India is finally joining the digital identity race with its nationwide rollout of chip-enabled e-passports. Over 20,000 have already been issued in Tamil Nadu, and 13 cities are set to go live.
The collapse of the Dutch government, less than a year after it was formed, reveals the deep fault lines running through European coalition politics today.
India is a member of George W Bush and other formations. Where to locate the Global South? The language of development is the best way to understand worlds in the making. But it has become la langue de bois (the language of evasion).
The Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board (JKSSB) issued a notification on 9 June for recruitment of 75 naib tehsildars, with Urdu designated as a compulsory subject.
Uttar Pradesh Labour Minister Anil Rajbhar on Thursday announced that the state government will observe ‘Child Labour Prohibition Week’ across the state from June 12 to 19.
On the occasion, the chief minister directed deployment of drones in a pilot project aimed at monitoring crop health and detecting diseases. He stated that this initiative would provide farmers with timely information to help prevent crop losses.
The Trinamul Congress strongly criticised the BJP government on Wednesday over its failure to provide basic transport infrastructure to security personnel deployed for the Amarnath Yatra.
Violent clashes erupted in the city's south outskirt Maheshtala on Wednesday as two local groups came to blows over setting up roadside shops, turning the Rabindranagar area into a virtual war zone.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has congratulated undergrad students who have achieved success at the prestigious physics competition in Barcelona, Spain.
Flanked by high mountain peaks, the Chenab Bridge stands 359 meters above mean sea level, dwarfing the Eiffel Tower by 35 meters, and the Qutub Minar five times over!
In a detailed letter submitted on behalf of the Sindhudesh National Movement and JSMM, Burfat provides a bleak picture of life in Sindh, claiming that villages are raided, families are terrorised, and political opposition is met with violence, abductions, and enforced disappearances.
Baloch National Movement's Human Rights body Paank on Thursday strongly condemned the extrajudicial killings of two more victims of enforced disappearances by the Pakistani army in Mashkai of Balochistan's Awaran district.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent a message congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin on Russia Day, the North's state media reported on Wednesday.
Indonesia has reported 75 cases of Covid-19 across the archipelago since early this year, local media reported Wednesday, citing the Ministry of Health.
Google is set to roll out a mandatory software update for Pixel 6a users following multiple reports of battery overheating and, in some cases, the devices catching fire.
Several actors and public figures took to social media to express their sorrow, offer prayers, and stand in solidarity with the victims and their families.
Tragically, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, carrying 242 people including passengers and crew, crashed just beyond the airport perimeter shortly after departure.
Indian shooting sensation Sift Kaur Samra continued her impressive run on the international stage, clinching a bronze medal in the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions event at the ISSF World Cup (rifle/pistol) in Munich on Thursday.
Speaking to ICC Digital, Ponting was full of praise for the South African duo and made a telling comparison between Rabada’s mastery of Lord’s conditions and McGrath’s famed success at the historic venue.
India bowling coach Morne Morkel has expressed his excitement over Jasprit Bumrah’s impressive form in the lead-up to the five-Test series against England, saying he has been “blown away” by the pace spearhead’s rhythm and energy during the initial training sessions.
Shibashis Banerjee, president of the Central Kolkata unit of TMCP along with other members raised concerns by students from multiple colleges across Central Kolkata.
In a blazing start to the 2024–25 placement season, IIT Kharagpur has set a new benchmark in campus recruitment, with nine students bagging job offers exceeding Rs 1 crore per annum, and the highest package touching an unprecedented Rs 2.14 crore.
This expanded partnership aims to strengthen cooperation between academic institutions, research laboratories, and industry stakeholders across India and the United States.
The State’s Higher Education Department and the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Monday to offer a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, diploma and certificate programmes in the Odia language, an official said on Tuesday.
World leaders, including former prime minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, have expressed grief and sympathies over the loss of life in the Ahmedabad plane crash on Thursday.
Addressing his weekly media briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, "We strongly condemn the despicable attack and vandalisation of the ancestral home of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore by a mob on June 8, 2025.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday informed that India is in touch with China, seeking predictability in the supply of rare earth metals – which had been put under the export controls regime by the Xi administration.
Congress leader Nana Patole said here on Thursday that during the last 11 years, Narendra Modi's foreign policy has been like a computer game, in which noise and publicity is very visible, but it has completely failed to achieve real goals.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray met Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis at Hotel Taj Land's End in Bandra West on Thursday morning and held a closed-door meeting for about an hour even as Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP and official spokesperson Sanjay Raut was addressing a morning press conference.
IFFCO Paradeep unit has emerged as the winner of the 24th Annual Greentech Environment Award 2025 for outstanding achievements in environment protection.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Rammohan Naidu on Thursday said the government will order a ''fair and thorough'' probe into the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad and asserted that no one will be spared.
