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The first such visit from India to Pakistan since the 2025 Pahalgam terrorist attack highlighted how SCO, which is dominated by China and Russia, has remained insulated from India-Pakistan tensions, unlike the more modest Saarc regional framework. NEW DELHI: India’s participation in the SCO meeting of national coordinators in Islamabad to firm up the calendar...

SC said cops could issue lakhs of e-challans, but what was being done to recover the fines was the question at hand. NEW DELHI: Many vehicle owners often ignore traffic fines for years, allowing unpaid challans to pile up and eventually land in courts. Supreme Court has now directed states and UTs to impound their...

Goans born before 1961 in former Portuguese territories, as well as their kids and grandchildren, can apply for a Portuguese passport based on a citizen card issued by the Portuguese authorities after verifying their birth/descent documents. NEW DELHI: The office of the Goa chief electoral officer on Thursday said 88 of the 97 voters in...

‘When we grant early hearing to one litigant who has the resources to approach the SC, we do injustice to millions of litigants who are waiting for a hearing on their petitions,’ the bench said. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday said a bus conductor’s right to access to justice is equal to that of...

Photo: Stephen King/ Instagram In December 2011, international bestselling author Stephen King and his wife, Tabitha, helped Maine families facing a difficult winter by donating $120,000 to a home-heating fundraiser organised through the author’s radio station. The campaign eventually raised $241,820, surpassing its original goal as residents confronted higher heating costs and reduced federal assistance....

The sister-in-law also submitted a written statement to support the man’s version. (Image for representative purpose only) An income tax raid is conducted and foreign currency is found, but it doesn’t belong to you – what happens then? A few months after demonetisation, the Income Tax Department searched a man’s property in Delhi.During the operation,...

Representative image In 1984, a $57 million gift from David and Lucile Packard helped turn a former cannery site on California’s Cannery Row into the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Four decades later, the institution is known not only for its kelp forest, jellyfish and deep-sea exhibits, but also for conservation work that reaches far beyond its...

Confirming that bids submitted under the request for proposal (RFP) stage are undergoing formal assessment, the defence secretary said, ‘We should be able to reach some conclusion in that procurement cycle before the end of this year.’ NEW DELHI: In good news for the Indian Air Force, defence secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh said on Thursday...

Archaeologists recovered 10,500-year-old worked wood from beneath Lake Arendsee in northern Germany. (Photo: State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology (LDA) Saxony-Anhalt) Archaeologists have recovered exceptionally well-preserved pieces of worked wood dating back around 10,500 years from beneath Lake Arendsee in northern Germany, potentially offering fresh evidence of wooden structures built by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.The discoveries...

Rajnath also commended Saksham, DAD’s project for digitising and integrating the defence accounting and payment ecosystem hosted on a secure dedicated data centre and operating on the DAD WAN network. NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh Thursday called for greater integration of financial systems of Army, Navy and Air Force and stressed maximum digitisation, automation...