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Cauvery Water Management Authority upholds Karnataka water release directive to Tamil Nadu NEW DELHI: Upholding the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee’s order, Cauvery Water Management Authority on Thursday directed Karnataka to release 3,500 cusecs of Cauvery water daily to Tamil Nadu for the next 15 days. As per the direction, Karnataka will have to release a...

File photo: External affairs minister S Jaishankar with Ukraine foreign minister Andrii Sybiha NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar discussed attacks on commercial shipping and Indian seafarers in the Black Sea with his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha, underscoring India’s position that such attacks by any party are absolutely unacceptable and condemned unequivocally. India had...

File photo: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi NEW DELHI: Over 200 academicians have written an open letter objecting to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra‘s ‘gaumutra’ expert jibe at IIT Madras director V Kamakoti and said dismissing a scholar through a label risks undermining the scientific temper promoted by the Constitution.The first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, is credited with...

Representative image NEW DELHI: Four hundred and fourteen Indians were deported from the US till the end of March 2026, EAM S Jaishankar informed Parliament on Thursday. Government data also showed deportations from the US rose sharply from 617 in 2023 to 1,368 in 2024 and 2,025 last year.After the US, the highest number of...

File photo: PM Modi NEW DELHI: Amid the deepening Middle East crisis, PM Narendra Modi Thursday chaired what was the fourth special meeting of the cabinet committee on security (CCS) and directed establishment of a mechanism to provide timely information, emergency assistance and counselling to seafarers, serving on both domestic and foreign-flagged vessels, and their...

File photo: Pellet gun use during jantar mantar protest NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday directed Delhi government to provide treatment to those injured during students’ protests but found a plea for ban on use of pellet guns for crowd control vague and asked when police are permitted to fire bullets in extreme situations, how...

The largest chunk of the latest recruitment drive is to fill up 244 Level-4 administrative posts through the Isro Centralised Recruitment Board (ICRB) BENGALURU: The department of space (DoS) and Isro have launched one of their widest recruitment drives in recent years, announcing 746 openings across scientists, administrative staff and apprentices over the past week,...

Lovepreet Singh competes in the men’s +110kg weightlifting final at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo) India’s weightlifting team ended its Commonwealth Games 2026 campaign with another medal on Thursday after Lovepreet Singh won silver in the men’s 110+kg category in Glasgow.It was India’s eighth medal in weightlifting at...

A cave, announced as one of the 23 historic sites across Ladakh as “Protected Monuments” SRINAGAR: Ladakh LG, Vinai Kumar Saxena, on Thursday declared 23 heritage sites as “protected monuments” to provide legal protection to the rich archaeological, historical, and cultural heritage of the UT.The sites notified as protected monuments under the Jammu and Kashmir...

Police attached the immovable properties of five Pakistan-based terror handlers JAMMU: J&K Police attached properties of five Pakistan-based terrorist handlers in Reasi district on Thursday to prevent their misuse for terror financing in the Union Territory.The attachment — linked to a case registered at Mahore PS under the provisions of BNS, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act,...