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Japan launches new centralised intelligence agency Japan has pushed for a sweeping intelligence reform and launched its first centralised intelligence body since World War II. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pushes for sweeping security reforms in the face of growing regional threats.The National Intelligence Bureau formally launched on Friday, is an upgrade to the Cabinet Intelligence...

Authorities have also frozen bank accounts containing Rs 93 crore allegedly linked to Tulu Mondal. KOLKATA: Rs 150 crore in cash, gold and assets including 242 vehicles, two petrol pumps, seven houses, a farmhouse, and counting. The list constitutes only a part of Birbhum stone mining baron Tulu Mondal’s properties. Reading out the details of...

The MEA criticized Pakistan’s harsh crackdown on protesters in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. (PTI images) NEW DELHI: India on Friday slammed Pakistan of making an open admission of state-sponsored terrorism after a senior aide to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif acknowledged that Islamabad had trained and armed Mujahideen who have now turned against the Pakistani state.The...

Lake Allos (French Alps), the largest natural high-altitude lake in Europe and one of the two study sites for this research. Credit: Hervé Rogissart In 1924, Arctic charr from Lake Geneva were introduced into Lake Allos. A hundred years later, scientists found that their descendants had developed different metabolic responses, even when raised under the...

Two more deaths in Sivasagar pushed Assam’s flood toll to 80 on Friday, even as more than 2.12 lakh people across eight districts continued to grapple with the deluge.The latest figures mark an improvement from the previous day’s situation, when the flood toll stood at 78, over 3 lakh people across seven districts were affected,...

Harsh Singh, in blue, competes against Australia’s Antun Neto Pedro Carlos during a men’s 60kg semifinal judo match at the 23rd Commonwealth Games, in Glasgow, Scotland. India’s judo team assured the country of at least three silver medals at the Commonwealth Games after Asmita Dey, Harsh Singh and Yamini Mourya reached the finals of their...

How did a forgotten belt of Africa become the world’s most dangerous breeding ground for jihadist violence? For two decades, the world’s war on jihadism has been told through the ruins of Kabul, the streets of Mosul and the deserts of Syria. Yet while global attention remained fixed on the Middle East, the centre of...

CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke alleges BJP goons triggered violence, while police families seek Parliament debate on injuries suffered during the July 20 march. NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Friday alleged that the violence during the party’s July 20 march to Parliament was part of a conspiracy to target students, while...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held his first telephone conversation with newly elected UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, congratulating him on assuming office as the two leaders agreed to deepen cooperation in technology, artificial intelligence, defence, trade and security while also discussing the situation in the Middle East, including efforts to reopen...