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US President Donald Trump (left) and Justice Yashwant Varma (AP) The United States early on Sunday launched strikes on three key Iranian nuclear and military facilities, escalating the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran.President Donald Trump called the operation “very successful,” confirming that the targets included Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan, with Fordow identified as the…

NEW DELHI: The next phase of central assistance (seed funding) for states to take up transformative projects under the Rs 1 lakh crore Urban Challenge Fund (UCF) will focus more on revitalising core areas of cities and fixing legacy infrastructure gaps, such as bad drainage, sanitation and polluted water bodies.Officials said the focus of this…

NEW DELHI: Amplifying his attacks on the Election Commission for not providing the voters’ lists of Maharashtra as sought by Congress, leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said the poll watchdog’s fresh decision to destroy videos of various stages of election process in 45 days instead of one year is another evidence that…

English is “empowering” not “shameful” and it is a tool to break the chains, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said following home minister Amit Shah‘s reported remarks on English. On Friday, Rahul on X also said, “English is not a chain – it is a tool to break the chains.” “In today’s world, English is…

AGRA: A Pocso court in Aligarh sentenced a man, in his late 30s, to life imprisonment for raping and physically assaulting an eight-year-old girl on Nov 16, 2020, near a brick kiln, where he worked and the survivor’s family lived. Court found Shailesh Manjhi, of Bihar’s Nalanda district, guilty under IPC sections 376 (rape), 323…

Indians, who were staying in Iran, evacuated safely from war torn country Iran NEW DELHI: While 827 Indian nationals were back from Iran by Saturday evening, 800 more had approached the Indian embassy in Tehran for evacuation. The number of evacuees, in fact, was expected to exceed 1,100 with 300 more scheduled to arrive in…

PUNE: The India Meteorological Department on Saturday issued a comprehensive rainfall warning of extremely heavy to very heavy rainfall (red and orange alerts) across several states over the next week. Heavy precipitation exceeding 200mm in 24 hours has been forecast for isolated areas in Madhya Pradesh on June 23, with Konkan, Goa, Madhya Maharashtra and…

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) DIBRUGARH: Three veteran well control specialists from Cudd Well Control, US, began intensive site preparations on Saturday to bring under control a massive gas blowout of ONGC’s Rudrasagar (RDS147A) rig in Assam’s Sivasagar district.The experts, who flew in from Houston, arrived in Sivasagar on Friday after multiple attempts by…

National Conference’s Farfooq Abdullah SRINAGAR: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah blamed the “dual power structure” in the Union territory for the slow pace of development and warned that his party would move SC if statehood isn’t restored soon. It is the first time NC has openly threatened legal action on restoration of statehood for Jammu…

Bajirao, a five-year-old male tiger who gained notoriety for attacking villagers, was rescued from forests of Seoni district by Madhya Pradesh forest department staff and transferred to a secure facility Saturday, reports P Naveen.The tiger allegedly attacked and killed a tribal man, Sumit Pandare, 18, a resident of Bawanthadi village on Friday while he ventured…