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Lieutenant General Baggavalli Somashekar Raju. By arrangement

Lt. Gen. B.S. Raju to take over as army vice-chief

Lt. Gen. Raju's appointment is one of rare instances as he has been promoted as Vice Chief without heading any of Army's...

30 April 2022 9:48 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the inaugural session of Semi-con India Conference in Bengaluru, through video conferencing, in New Delhi, Friday, April 29, 2022. (PTI Photo)

India has world's fastest growing start-up eco-system: Modi

The PM underlined that the country is investing heavily in skilling and training young Indians for the needs of the 21st...

30 April 2022 7:36 AM IST

Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and others at the Chief Justices conference in New Delhi, on Friday. (Photo: D. Kamraj)

Recommend names for HC judges, CJI urges CJs

Ramana expressed satisfaction that in less than a year 126 judges had been appointed to different High Courts

30 April 2022 2:15 AM IST

Mahinda Rajapaksa, left, and his brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa wave to supporters during a party convention held to announce the presidential candidacy in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (AP file photo)

Lawmaker: Sri Lanka president agrees to remove brother as PM

Gotabaya agreed that a national council will be appointed to name a new prime minister and Cabinet comprised of all...

30 April 2022 2:00 AM IST

According to last months data from Chinas General Administration of Customs (GAC), the India-China bilateral trade totalled USD 114.263 billion, up 46.4 per cent year-on-year from January to November 2021. (PTI Photo)

China may issue visas to 'some' Indian students

Eligible students to bear cost of preventing Covid, follow curb

30 April 2022 1:11 AM IST

Photo: Biplab Banerjee Location courtesy: Oxford Bookstore, Delhi.

Farrukh Dhondy | On returning to bookshops; challenges on social media

Will the cautionary lifting of Covid-19 restrictions bring book buyers back to the bookshops to savour the browsing...

29 April 2022 11:55 PM IST

While all languages of the nation can aspire to link people of different regions, Hindi cannot claim a sole right to be the sole alternative to English, which by definition is as much an official Indian language as Hindi. (Pixabay)

AA EDIT | India has many languages

By repeating ad nauseam their preference for Hindi, some politicians of national parties are only driving a wedge

29 April 2022 11:39 PM IST

Delhi is witnessing an uptick in the number of COVID-19 cases. The city logged 1,042 fresh Covid cases with a positivity rate of 4.64 per cent on Friday. (PTI file image)

AA EDIT | Covid: Caution mandated, India not out of the woods

It is time state governments rewired the mechanism of tracking and testing along with genome testing of the positive...

29 April 2022 11:27 PM IST

Most of our Muslim brethren have observed the holy month of Ramzan, keeping rozas and praying for peace. (AP Photo)

Shobhaa De | As Id nears, stories of hope amid a toxic climate of fear

This has been one of the hottest months in recent history, and I am not talking about the heatstroke inducing...

29 April 2022 11:21 PM IST

After addressing the public rally in Karbi Anglong the PM was flown to Dibrugarh where he inaugurated a cancer care centre in Assams Dibrugarh district. It has been developed by Assam Cancer Care Foundation (ACCF), a joint venture of the Assam government and Tata Trusts. PTI

PM promises to remove AFSPA if NE normalises

We are changing rules. AFSPA is removed from some areas because there is peace, Modi said

29 April 2022 1:38 AM IST

Elon Musk-led SpaceXs satellite broadband arm Starlink said that its service is available in many countries and it will be easier for it to get government approvals if it has a high number of pre-orders from India. (AFP Photo)

AA Edit | Musk's Twitter policy unreliable

The problem is Mr Musk is not thought of as a solution to any of the imagined woes against Twitter

29 April 2022 12:35 AM IST

Air Chief Marshal V.R. Chaudhari speaking at a seminar on logistics, organised by IAF on the theme Orchestrating Logistics Support for Air Combat Operations. (Photo: Twitter)

Air Chief says IAF must be ready for small, intense ops at short...

This new paradigm of high-intensity ops, coupled with minimal build-up time will require major operation logistics...

29 April 2022 12:26 AM IST