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President Donald Trump listens as Gemini co-founder and president Cameron Winklevoss, left, and Gemini co-founder and CEO Tyler Winklevoss, right, watch, during a meeting with technology leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (local time) announced an “Economic...

BJP said Congress is showing the same stubbornness against the full version of the national song that the Muslim League had then summoned. NEW DELHI: With Congress Working Committee (CWC) sticking to its 1937 resolution that only the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram will be sung, BJP national president Nitin Nabin Thursday said, “Congress...

CWC discusses Vande Mataram, Chhatron ki Goonj & chanda chori NEW DELHI: The Congress Working Committee Wednesday directed the party’s chief ministers to come up with a concrete plan to revamp education and examination systems in their states, which the party can showcase across the country – in an imaginative bid to tap into the...

NEW DELHI: NCERT has reconstituted the team tasked with preparing political science textbooks for Classes XI and XII, bringing together university academics, schoolteachers and its own faculty members, with the first of the two books scheduled to be ready by Nov.The 20-member panel includes faculty members from JNU, Delhi University, Ignou, National Law University Delhi,...

NEW DELHI: Though the legitimacy of a child born during marriage is presumed, Supreme Court Wednesday held that a child can be subjected to a paternity test in a matrimonial dispute in which a man has sought divorce on the ground of alleged unchaste character of his wife and has claimed that he is not...

The NBW was issued last month against Mohammad Yaqoob, a designated terrorist of Pakistani origin. JAMMU: A special NIA court in Jammu has issued a non-bailable warrant against a top commander of Pak-based LeT for his involvement in planning terror attacks on security forces and civilians in the Kashmir Valley.The NBW was issued last month...

Fugitive diamond businessman Mehul Choksi (right) and advocate Vijay Aggarwal (left) LONDON: Indian criminal lawyer Vijay Aggarwal, who represents fugitive diamond businessman Mehul Choksi, has been arrested in London and is in jail charged with four sexual assault offences on two women. His personal assistant, Manpreet Kaur, is also in jail charged with intentionally encouraging...

As per the MHA notification, the collector may satisfy himself of the suitability of the applicant to be registered or naturalised and grant him citizenship. NEW DELHI: The ministry of home affairs has notified the collectors across border states/Union territories like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, West Bengal, Assam (except tribal area) Tripura (except tribal area), J&K...

PM Modi asked ministers to improve their social media presence. NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi Wednesday asked ministers to spend a day at universities interacting with students and also visit govt schools in their constituencies to assess the facilities being provided to children, including mid-day meals. The twin directives are aimed at strengthening engagement with...

Around 80 people were rescued from the building,which also houses other guest houses, lodges, eateries,offices and retail outlets. KOLKATA: Nine people, at least five of them Bangladeshi nationals, choked to death in their sleep after a fire broke out at a lodge inside a five-storey building on Free School Street in central Kolkata around 1.40...