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Photo : Zemithang, last border village of Arunachal Pradesh along the Indo-China border. (ANI/photo). BEIJING, (ANI) - After India rejected China's attempt to rename places of Arunachal Pradesh, Beijing on April 4 claimed its "sovereignty" over the region. In a regular press

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said former army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa had pressurized him to restore friendship with India. Bajwa said something one day and retracted it the next day. His accountability should be

MUMBAI, (IANS) - Billionaire vaccine tycoon Cyrus Poonawala is keen to move into his palatial Mumbai home but has been stuck in bureaucratic hassles for the past eight years. A miffed Poonawala told a foreign publication that "the government of

JAMNAGAR, (IANS) - Salim Durani, one of the finest all-rounders that have played for India, passed away at his home here after a prolonged battle with cancer, on April 2. He was 88. Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, Durani had Pashtun origins

MUMBAI, (IANS) - The who's who of the arts and entertainment world, both Indian and international, gathered for the grand inauguration of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre at the Jio World Gardens, Bandra-Kurla Complex, here, on March 31 evening. In

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - The Supreme Court on March 27 will hear a petition filed by 2002 Gujarat riots victim Bilkis Bano against the premature release of 11 persons convicted of her gang-rape and murder of her family members, calling

DHARAMSALA, (IANS) - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has named an eight-year-old US-born Mongolian boy as the reincarnation of a spiritual leader. He has been recognized as the reincarnation of the third most important leader in Tibetan Buddhism as the

NEW DELHI (IANS) - Hours after being expelled from the Parliament following his conviction in a criminal defamation case, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted on March 24: "I am fighting for India's voice

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - Facing a nationwide ban in the US, Chinese short-form video making platform TikTok still has access to "troves of personal data of Indian citizens" who once used the app before it was banned in June 2020

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - As a panel of UN experts warned that India's food production could see a massive fall if global warming went unchecked, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that he was asking the G20 for a pact

Photo : Founder Rakesh Jhunjhunwala By Navneet S. Chugh Sonepat: Ashoka University celebrated its tenth anniversary on March 2, 2021. The university was founded in 2014 as a private, non-profit institution of higher education located in Sonepat, Haryana, India. Over the past decade,

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - India has been ranked first in South Asia based on government requests for user data from Big Tech companies, a report showed on March 20. From 2013 to 2021, Meta and Google received the highest number of

India-West News Desk INDIAN WELLS, CA - Rohan Bopanna became the oldest ATP Masters 1000 champion when he and his Australian partner Matt Ebden won the men’s doubles title at the BNP Paribas Open here on March 18. Bopanna, 43, and Ebden,

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - As more and more reports surface about the unfair work and pay conditions delivery boys (online food and grocery delivery platforms call them partners) are facing, top online food aggregators on Saturday said they are working

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - India's top industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Tata has been appointed to the 'Order of Australia' for distinguished service to the Australia-India relationship, particularly to trade, investment, and philanthropy, Australia's Governor General has announced. As of 2022, Ratan

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - Cyber-security researchers from CloudSEK have claimed that a Russian hacker group targeted the Indian Health Ministry website and infiltrated its Health Management Information System (HMIS). The pro-Russian hacker group called Phoenix allegedly compromised the HMIS Portal and

JAIPUR, (IANS) - Video and photos of three maternal uncles giving their niece wedding gifts worth over Rs 3 crore in Rajasthan's Nagaur district is going viral on social media. When the bride's maternal grandfather and uncles reached the venue carrying

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Kavilmadam Ramaswami Parvathy, who led the World Food Programme's (WFP) relief operations in Turkey after last month's devastating earthquakes, as the world body's top official in Tajikistan.Guterres' spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, who

LUCKNOW, (IANS) - The Design Museum of London, to celebrate the movement of rural women's empowerment, has decided to exhibit the 'pink sari' in an exhibition on Indian fashion "Offbeat Sari" that will open in May. The 'pink sari' is a

MELBOURNE, (IANS) - The Indian Consulate in Brisbane was forced to close temporarily on March 15 after Khalistani supporters blocked the entry raising slogans against Hindus, days after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's assurance to curb anti-India elements in the

JAIPUR, (IANS) - Lokendra Singh Kalvi, founder of Shri Rajput Karni Sena and a social worker, passed away late on Monday night following a prolonged illness at SMS Hospital here. According to doctors, Kalvi was hospitalized in June 2022 after suffering

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - India remained the world's top arms importer, but its imports declined by 11 per cent between 2013-17 and 2018-22, according to a report by Stockholm-based defense think-tank SIPRI. The decline was linked to a complex procurement process,

CHENNAI, (IANS) - Many tourists keen to see the elephants Raghu and Ammu, who have become famous after the documentary short film, 'The Elephant Whisperers', won an Oscar at the 95th Academy Awards. The film, helmed by Kartika Gonsalves, revolves around

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - El Nino and La Nina are climate patterns in the Pacific Ocean that can affect weather worldwide. According to meteorologists, El Nino weather patterns this year may lead to deficit monsoon rainfall. El Nino is the warm phase

