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How Uri led to surgical strikes (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: Ten years ago, on the night of September 28-29, 2016, Indian Army commandos crossed the Line of Control and carried out surgical strikes on terrorist launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.The operation, carried out in response to the Pakistan-sponsored Uri terror attack, marked a hard-hitting...

Russia’s uranium shipment for Bangladesh’s Rooppur nuclear plant delayed (Image credit: Reuters) NEW DELHI: Pakistan has denied airspace clearance to a Russian cargo flight carrying nuclear fuel for Bangladesh’s Rooppur nuclear power plant, delaying the scheduled arrival of uranium for the facility’s Unit 2. Pakistan later described the matter as a “technical and procedural” issue...

Ketan got fiancée Siya’s name tattooed on back PUNE: In a new detail in the Lohagad Fort murder case, the father of Ketan Agarwal has said his son had got his fiancée Siya Goyal’s name tattooed on his back as a birthday gift for her, even as the family was preparing for her birthday and...

NEW DELHI: DMK on Tuesday said it would not attend the INDIA bloc meeting scheduled for September 30, asserting that it is no longer part of the opposition alliance after Congress broke ties with it and extended support to Vijay’s TVK following the Tamil Nadu assembly elections.DMK spokesperson TKS Elangovan said several parties were reluctant...

PC: Forbes In the mid-1990s, Amazon was little more than a risky idea built around an emerging technology that most people had barely encountered. Jeff Bezos was asking investors to put money behind an online bookseller at a time when there was no established market for buying books over the internet, and many declined. According...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino FIFA lawyers have accused UEFA of harassing president Gianni Infantino and urged a Florida judge to reject the European soccer body’s request for evidence related to a proposed private investment plan involving the 2026 World Cup, news agency Assocuated Press reported.In a 21-page filing submitted late Monday (local time) to the...

NHRC seeks reports over alleged use of minors in scripted social media videos in UP’s Etah NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday took cognizance of a complaint alleging the repeated use of minor children in “scripted, objectionable and politically sensitive” social media videos linked to a purported coaching centre in Etah,...

Delhi Police apprehends two MHA officials in alleged FCRA bribery case NEW DELHI: Two officials of the Union home ministry have been apprehended for allegedly seeking a bribe from an association to facilitate its registration under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), PTI reported on Tuesday.The Delhi Police Special Cell, in coordination with central agencies,...

Durga Puja preparations in Kolkata One of the enduring memories of the Mamata Banerjee era in West Bengal will be the elaborate Durga Puja carnival, where handpicked baro pujos (marquee pujas) would parade along Red Road with tableaux before the CM and other dignitaries in an almost Republic Day-esque procession. It would often end with...

Families on Nicollet Island have called the houses they have been living in homes for years. While some work as artists, others as healers and social workers. But recently, they got to know that their homes may have been listed for sale by property managers Twin Cities Housing Development Corporation, a nonprofit based in St....