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Priyanka Gandhi waves during a road show for the upcoming state assembly elections in Prayagraj, in Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

UP polls: Fifth phase of voting on Sunday; 692 candidates in fray for...

Amethi and Raebareli, once considered Congress bastions, and Ayodhya, the epicentre of the Ram temple movement, will too...

26 Feb 2022 1:13 PM IST

This is the second such agreement that the Indian Air Force has signed for buying okayed airframes that will help one of the most potent aircraft fleets to continue for longer in service. (ANI)

IAF decides not to send aircraft to multilateral air exercise in UK

Though the IAF did not clearly mention the reasons for the pull-out, it is learnt that the crisis in Ukraine prompted...

26 Feb 2022 12:20 PM IST

Ukrainian soldiers take position on a bridge inside the city of Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Street fighting begins in Kyiv; people urged to seek shelter

The clashes followed two days of fighting that resulted in hundreds of casualties and pummeled bridges, schools and...

26 Feb 2022 12:10 PM IST

Indian nationals hold the tricolor before boarding the 2nd special Air India flight, evacuating Indians from war-torn Ukraine, in Bucharest, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. (PTI)

Air India's second flight carrying 250 Indian evacuees from Ukraine...

Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia welcomed the evacuees at the airport by handing out roses to them

26 Feb 2022 11:43 AM IST

A health worker checks swab samples collected for RTPCR test to detect COVID-19 at a government hospital in Hyderabad. (AP file photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

India records 11,499 fresh COVID-19 cases, 255 deaths

With this, the country recorded its daily COVID-19 cases under one lakh for the 20th consecutive day

26 Feb 2022 11:15 AM IST

Before the closure of the Ukrainian airspace, Air India had conducted one flight to Ukrainian capital Kyiv on February 22 that brought 240 people back to India. (Representational image: PTI)

Air India plane departs from Mumbai to evacuate Indians stranded in...

Air India will operate more flights on Saturday to Bucharest and Hungarian capital Budapest to evacuate Indians stranded...

26 Feb 2022 10:44 AM IST

Indias Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti speaks at the UNSC (PTI file photo)

India abstains on UNSC resolution that deplores' Russian aggression...

New Delhi called for the immediate cessation of hostilities and asserted that dialogue is the only answer to settling...

26 Feb 2022 10:30 AM IST

Muslim women gather to participate in a march against banning Muslim girls wearing hijab from attending classes at some schools in Karnataka, in New Delhi. (AP File Photo)

After 11 days, Karnataka HC concludes 'hijab' hearing, reserves order

The Court dismissed a PIL seeking to restrain media from chasing hijab-clad students and teachers

26 Feb 2022 8:22 AM IST

A man walks past a building damaged following a rocket attack the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Ukraine's capital under threat as Russia presses invasion

Russia may be seeking to overthrow Ukraine's government, which U.S. officials have described as Putin's ultimate...

26 Feb 2022 7:26 AM IST

A Ukrainian firefighter walks between at fragments of a downed aircraft seen in in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo: AP)

Russia bans UK flights over its airspace after sanctions

Rosaviatsiya said that all flights by the U.K. carriers to Russia as well as transit flights are banned starting Friday

25 Feb 2022 2:48 PM IST

A girl wearing a mask walks near India Gate in New Delhi. A high number of children and adolescents are contracting the novel coronavirus in the second wave (Photo: PTI)

Over 1.9 million kids in India lost parent or caregiver to COVID-19:...

The new study suggests that globally, two out of three children orphaned from are adolescents aged 10 to 17 years

25 Feb 2022 12:48 PM IST

China is attempting to impose its agenda in Southeast Asia by establishing its Confucius Institutes (CIs). (Photo: ANI)

China using 'cultural appropriation' to expand soft borders: Report

Cultural appropriation happens when someone from one culture adopts another culture's style

25 Feb 2022 12:33 PM IST