GURUGRAM, (IANS) - Ramesh Prasad Agarwal, the father of Ritesh Agarwal, Founder and Group CEO of OYO, died on March 10 after falling from a 20th floor balcony of a high-rise in Gurugram. According to police, at around 1 p.m. they

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - India is being proactive in countering the illegal diversion of materials from its sprawling pharmaceutical industries and the use of an army of "underemployed" highly qualified chemists to make illegal synthetic drugs, according to the

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - Only 1 percent of women migrated from their hometowns to other places within the country for employment reasons, while 87 percent of women shifted out of their place of domicile due to their marriage. Almost 50

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on March 9 met visiting US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and discussed issues of mutual interest. Raimondo is currently on a four-day visit to India. In a series of tweets, the finance ministry said

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - A US intelligence report has warned that "expanded military postures by both India and China along the disputed border" elevates the risk of armed confrontation between the two nuclear-powered neighbors. The report said that while India and

HYDERABAD, (IANS) - The United States will be opening a state-of-the-art building of its Consulate General in Hyderabad built at a cost of $340 million on March 20. This represents a tangible investment by the United States in strengthening the US-India

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - India has called attention to the rampant violence perpetrated against women by terrorists and reinforced the demands for zero tolerance for terrorism. Speaking at the Security Council on March 7, India's Permanent Representative Ruchira Kamboj said

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - Hijab has been made mandatory for women students and teachers at co-education academic institutions of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir. A notification to this effect was issued on the instructions of PoK Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas. It will be mandatory

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said that his conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi left him "more optimistic than ever" about the progress that India is making in health, development, and climate. In his 'dispatch' notes, Gates said

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shown his culinary skills by giving 'tadka' to 'khichdi' under the direction of Union minister Smriti Irani at a program focused on 'empowerment through nourishment campaign'. Smriti Irani shared a video on

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - Obesity among boys and girls in India is likely to see an annual rise of 9.1 percent by 2035, if prevention, treatment, and support do not improve, warned an alarming global report ahead of World Obesity

ISLAMABAD, (IANS) - Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has appointed Sardar Ramesh Singh Arora as the ambassador-at-large for the Kartarpur Corridor. According to a notification issued on March 1, Arora will work on the position in an honorary capacity. He is also

NEW DELHI, (ANI) – India External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on March 2 said that G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting reflected the concerns of the global south. The meeting, held under the presidency of India, reflected the bitterness that surrounds nations

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - Representatives of fugitive self-proclaimed godman Swami Nithyananda's fictional nation of 'Kailasa' have wormed their way into a UN committee's discussion on sustainable development in Geneva creating the false impression that the world organization has recognized

ISLAMABAD, (IANS) - The Pakistan Interior Ministry has granted Pakistani citizenship to 214 foreigners in the last five years for multiple reasons, including marriage. As per documents, these include as many as 159 Indians. The documents reveal two Indians got Pakistani nationality

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - The recent announcement by India about the discovery of the largest reserves of lithium in the country has triggered a lot of hope and curiosity. While nearly 5.9 million tons of lithium reserves have been discovered

WASHINGTON, DC (IANS) - With US President Joe Biden nominating Ajay Banga, to head the World Bank, the top posts in the global financial institution will be held by Sikhs. Before Banga, who is slated to take up the job this

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - Workers in India, who use advanced digital skills like cloud architecture or software development, contribute an estimated $507.9 billion to the country's annual gross domestic product (GDP), a report said on February 22. This is attributed to

HYDERABAD, (IANS) - Hyderabad, which has emerged as a key global hub in life sciences, is home to the largest number of US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) approved companies in the world. With 214 units certified by the US drug

CHENNAI, (IANS) - In the case of oil imports, India till now is on a firm path of sourcing the product cheaply from Russia since the latter’s invasion of Ukraine. This is much against the wishes of the western powers who

New Delhi, (IANS) As Meta introduced a new paid verification subscription service on Facebook and Instagram, copying Twitter CEO Elon Musk who already charges users for Blue badges, here is what you will get if you subscribe to "Meta Verified." With

New Delhi, (IANS) On the eve of his 100th Test appearance in the second match of the 2023 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, top-order batter Cheteshwar Pujara revealed his next goal is to help India win a

New Delhi, (IANS) The agreement between Air India and Airbus, under which Tata Group will purchase 250 aircraft from the French aircraft maker, was applauded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. The Tata company, which owns Air India, will purchase

New Delhi, (IANS) According to a Nasscom report released on Wednesday, India added more than 1,300 active digital companies in the last year, taking the country's total to 25,000–27,000. (After the USA and China), India remains the world's 3rd largest tech

Bengaluru, (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said Monday the Aero India Show 2023 has strengthened India's defense sector and given the country a new identity in the world. He addressed the audience at the first Aero India Show 2023 at Yelahanka

New Delhi (IANS) India's first rapid rail service will be operational in three weeks. From March 2023, the country's first rapid rail with amenities comparable to an airplane will run from Sahibabad in Ghaziabad to Duhai Depot. It will travel at