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Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut at Parliament, during the 2021 Budget Session, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

Sanjay Raut bats for 'one country, one language', says Hindi is spoken...

Raut's statement comes over a month after Shah said that Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English and not...

14 May 2022 1:10 PM IST

: Congress leader P Chidambaram addresses a press conference during the Congress partys Nav Sankalp Shivir, in Udaipur, Saturday, May 14, 2022. Congress leader Supriya Shrinate is also seen. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist)

Congress slams wheat export ban, says move 'anti-farmer'

If procurement had taken place, there would not have been any need to ban the export of wheat, Chidambaram said

14 May 2022 12:44 PM IST

Security personnel stand guard as officials move towards Gyanvapi Masjid complex, to resume a videographic survey, in Varanasi, Saturday, May 14, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Videography survey resumes at Gyanvapi mosque

The mosque management committee has indicated that it will cooperate for now with the team assigned the task by a local...

14 May 2022 12:06 PM IST

Congress senior leader P Chidambaram along with Supriya Shrinate and Prof Gourav Vallabh addresses the media at Taj Aravali Resort in Udaipur, Rajasthan on Saturday (D. Kamraj/DC)

State of economy cause of 'extreme concern': Chidambaram

P Chidambaram said taking into account global and domestic developments, it may be necessary to contemplate a reset of...

14 May 2022 11:30 AM IST

Russian army Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, 21, is seen behind a glass during a court hearing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, May 13, 2022. The trial of a Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian civilian opened Friday, the first war crimes trial since Moscows invasion. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine opens first war crimes trial of captured Russian

In the first war crimes case brought to trial, Shyshimarin could get life in prison if convicted of shooting a...

14 May 2022 10:56 AM IST

Wheat production is pegged at a record 111.32 million tonnes in the 2021-22 crop year (July-June), as per the second advance estimate of the agriculture ministry. (AFP)

India prohibits wheat exports with immediate effect

The ban on exports also comes amid disruption in global wheat supplies due to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine

14 May 2022 10:35 AM IST

Ranil Wickremesinghe (Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)

AA EDIT | Ranil has his tasks cut out

He has taken up the challenge of a job that no one wants at the moment, not even the Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa

13 May 2022 11:13 PM IST

AA EDIT | WHO reform urgent need after poor Covid handling

There have been calls for the reform of the healthcare arm of the United Nations for quite some time

13 May 2022 11:03 PM IST

Stranded Sri Lankans wait at a bus terminus in Colombo on Thursday during a relaxation in curfew. ((PTI)

Court bars Mahinda, son, 15 MLAs from overseas travel

Order in wake of investigation into attacks on Monday's protest sites

13 May 2022 2:37 AM IST

The court, after hearing the submissions, granted bail to the accused, saying his detention will serve no purpose as the probe into the matter is completed and nothing has to be recovered from him. (Representational image)

AA Edit | Govt needs to act, make marital rape an offence

The legal question before the court was whether Exception 2 in Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code is against the...

13 May 2022 12:44 AM IST