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NEW DELHI: Initial probe into the recent sexual assault inside a private sleeper bus in Delhi has indicated that the vehicle was operating despite multiple violations and pending fines. The probe has extended to Bihar, where a team has gone to verify details.The bus, having a Bihar licence plate, was registered in Gopalganj. Delhi Police...

GUWAHATI: Manipur remained tense on Thursday following the killing of three church leaders in Kangpokpi district and a Chiru Naga civilian in Noney district the previous day, which triggered a wave of abductions and bandhs that paralysed life in the hill districts.Manipur Police said the three church leaders were killed in “unprovoked firing by unidentified...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-131100422,imgsize-1022777,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/article-59.jpg" alt="'An aggressor': Iran tells UAE to ‘accept responsibility’ as tensions flare at Brics meeting in New Delhi" title=" Iran delegation at Brics ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Iran delegation at Brics Iran lashed out at the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, accusing Abu Dhabi of direct involvement in military operations against Tehran during a tense...

NEW DELHI: After 10 days of intense consultations, lobbying and internal churning, Congress on Thursday finally ended suspense over Kerala’s chief ministerial face by picking VD Satheesan for the top post.Satheesan emerged victorious in a closely watched leadership battle against senior leaders KC Venugopal and Ramesh Chennithala after the Congress high command weighed alliance equations,...

GUWAHATI: Manipur’s ethnic unrest that began three years ago between the Meitei and Kuki-Zo has now hardened into entrenched hostility, and widened to include Naga groups, particularly in Ukhrul and Kangpokpi districts.The fresh conflict between Tangkhul Naga and Kuki has its roots in Litan in Ukhrul district in Feb this year, when a Tangkhul Naga...

US President Donald Trump has said that Chinese President Xi Jinping had offered China’s help to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and pledged not to provide military equipment to Iran amid its war with the United States and Israel.Trump made the remarks in an interview with Fox News following a two-day summit with Xi in...

TOI correspondent from Washington: If symbolism is the first language of diplomacy, then US President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing this week amounted to a geopolitical translation of a changing world order: a confident, ascendant China speaking as an equal — if not superior — power to an American president increasingly eager for accommodation rather...

In a world where scientific breakthroughs often bring fame, wealth, and global recognition, Grigori Perelman chose a completely different path. The Russian mathematician stunned the academic world after solving the Poincare Conjecture, one of the most difficult unsolved problems in mathematics that had remained unanswered for nearly a century. But what made Perelman even more...