Spread the love       Tourism in India New Delhi: Most urban travellers opt for hotels, guesthouses or house rentals for their stay for an overnight domestic trip, while dharamshalas remain the top place of stay for those from rural India.A part of the reason may have to do with the fact that over three-fourths of Indians who travelled in the past...

Spread the love       Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif speaks at UNGA NEW DELHI: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday used the 81st United Nations General Assembly to condemn Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and warn against any threat to the safety and sanctity of Mecca.He also defended Pakistan’s new defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Türkiye, while highlighting Islamabad’s diplomatic...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: In a first for the road sector, govt has used waste plastic as a wet mix with bitumen to lay a bituminous highway stretch, a move that is likely to reduce imports of the key construction material while addressing the growing problem of plastic waste.On Thursday, a pilot test section was laid on the main...

Spread the love       JK CM Omar Abdullah SRINAGAR: Chief minister Omar Abdullah brought Friday an assembly resolution seeking restoration of full statehood for J&K, but an autonomy reference ignited a BJP backlash, with its members ripping up copies amid anti-national chants directed at the governing National Conference (NC).The contentious reference came as the document cited an autonomy resolution passed by...

Spread the love       The two leaders held a 90-minute closed-door meeting on Thursday. According to the Chinese government’s readout, they discussed the Middle East, Ukraine and the Korean Peninsula. The White House did not release details of those talks. US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to meet twice more this year, with the two leaders...

Spread the love       What began as a simple goal for a six-year-old to raise $10 for charity has now come to an end, leaving the local community with tens of thousands of dollars in charitable support. Grace Hendrian and her younger sister, June, have finished the final season of their “Lemon-Aid Stand for Good” in Quincy, Illinois. What started as...

Spread the love       India hold World Cup-bound Panama to 1-1 draw in major test for Khalid Jamil’s side/ Image: X India had to surrender a first-half lead, but the Blue Tigers came away from Bengaluru with plenty to take from a 1-1 draw against Panama, a side ranked 94 places above them in the FIFA rankings and featuring several players...

Spread the love       TOI correspondent from Washington: A 48-hour state visit to the United States by China’s President Xi Jinping yielded no immediate major breakthroughs but confirmed the broad impression, in visuals and much as words, that Washington now accepts China as a peer in a new G-2 formulation.For all the talk of trade, artificial intelligence, Taiwan, Iran and strategic...

Spread the love       Hardik Pandya during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 match between India and USA at Wankhede Stadium on February 07, 2026 in Mumbai, India. (Photo/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Hardik Pandya‘s return to competitive cricket has been delayed again as the all-rounder is set to miss the three India A fixtures against Australia A in Puducherry starting...

Spread the love       After the bank failed to return their original property papers, the couple approached the Banking Ombudsman. (Image for representative purpose only) You take a home loan and you repay it in full, but the bank loses the property papers. What do you do and what are your rights?A Delhi-based couple faced precisely this situation. After the bank...