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By: Mallica JoshiNEW DELHI: How did Beijing go from being the ‘smog capital of the world’ to footnotes in research papers on tackling air pollution? China has lessons for India.In a series of posts on X, spokesperson of the Chinese embassy in India, Yu Jing laid out the path that Beijing followed to drastically improve...

US President Donald Trump is set to deliver a televised address to the nation Wednesday, outlining plans to strengthen America amid declining popularity over economic concerns.Trump previewed his speech to reporters, saying, “The message this evening is we inherited a mess, and we’ve done a great job, and we continue to, and our country is...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-126047567,imgsize-30312,width-400,resizemode-4/screenshot-2025-12-18-040540.jpg" alt="Barrier-free highway toll collection system by 2026-end: Gadkari" title=" . ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> New Delhi: Highway commuters won’t have to stop to pay user fee at national highway toll plazas by 2026-end as the govt rolls out the multi-lane free flow (MLFF) system, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday....

New Delhi: IndiGo was quizzed on Wednesday by a parliamentary committee over the misery inflicted on passengers by its mass-cancellation of flights, but it blamed a variety of factors, including system glitch and adverse weather conditions, while DGCA and the aviation ministry parried off criticism of their role in the fiasco.Some committee members termed replies...

JALANDHAR: One moment he was enjoying kebabs on Bondi beach. The next, he was running headlong towards a hail of bullets.The Bondi shooting, horrifying as it was, also saw heroism by ordinary individuals, one of whom was Punjabi-Sikh origin New Zealander Amandeep Singh Bola, who sprinted in the direction of the gunfire, saw one of...

NEW DELHI: After a nine-year gap, the central govt has launched a fresh National Mental Health Survey to assess the scale of mental illness across India, expanding its coverage to all states and UTs for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic. National Mental Health Survey-2 (NMHS-2), being conducted by the National Institute of Mental...

Bengaluru apartment body booked for running parallel justice system BENGALURU: A controversial “drug penalty” system in a residential complex has prompted a full-fledged criminal investigation, with police accusing the apartment association and a private security firm of running an illegal parallel justice mechanism and systematically suppressing serious crimes.Kumbalgodu police have registered a suo motu criminal...

A hero cop or Detective Senior Constable Cesar “Cess” Barraza shot dead Bondi Beach shooter Sajid Akram during last week’s deadly attack on Sydney’s Jewish community. He was wearing a standard detective uniform of shirt and tie. Barraza fired at the suspects from roughly 130 feet, or 40 metres, using only a handgun. His second...

New Delhi/Dhaka: India summoned Bangladesh high commissioner Riaz Hamidullah on Wednesday to express strong concerns at the deteriorating security environment in Bangladesh. In a statement, MEA said its attention was drawn, in particular, to activities of some extremist elements who have announced plans to create a security situation around the Indian mission in Dhaka, report...

NEW DELHI: The air quality remained very poor for the second straight day on Wednesday, though the air quality index (AQI) marginally improved from 354 a day earlier to 334, helped by strong winds flowing into the city.No respite is likely with the air predicted to hover within the same category until Dec 20. It...