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Farmers on their tractors move towards Delhi during their rally on Republic Day, at Singhu border in New Delhi, Tuesday, January 26, 2021. (PTI/Shahbaz Khan)

Singhu border: Farmers improve facilities, infrastructure to prepare...

100 CCTV cameras with digital video recorders are being installed at the main stage used by the Morcha

11 Feb 2021 6:49 PM IST

Members of a Chinese surveying team head for the summit of Mount Everest, also known locally as Mt. Qomolangma. China and Nepal have jointly announced on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, a new height for Mount Everest, ending a discrepancy between the two nations. (AP)

Nepal bans three Indian climbers for six years for faking Mt Everest...

The climbers had received the certificates of climbing the 8,848.86m mountain by submitting false details to the...

11 Feb 2021 6:18 PM IST

The positions for temporary global customer service staff at Amazon are open in Hyderabad, Pune, Coimbatore, Noida, Kolkata, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Mangaluru, Indore, Bhopal and Lucknow. (Photo | AFP)

Amazon moves Supreme Court in Future-Reliance deal dispute

Justice Midha had directed FRL and other parties to maintain status quo till pronouncement of the reserved order

11 Feb 2021 5:35 PM IST

A scree capture of the migro-blogging app, Koo

Koo crosses 3 million users, popularity surges amid Twitter row

The company is strongly positioning the app as part of India's self-reliant journey

11 Feb 2021 5:15 PM IST

Chinese troops made a second failed attempt on Monday to capture the peaks on the southern banks of Pangong Tso. (PTI Photo)

India, China reach pact to pull back troops in Pangong lake areas in...

India and China have reached an agreement on disengagement

11 Feb 2021 4:39 PM IST

State Department spokesman Ned Price speaks during a press briefing at the State Department in Washington, DC, on February 9, 2021. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP)

No change in policy on Jammu and Kashmir, says US

A longstanding goal of US policy in South Asia has been to prevent India-Pakistan conflict from escalating to interstate...

11 Feb 2021 10:27 AM IST

Koo is a Twitter-like micro-blogging platform which allows users to post multimedia content, including audio clips. (by arrangement)

Explainer: The Indian Twitter rival staging a Koo

Twitter has locked horns with New Delhi this month over the order to remove more than 1,100 accounts and posts on farmer...

11 Feb 2021 10:03 AM IST

An extremely emotional speeches by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Rajya Sabha Opposition Leader Ghulam Nabi Azad of the Congress, it augured well for a sense of dignity and decorum to be ushered back into Indias increasingly polarised polity. (Photo:PTI)

AA Edit | Modi & Azad: Civility back

Not often in the recent past has Parliament been invaded by an outbreak of civility

11 Feb 2021 4:47 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | NGT hauls up Kerala govt for ignoring legacy waste'...

The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar is moving ahead with its announcement last year of retiring identified inefficient...

11 Feb 2021 4:36 AM IST

Petrol price was hiked by 30 paise per litre and diesel by 25 paise a litre, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. (Representational Photo:PTI)

Petrol, diesel prices at fresh highs as rates up for 2nd straight day

The increase took petrol price to an all-time high of Rs 87.60 a litre in Delhi and to Rs 94.12 in Mumbai

11 Feb 2021 4:34 AM IST

Despite his stated belief in the concept of less government and more governance , Prime Minister Narendra Modi had done very little in terms of reducing the governments ownership of companies. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | To save public money, start to disinvest fast

This move reaffirms the government's intent, announced last year, to exit all non-strategic sectors

11 Feb 2021 4:27 AM IST

The state government has pointed out that Andhra Pradesh took the unilateral decision on holding panchayat polls even as the border dispute involving Kotia is sub-judice in the Supreme Court since December 1, 1968.

PIL in Odisha seeks to stop AP from holding panchayat polls in Kotia...

The Kotia dispute is a long-pending border issue between Andhra Pradesh and Odisha

11 Feb 2021 4:18 AM IST