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<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130707939,imgsize-403885,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-2026-05-02t043052.jpg" alt="Middle East crisis: Air India to make food optional, help cut price of tickets" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo NEW DELHI: Desperate times call for desperate measures. Full service Air India is planning to make meals optional on its domestic and short international (under two hour) flights. Once this “unbundling”...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130707920,imgsize-126374,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-15.jpg" alt="After Rahul Gandhi’s attack, government defends Great Nicobar project" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo NEW DELHI: Government on Friday released a detailed clarification on the Great Nicobar Project, calling it a strategic initiative to strengthen India’s presence in the Andaman Sea. It said the project sought to “balance port-led growth...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130707899,imgsize-1615923,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/ipr-intellectual-property-rights-ustr-indian-startups-startup-ecosystem-indian-businesses-international-law.jpg" alt="India continues to be on US priority watch list on IPR" title=" Representative image ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Representative image NEW DELHI: USTR has retained India on its Special 301 priority watch list, along with five other countries including China, and said it will engage with New Delhi, including through Bilateral Trade Agreement negotiations....

Roommates described Chandu as an introvert who rarely spoke about his personal life. VIJAYAWADA: A 26-year-old Indian youth living in the US shot himself with a hand gun in his apartment in Chicago on Thursday apparently over not being able to find a job there.Chandu Iraganaboyina, a native of Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh, had been...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130707875,imgsize-1112421,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-2026-05-02t035308.jpg" alt="Special Supreme Court bench to hear today TMC plea on counting staff" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress on Friday moved Supreme Court, challenging the additional chief electoral officer’s decision mandating “at least one among the counting supervisor and counting assistant at each counting table shall be...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130707595,imgsize-1195026,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-2026-05-02t034025.jpg" alt="‘Failure to provide support’: US to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany amid widening Iran war rift" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo The United States will withdraw around 5,000 troops from Germany, the Pentagon announced on Friday, in a move that shows the growing tensions between Donald Trump and European allies...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130706367,imgsize-1077435,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-2026-05-02t031951.jpg" alt="West Asia conflict a ‘war’, government firms can invoke ‘force majeure’ clause" title=" The clause allows relief in extraordinary circumstances beyond human control, such as war, and frees parties from contractual liability ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> The clause allows relief in extraordinary circumstances beyond human control, such as war, and frees parties from contractual...

BARGI (JABALPUR): What began as a routine evening outing on the waters of the Bargi Dam turned into a prolonged fight for survival beneath a capsized boat. Riyaz Hussain Sayyed, 70, resident of Jabalpur, who had boarded the cruise around 5 pm with his family, recalls his struggle to stay alive in darkness.“For about half...

File photo NEW DELHI: Many parts of the country may not be hotter than usual this month due to ‘above normal’ rainfall, but certain states, especially those along the Himalayan foothills such as southern Himachal and Uttarakhand, along the eastern coast, and some parts of Maharashtra and Gujarat, are likely to face ‘above normal’ heatwave...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130706084,imgsize-117298,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-13.jpg" alt="West Bengal polls: Lockdown in strongroom areas after TMC, BJP clash" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo KOLKATA: Police locked down neighbourhoods within a 200-metre radius of all seven designated EVM strongrooms in the city Friday after Trinamool Congress’s allegations of vote tampering triggered overnight confrontations with BJP at two locations.Prohibitory...