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Irapanar village in Abujhmarhs lights up after decades of darkness RAIPUR: “We stayed awake that night… just watching the bulb glow,” says a villager in Irapanar — a place that, until now, existed more in memory than on maps.Tucked deep inside the forests and hills of Abujhmarh, around 30km from Narayanpur district headquarters but hours...

Imphal protest Imphal: Thousands of people seeking answers on key issues in strife-torn Manipur clashed with police in Imphal on Saturday after they were stopped from marching to the chief minister’s residence.The protest march was called by the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (Cocomi). Security was tightened across the city, with barricades erected at Keishampat...

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Shehbaz Sharif with Abbas Araghchi (AP image) In a high-stakes diplomatic push, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held talks with Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi in Islamabad on Saturday.Araghchi arrived in Islamabad carrying Tehran’s formal response to US proposals, with discussions focusing on the ‘regional situation’ and ceasefire dynamics. The meeting saw the presence of...

US President Donald Trump (File photo) US President Donald Trump on Saturday cancelled a planned trip to Pakistan by his envoys, who were supposed to meet Iranian leaders in Islamabad and hold peace talks with Tehran. He also criticised Iran’s leadership, saying that “nobody knows who is in charge”.After calling off the visit to Islamabad,...

Rajasthan Royals’ Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (AP Photo) Vaibhav Sooryavanshi continues to pile up records at a staggering pace in IPL 2026, with the teenage sensation rewriting milestones almost every game and now climbing to the very top of the Orange Cap race.Sooryavanshi’s stunning rise reached another landmark as he surged to the top of the Orange...

Delhi Capitals could not bring in Dushmantha Chameera as a concussion substitute for injured pacer Lungi Ngidi during their IPL 2026 match against Punjab Kings because of the IPL rule allowing only four overseas players in a match.Ngidi suffered a head injury while trying to take a catch of Punjab Kings opener Priyansh Arya at...

On the 46th anniversary of one of the most humiliating defeats in US military history, Iran’s judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i on Saturday warned the United States that incidents similar to “Isfahan and Tabas” could be repeated if tensions escalate in the Persian Gulf.“Americans should know that they also lack the capability to impose a naval...

NEW DELHI: Several Aam Aadmi Party workers on Saturday protested outside the residence of Rajya Sabha MP Rajinder Gupta in Ludhiana.According to the video, party workers using spray paint cans wrote several slogans in Punjabi, including captions like ‘Gaddar’, on the walls of Gupta’s residence to express their resentment after he joined the Bharatiya Janata...

Arvind Kejriwal and Swati Maliwal (R) (File photo) NEW DELHI: Former aide to Arvind Kejriwal and now a BJP leader, Swati Maliwal on Saturday levelled sharp allegations against her former boss, claiming that before becoming chief minister he wore “torn pants”, used a “two-rupee pen” and “drove around in a dilapidated car”, but after coming...