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‘American terrorist army’: Iran claims second US drone seized in Hormuz (Reuters file photo) Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy has claimed it captured a second advanced US unmanned underwater vehicle, the Remus 600, in the Strait of Hormuz.According to a statement carried by Iranian state broadcaster IRIB on Sunday, the operation targeted what...

​Mule deer moving through a landscape (Representational photo) The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) has announced $13.3 million in grants for 14 projects aimed at protecting wildlife habitat and migration corridors across the western United States. The projects will cover Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming.The...

This allows toll to be charged without vehicles stopping, slowing down or remaining in a designated lane. (Image for representative purpose) A few years ago, India introduced FASTag to make toll collection across its highways and expressways digital and cashless. Now, it is looking to make the process barrier-free or toll plaza free. Imagine zipping...

India secure medals at Chess Olympiad (Photos by FIDE) NEW DELHI: Chess came to the Baskar household not through Savitha Shri but through her older brother, Mugesh, whom their father had originally set out to build a chess career around. Savitha’s own interest came from watching him play.By the time both children were training under...

Delhi minister Parvesh Verma said the video being circulated by the AAP did not show the full context of the incident. NEW DELHI: Delhi PWD minister Parvesh Verma on Sunday responded to a video showing him allegedly slapping a man during a road inspection in Tilak Nagar. Verma said he reacted after a worker accompanying...

In 1988, Ohio lawyer Neil McKown signed a deal to buy 155 acres of overgrown, run-down land in Shelby. When he got home that evening, he asked his family to get into the car to see what he had just bought. His wife, Pamela, was not impressed by the property. She thought it was an...

(Representative image): CISF will carry out access-control and screening measures, including frisking with X-ray baggage screening machines and Door Frame Metal Detectors (DFMDs). NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has tightened security around its examination work with 39 CISF personnel deployed at its New Delhi office. The force will monitor confidential areas, control access...

Tamil Nadu govt received backlash even from member of its ally Congress over the notification The Tamil Nadu government on Sunday withdrew its notification exempting the Public (Law and Order) Department from the Right to Information Act, hours after issuing the Gazette notification that classified the department as an “Intelligence and Security Organisation”.The rollback came...

Azerbaijani woman, 20, allegedly drugged and gang-raped in Lahore; 3 booked (AP file photo) A 20-year-old woman from Azerbaijan was allegedly gang-raped by three men in Lahore after being taken to a flat in the Defence Housing Authority area, news agency PTI cited police on Sunday.The incident allegedly took place after the woman, who came...

Suvendu Adhikari on Bengal’s ‘changed winds’ NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday said the situation in the state had changed, asserting that people could now recite the Bhagavad Gita “fearlessly”.The first BJP chief minister of Bengal made the remarks at a Bhagavad Gita recital event in Kolkata, where around 11,000 people...