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n this still image from video, author Salman Rushdie is taken on a stretcher to a helicopter for transport to a hospital after he was attacked during a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP)

Rushdie's attacker showed sympathy to causes of Iran's Revolutionary...

The New York State Police identified the suspect as Hadi Matar from Fairview, New Jersey while the motive behind the act...

13 Aug 2022 11:49 AM IST

The RSS, the ideological fountainhead of the ruling BJP, has been criticised by the Congress and other Opposition parties over its stand on the national flag. (Twitter)

RSS changes profile pictures of its social media accounts to national...

The Central government has urged people to hoist or display the national flag from their homes during August 13-15 as...

13 Aug 2022 10:49 AM IST

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav leaves after meeting Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi, in New Delhi, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary)

Tejashwi meets Sonia, Opposition leaders in Delhi: 'Bihar has shown...

Nitish government faces floor test on August 24, Lalu to clear names for Cabinet

13 Aug 2022 8:29 AM IST

Salman Rushdie (AP file photo)

Salman Rushdie on ventilator, likely to lose an eye, liver stabbed and...

According to Rushdie's agent, Andrew Wylie, the Mumbai-born controversial author was on a ventilator and could not speak

13 Aug 2022 8:17 AM IST

Jammu: Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi during the wreath laying ceremony of four army soldiers killed in a militant attack in J&Ks Rajouri on Thursday morning, in Jammu district. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Ending 370 & terror in J&K: Delhi, UT govt must explain

The recent attack raises questions about the strategy of the Central government regarding the UT after the abrogation of...

13 Aug 2022 12:20 AM IST

Freebies become the fig leaf that corrupt politicians and political parties use to cover their sins of omission and commission while seeking electoral support. (Representational Image/ AP)

AA Edit | Freebies: It's not courts' call

The leading question the judiciary may have entertained is whether any political party would agree to curbs on freebies...

13 Aug 2022 12:16 AM IST

United Nations Security Council in session (Photo: AP)

China blocks India-US bid to blacklist terrorist at UNSC

Upon being designated as a global terrorist, Abdul Rauf Azhar will be subjected to assets freeze, travel ban and arms...

12 Aug 2022 10:50 AM IST

Justice UU Lalit. (Image credit: Twitter)

Justice U U Lalit appointed 49th CJI, to take oath on Aug 27

A renowned senior advocate, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court on August 13, 2014

12 Aug 2022 8:41 AM IST

Scheduled domestic flights in India were completely suspended for a period of two months between March 25 and May 24, 2020, due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown. (Representational image: Twitter/@airindiain)

DGCA lifts airfare price cap

All airlines now free to decide what they want to charge from their passengers

11 Aug 2022 3:31 AM IST

The signs are ominous Europe is sweating like never before. (DC Image)

AA Edit | Heatwaves are the new normal

The Arctic has seen its oldest and thickest ice declining by 95 per cent in the last three decades

11 Aug 2022 12:02 AM IST

Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar with Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav interacts with the media after meeting Bihar Governor Phagu Chauhan, in Patna. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | BJP to feel the heat of Nitish's coup in 2024

It is the BJP's expansionist tendency that has fed dissatisfaction with the party's traditional allies

11 Aug 2022 12:00 AM IST