Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary.

Shutdown in Manipur distt brings normal life to a halt

The tribal-dominated Churachandpur district came to a standstill on Monday, a day after several Kuki organisations called for an indefinite shutdown to protest against the arrest of five people from the area by central agencies in separate cases, people aware of the matter said.

Odisha CM targets BJP, Cong in '24 LS poll prep

The sole job of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress in Odisha is to \"mislead people\" ahead of every election, chief minister Naveen Patnaik said on Monday, as he kick-started the Biju Janata Dal (BJD)'s preparations for the state legislative and Lok Sabha polls next year.

Caste data may set off political churn in Bihar: Experts

Ninety-two years after they were last enumerated, the Bihar government on Monday announced the results of a caste survey carried out by the state government over four months earlier this year, and in the process, cemented the political battlelines around caste, ahead of the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the 2025 assembly elections in Bihar.

New strand to India's identity politics

Bihar has opened up Indian politics again with its caste survey. How it plays out will show how Indian society has changed, or not changed, in the past three decades

Ggm may shift its Metro depot

The Haryana Mass Rapid Transport Corporation Limited (HMRTC) has floated a proposal to shift the depot of the upcoming Gurugram Metro from the existing location earmarked for the facility in Sector 101 near Basai, to Sector 33 near Subash Chowk, officials aware of the matter said on Monday.