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BJP leaders at Brics Summit NEW DELHI: India’s success against the odds in bringing Brics countries with incongruent, even conflicting, outlooks on key global issues of contention, such as the West Asia conflict, to throw their weight behind a joint declaration comes as a timely domestic boost for BJP when its rivals are sensing some...

Ritabrata Banerjee and Mamata Banerjee NEW DELHI: The Election Commission Saturday met with the representatives of both factions of Trinamool Congress, one headed by former West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and the other group headed by West Bengal leader of opposition Ritabrata Banerjee, amid their competing claims to being the real party entitled to the...

In 1926, Iowa writer Ruth Suckow published Iowa Interiors, a collection of 14 short stories drawn from the lives of people in the state’s farms and small towns. A century later, the book is returning to print in a new centennial edition from Cedar Falls-based Final Thursday Press, with new illustrations by Iowa artist Claudia...

More than 1,600 years ago, as fire engulfed a Roman settlement in what is now Bulgaria, a young man appears to have made a desperate decision: he climbed inside a huge storage jar and hid. He never came out. Archaeologists uncovered his remains inside the vessel during excavations at the ancient Roman colony of Deultum...

Photo credit: actionfornature.org When Nithya Tammana learned that lead could enter drinking water through old pipes and plumbing fixtures, she did not treat the problem as someone else’s responsibility. The New Jersey student began researching affordable ways to make contaminated water safer, eventually focusing on a humble material often found growing on rocks, trees and...

Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange announced a five-day march to Mumbai starting Sept 15 on the 15th day of his indefinite hunger strike on Saturday despite appeals from several ministers to defer the programme during Ganeshotsav. Jarange termed the proposed march a “decisive and final” protest, saying he...

Some locals noticed the body in Seoj Dhar zone and intimated authorities (Representative image) JAMMU: Decomposed remains of a suspected Pakistani Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist was found Saturday along with an M4 rifle in Divshetar area of J&K’s Doda district, with security forces suggesting the corpse had been lying in the snow-capped hills since the man’s...

An SIA spokesperson said investigators found that some individuals were allegedly in contact with suspicious persons across the Line of Control (LoC) and the border JAMMU: Five locations in Poonch and Udhampur districts were searched by Jammu & Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) Saturday as part of an investigation into the alleged spread of secessionist...

Swabhimaan actor Rohit Roy is drawing criticism for his comments against television medium and TV actors. The actor in a podcast tagged the small screen as a “dustbin medium” and said film stars have a certain level of “style and class” that television actors lack. Now, Saath Nibhana Saathiya fame Devoleena Bhattacharjee has come out...

Nigel Farage (L) said he disagreed with Trump (R) and insisted that Northern Ireland is an “integral part” of Uk. US President Donald Trump’s remarks backing a united Ireland have drawn a sharp response from Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who said he disagreed with the US President and insisted that Northern Ireland is an...