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video allegedly showing a tourist couple being harassed and the man assaulted on the road to Kapilash (Photo credit: X) DHENKANAL: A 26-year-old man and a woman in her 20s travelling to the Kapilash shrine in Dhenkanal on a motorcycle were allegedly intercepted and assaulted by a group of men, with a video purportedly capturing...

Trump administration faces flak from critics over Belarus potash deal amid pressure on India over Russian energy TOI correspondent from Washington: Critics are calling out the Trump administration for hypocrisy and double standards after MAGA supremo Donald Trump announced a potash (fertiliser) deal on Monday with Belarus, a close ally of Moscow, days after he...

The High Commission clarified that the 30-day visa-free facility available to Indian passport holders is meant only for tourism. India has warned its nationals against using Malaysia’s 30-day visa-free entry facility to seek employment, cautioning them about agents making false job promises.The High Commission of India in Kuala Lumpur said there has been a “noticeable...

German cruiser SMS Emden that bombarded the city during the WWI on September 22. When World War I broke out in Europe in July 1914, Madras was thousands of kilometres away from the battlefields. Yet there was little certainty among British authorities that the war would remain confined to Europe. The city’s strategic importance as...

Tejashwi demands Samrat Choudhary’s resignation over Jamui incident NEW DELHI: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday demanded Bihar chief minister Samrat Choudhary’s resignation over the alleged harassment of two minor students, including a girl, in Jamui, saying the incident showed that “women and girls are not safe anywhere in Bihar”.Addressing a presser in Patna, the...

The report identified several other factors that can contribute to severe corrosion India made the switch from ICF design to LHB coaches in 2003 when the first such German-technology coaches were imported. Since then it has increasingly indigenized the coaches and now manufactures only LHB passenger coaches apart from train sets.But, recently senior railway engineers...

BJP MLA Rameshwar Sharma’s garba comment sparks row NEW DELHI: A remark by Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Rameshwar Sharma on Muslim men attending Garba events sparked a political row on Monday. Speaking at a public event, the Bhopal MLA said Muslims were welcome to attend Garba and added that they should be “welcomed” permanently.Sharma then...

Anahat Singh carries India’s gold medal hopes in squash at the 2026 Asian Games. (ANI) New Delhi: For the first time in 24 years, Saurav Ghosal will watch an Asian Games from the sidelines. The former India No. 1, whose first appearance in the continental event came in Busan 2002, stepped away after nine medals:...

The inauguration of the first KFC outlet in Begusarai city by Union minister Giriraj Singh PATNA: Union textiles minister and Begusarai MP Giriraj Singh’s inauguration of a KFC outlet at Har Har Mahadev Chowk in Begusarai has triggered a debate on social media, with users drawing attention to his earlier appeals to Hindus to consume...

Jewellers remain hopeful that the moderation in demand will prove temporary as the festive calendar progresses. A huge rise in gold prices from the same time last year has led to a drop in gold sales this Ganesh Chaturthi. Gold sales have declined by around 15% year-on-year in volume terms, with consumers either reducing the...