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5G services in India set to be launched on 1 Oct

New Delhi: The launch of 5G services in India, the world's second-biggest smartphone market after China, follows years of intense preparation

BY / Friday, 30 September, 2022

Over 6,000 Myanmarese children studying in Mizoram schools: Official

Aizawl: Myanmar children do not face any language barrier as most of them belong to the Chin community and speak the Mizo language

BY / Thursday, 29 September, 2022

SC declares all women entitled to safe, legal abortion; rape includes marital rape for purpose of MTP Act

New Delhi: In a historic ruling, the SC said, the rights of reproductive autonomy give similar rights to unmarried women as that to married women

BY / Thursday, 29 September, 2022

Air India halves discount on basic fares for senior citizens, students

Mumbai: Air India earlier was offering 50 per cent discount on select booking classes in economy cabins of its aircraft to senior citizens and students

BY / Thursday, 29 September, 2022

Govt appoints Lt Gen Anil Chauhan (retd) as new Chief of Defence Staff

New Delhi: The post of Chief of Defence Staff has been lying vacant since the death of Gen Rawat along with his wife Madhulika Rawat and 12 others in a helicopter crash on 8 December last year

BY / Thursday, 29 September, 2022

R Venkataramani next Attorney General of India, to succeed K K Venugopal

New Delhi: Venkataramani enrolled in the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu in July 1977 and moved to the Supreme Court in 1979

BY / Thursday, 29 September, 2022

Spike in oil price due to Russia-Ukraine conflict breaking India’s back: Jaishankar

Washington: India's crude oil imports from Russia have jumped over 50 times since April and now it makes up for 10 per cent of all crude bought from overseas

BY / Wednesday, 28 September, 2022

ASI to seek world heritage status for Barabar and Nagarjuni caves in Bihar

Patna: These are considered to be the "oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India dating back to the Maurya period", an archaeologist said

BY / Wednesday, 28 September, 2022

3 ways these latest Iran demonstrations are different to past protests

The morality police, on 13 September, arrested Mahsa Amini saying she was wearing her hijab too loosely, she died on 16 September, after spending 3 days in a coma

BY / Wednesday, 28 September, 2022

SC live-streams proceedings of three Constitution benches, gets over eight lakh viewers

New Delhi: On 27 September 2018, the then Chief Justice of India CJI Dipak Misra, heading a bench delivered the landmark judgement on a live telecast or webcast of important proceedings in matters of constitutional importance, saying "sunlight is

BY / Wednesday, 28 September, 2022

Modi pays tribute to Abe, calls him ‘phenomenal’, ‘someone who believed in India-Japan friendship’

Tokyo: Abe was assassinated while giving a campaign speech on a street in Nara, a city in western Japan

BY / Tuesday, 27 September, 2022

Women turning entrepreneurs in Assam by churning out dinnerware from areca palm waste

Chaygaon: The women earn Rs 200-250 daily by making the dinner plates from the sheaths that were earlier considered waste material

BY / Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
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