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Over 25,000 kg of hazardous chemical-laced spices were seized during raids HYDERABAD: Over 25,000 kg of hazardous, chemical-laced spices were seized by the Hyderabad Food Adulteration Surveillance Team during raids on spice trading and processing establishments.The action led to the arrest of three people, police said on Tuesday.Acting on credible information from the public, enforcement...

MEA spokersperson called the PoK polls ‘farce’ and slammed Pakistan to pay heed to the atrocities committed by the Pak establishment NEW DELHI: The Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday slammed the recently conducted so-called local elections in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoK), calling them “a complete farce” and accusing Pakistani forces of using violence,...

File photo: Chinese self-propelled artillery guns NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday said it would do “whatever is necessary” to safeguard its national interests after reports emerged that Pakistan had deployed a large number of Chinese-made SH-15 self-propelled artillery guns along the border facing India.Responding to a question during the ministry of external affairs’ weekly media...

​Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s wife Dr Priscilla Chan co-founded The Primary School in East Palo Alto, California, in 2016. The school was established to provide tuition-free education, along with healthcare and family support services, for low-income children. Ten years later, after receiving more than $125 million in funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the...

The additional fee will not apply to every company that employs H-1B or L-1 workers The US government is planning to expand an additional fee currently charged to certain large employers filing H-1B and L-1 visa petitions. According to the Department of Homeland Security’s regulatory agenda, a final rule expected in July could expand the...

File photo: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren (picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday broke his silence amid the ongoing recruitment row, saying his government was examining the concerns of protesting job aspirants with “complete seriousness”.The cheif minister said the decisions would be taken “at the appropriate time” after all...

CM DK Shivakumar urged the disgruntled MLAs to exercise patience and stressed that the Congress was more important than individual political ambitions. BENGALURU: Karnataka chief minister D K Shivakumar on Tuesday moved to quell growing discontent within the Congress after the cabinet expansion, issuing a stern warning to disgruntled MLAs threatening to resign that their...

CM Yogi also accused the SP and the Congress of using the issue to defame UP. NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said no sadhu or saint has been found involved in the alleged Ram Temple donation embezzlement case. CM Yogi said the finding was part of the preliminary report submitted...

Glasgow: India’s Neeraj Chopra during the men’s javelin throw final at the Commonwealth Games 2026, in Glasgow, Scotland. Chopra wins the silver medal in this event. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary)(PTI08_01_2026_000155B) New Delhi: India finished the 2026 Commonwealth Games with 39 medals to its name – 13 gold, 17 silver and nine bronze. It placed India in...

Could India get its own fire cloud? (Image: AP) In July 2026, firefighters in southwest France watched something the country had never recorded before: a burning forest near Bordeaux, which manifested as a churning, anvil-shaped cloud, dark with smoke and crackling with its own lightning. It was a pyrocumulonimbus, a “fire cloud”, born when a...