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Rural area LPG booking period reduced from 45 to 25 days NEW DELHI: With improvement in LPG supplies and a fall in refill backlogs, govt Monday reduced the minimum time gap for booking LPG refills in rural areas to 25 days from 45 days, bringing it on a par with the interval for urban consumers,...

Crude import price hits $100-a-barrel mark NEW DELHI: India’s average crude import price crossed the $100 per barrel mark for the first time in six weeks last Friday and is likely to rise further as international crude prices surge amid intensified hostilities in West Asia and supply disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz.Indian basket of...

Trans-border narco-terror suspect flees NCB custody in Jammu JAMMU: An alleged member of a trans-border narco-terror module escaped from the custody of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Jammu Sunday night, prompting police and the bureau to launch a massive manhunt to nab him.“The details of how Aqib Bashir escaped from custody are unclear… Police and...

Detained Pak national repatriated via intl border JAMMU: A Pakistani man detained near the international border in Jammu’s Kanachak sector last week was repatriated on Monday.Troops of BSF’s 44Bn caught the intruder on Sept 3 near a forward area border outpost. During questioning, he identified himself as Nazir Sadhir from Luni Pundra village in Sialkot...

AI-generated image for representation ​What once seemed distant is becoming possible. Artificial Intelligence (AI) may soon help humans communicate with animals. But the technology is also raising an ethical question over whether animals have a right to privacy. Machine learning models are helping researchers catalogue and reproduce animal sounds, allowing scientists to identify patterns in...

Fearing for their safety, several students are either vacating their PGs or leaving the campus temporarily NEW DELHI: Classrooms and other facilities in several Delhi University colleges were turned into temporary shelters Monday as institutions suspended classes and opened their campuses to students displaced after the PG building collapse in South Delhi’s Satya Niketan.Colleges put...

Vijay started his speech around 9.33am, listing out measures taken by his govt to maintain law and order and ensure corruption-free governance. CHENNAI: In his fiercest attack yet on DMK, Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay brought up the half-century-old Sarkaria Commission report and a 2025 Enforcement Directorate letter in the assembly on Monday,...

In areas like Laxmi Nagar and adjoining Shakarpur and West Angad Nagar, PGs and rented rooms have proliferated around coaching centres. NEW DELHI: In Delhi’s student hubs, finding a PG accommodation can mean squeezing through cramped lanes and narrow staircases in tightly-packed buildings.“PG available” signs compete with tangled wires and exposed meters. In some pockets,...

Akriti Chaudhary, a 24-year-old Delhi University history graduate and student activist, was arrested in connection with cases arising from a workers’ protest in Noida in April 2026 NEW DELHI: The Allahabad High Court has ordered recovery of Rs 5 lakh from the salaries of the Gautam Buddha Nagar district magistrate and other officials after quashing...

Allahabad High Court overturned the NSA detention of Akriti Chaudhary and granted her compensation. PRAYAGRAJ: In a strongly worded order giving the detailed reasons for quashing the National Security Act (NSA) detention of Delhi University student activist Akriti Chaudhary, the Allahabad high court cautioned that errant bureaucrats could reduce Uttar Pradesh to an “Orwellian dystopia”...