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Ajit Doval and Wang Yi after the meeting. Ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India next month, India and China held the 25th round of Special Representatives (SR) Dialogue on the Boundary Question, endorsing efforts to formalise the recent turnaround in the relationship on the back of border peace and discussing issues like...

Baglihar stage-I in Ramban district has remained non-operational for a week (Photo for representation) SRINAGAR: Jammu & Kashmir is grappling with power shortages and unscheduled outages after key hydroelectric projects, including the 450MW Baglihar stage I and the Salal project, were shut for silt-flushing operations. Baglihar stage-I in Ramban district has remained non-operational for a...

Six arrests were made in south Kashmir’s Shopian district and two in Pulwama. (File photo) SRINAGAR: Joint teams of security forces arrested eight terror suspects and seized arms, ammunition, and other incriminating material in separate operations in three Kashmir districts.Six arrests were made in south Kashmir’s Shopian district and two in Pulwama, also in south...

​On April 3, 1973, Motorola engineer Dr Martin Cooper made what is widely recognised as the first mobile phone call. Standing on a New York City street, Cooper called Joel Engel, an engineer at Bell Laboratories and his rival in the race to develop mobile communications. Cooper told Engel he was calling from a “personal,...

An elevated, high-definition view of the newly protected landscape surrounding the Mimbres River in southwestern New Mexico. Conservationists and state officials in New Mexico have completed a deal to buy nearly 11,000 acres of ecologically rich land along the Mimbres River, permanently protecting an important desert watershed and creating the state’s newest public conservation preserve....

Dolly Parton began writing songs when she was about six years old. Dolly Parton, the legendary American country singer, songwriter and actress, died on Tuesday aged 80, her family said.Parton was one of the most successful figures in country music, selling more than 100 million records worldwide and winning 11 Grammy Awards, including a Lifetime...

NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the Narendra Modi govt has set a goal to make the country illegal immigration-free in a “very short period of time” and, for this purpose, reached out to the border states over the past eight months, sharing with them its document on a quadrangular approach to...

A combination of file photo shows Bihar CM Samrat Choudhary (left), Bankipur MLA Prashan Kishor and leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav. PATNA: Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Tuesday challenged Bihar chief minister Samrat Choudhary and leader of the opposition Tejashwi Yadav to “sit for their matriculation exams together” and clear the test, news...

PC: Intentional incisions on Neolithic Obsidian arrowheads from Central Anatolia: A techno-functional and iconographic approach For nearly nine thousand years, a set of Anatolian arrowheads has been quietly guarding a secret. Archaeologists working at Tepecik-Ciftlik, a Neolithic settlement in Cappadocia, central Turkey, have identified eleven newly recognised obsidian points bearing deliberate, hand-cut incisions, bringing the...

Cole Tucker and wife Vanessa Hudgens combined net worth in 2026: Inside MLB earnings, endorsements, investments, family life and luxury lifestyle (Image via Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty) The pair, Cole Tucker and Vanessa Hudgens, are a high-profile marriage between sports and entertainment. The two come from very different professional backgrounds. Tucker played in Major League Baseball for...