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Delta shifts India HQ to B'luru from Gurugram, opens R&D centre in city

TAIWAN-based Delta has moved its India headquarters from Gurugram to Bengaluru, and also inaugurated a new Global Research and Development (R&D) centre in the city on Monday.

UK PM charts plan to reduce knife crimes on the streets

BRITISH Prime Minister Keir Starmer convened a coalition to stop young people from falling into knife crime on Monday, joined by actor and anti-knife crime campaigner Idris Elba.

US Congress to take bills to cut China's grip in EV, biotech up

HOW to curb and counter China's influence and power - through its biotech companies, drones and electric vehicles- will dominate the US House's first week back from summer break, with lawmakers intending to take up a series of measures targeting Beijing.

1,000s protest Mexican plan on election of judges

CITY THOUSANDS of Mexicans, mainly court employees and law students, protested in the capital on Sunday against a controversial judicial reform proposal that would see judges elected by popular vote.

Israeli strikes on Syria kill 16, wound 36

SYRIAN state media said on Monday that overnight Israeli strikes killed 16 people in central Hama province, while a war monitor reported a higher death toll in the \"intense\" raids on military sites.

Google faces new antitrust trial that can break it up

ONE month after a judge declared Google's search engine an illegal monopoly, the tech giant faces another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company, this time over its advertising technology.

Cluster bombs killed over 1,000 in Ukraine

Pose a lasting threat since many fail to explode on impact, acting as landmines that can go off years later: Monitor

Kamala's skills against Trump under test in first match-up today

FROM her earliest campaigns in California to her serving as President Joe Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris has honed an aggressive but calibrated approach to debates.

IIT-G student found dead in hostel room

A student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati was found dead inside his hostel room on Monday morning.

22-ft-tall idol falls on damaged road in Gwalior

POTHOLED road allegedly triggered the fall of a 22 ft tall Lord Ganesh idol in the heart of Gwalior city of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday night.

'Return to festivities,' says Mamata

AMID raging protests over the rape and murder of a doctor at the RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged people to \"return to festivities\" as Durga Puja is round the corner.

Manipur students take to the streets, throw stones outside Guy's residence

PROTESTORS pelted stones outside the heavily-guarded Raj Bhawan in Manipur even as the police recovered the body of an ex-serviceman on Monday.

27 arrested for pelting stones at pandal in Surat

IN a swift response, Surat police have arrested 27 individuals allegedly involved in stone-pelting at a Ganesh Pandal in the Sayedpura area on Sunday night.

Junior doctors say won't join work as demands not met

AFTER the Supreme Court directed agitating junior doctors to join duty by 5 pm on Tuesday, the doctors working in staterun medical colleges said they would continue their ceasework as justice still eludes them even a month after the rape and murder of their colleague at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.

Can jailed MP Er Rashid's party spring surprise in Assembly elections in J&K?

AFTER his big win in the Lok Sabha polls, can jailed MP Er Rashid's Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) repeat its feat in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir election the first poll post abrogation of Article 370.

Shah steps in to check Mahayuti's Maha crisis, calls for united show

AMID mounting tension over seat-sharing in the BJP-led Mahayuti in poll-bound Maharashtra, senior BJP leader Amit Shah on Monday held a closed-door meeting with the alliance partners, emphasising the crucial role of unity for its success in the assembly polls and cautioning them against airing their internal differences in public.

'Row over IC 814 series unnecessary'

FORMER Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief -A S Dulat tells Preetha Nair about the recent controversy over Netflix series 'IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack' and why he thinks it is not a diplomatic failure of the then Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.

India, UAE sign energy and nuclear pacts

PM Modi, Crown Prince acknowledge success of economic partnership agreement and Bilateral Investment Treaty

Accused in custody can seek bail in another case: SC

THE Supreme Court on Monday held that an accused in custody for one case is entitled to seek santicipatory bail in another matter, provided they have not been arrested by any agency or police in connection with the latter.

IAF to get 240 Sukhoi aircraft engines from HAL

THE Defence Ministry on Monday signed a ₹26,000 crore contract with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for 240 AL-31FP aero engines for Sukhoi (Su)-30MKI aircraft.

Naval might: 2 anti-submarine warfare craft launched at Cochin Shipyard

IN a move to upgrade to its antisubmarine warfare capability, the Indian navy on Monday launched the fourth and fifth ships of the 8 Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft project.

STRATEGIC PATIENCE: A CURRENCY FOR TODAY'S GEOPOLITICS

Forbearance and maturity are needed at a time when there is little clarity in many geopolitical arenas. Some of the fog will lift after the US election

At GCC, Jaishankar says Gaza situation a concern, India backs 2-state solution

EXTERNAL Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, while addressing the first India-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meeting of Foreign Ministers in Riyadh on Monday, said that the current situation in Gaza was his country's foremost concern.

T'puram water crisis puts LDF in tight spot

PRESSURE has been mounting on the state government to take action against those erring officials of the Kerala Water Authority which saw the drinking water taps going dry in 46 Corporation wards for almost five days.

Tulu language added to Unicode standard version

TULU, which is widely spoken in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kasaragod districts, has been added to the Unicode, a text encoding standard, by the Unicode Consortium.

Flood-like situation in Malkangiri and Koraput

TORRENTIAL rains triggered by the deep depression left Malkangiri district grappling with a flood-like situation as large parts of the district remained cut off from both Odisha and Andhra Pradesh ends on Monday.

Pradhan, Stalin trade barbs on funds

TN CM alleges Centre denying funds to states not implementing National Education Policy

DKS leaves for US on private trip, says will not meet Harris, Obama

DEPUTY Chief Minister and KPCC president D K Shivakumar on Sunday left for the USA on a week-long trip.

Heavy rainfall causes damage to infra in north coastal districts of Andhra

INCESSANT rainfall disrupted normal life in the districts of north coastal Andhra Pradesh, particularly in Alluri Sitarama Raju district.

NIA chargesheet against 4 in Rameshwaram cafe blast case

THE National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday charge-sheeted four accused in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast case.