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NEW DELHI: Raghopur seat is poised for a fierce three-way contest between RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, BJP’s Satish Kumar and JanSuraaj’s Chanchal Kumar as the constituency awaits results today.Polling has concluded and the fate of the candidates is now sealed in the electronic voting machines. The constituency recorded 68.54 per cent turnout, according to election officials….

Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami NEW DELHI: The Uttarakhand government plans to open a medical college in every district, chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said on Thursday. The move is aimed at increasing the state’s medical education capacity and improving healthcare access.Chief minister Dhami said the government is working to make Uttarakhand self-reliant in medical…

Tejashwi Yadav and Nitish Kumar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Leaders across party lines in Bihar went into overdrive on Thursday as the state prepared for the vote counting of the high-stakes assembly election on Friday that will decide whether chief minister Nitish Kumar secures a record fifth term in office.RJD leader and INDIA bloc’s CM…

Representative image (AI-generated) NEW DELHI: Seeking to ensure farmers’ access to high-quality seeds at affordable rates and curb the sale of spurious and poor-quality seeds, the Centre has proposed a new legislation and circulated a draft bill to this effect to replace the existing laws.The proposed legislation, Seeds Bill, 2025, is expected to be introduced…

The investigation into the deadly Red Fort blast that killed 13 people on November 10 has unveiled a chilling web of terror networks spanning Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Kashmir. As agencies sift through CCTV footage, encrypted chats, and forensic trails, a clearer picture is emerging of how a group of educated professionals allegedly plotted…

US secretary of state Marco Rubio NEW DELHI: United States secretary of state Marco Rubio on Thursday said the repercussion of the Delhi car bomb blast has the “potential of becoming something broader” as he acknowledged the explosion near Red Fort was a “heinous terror incident.”Rubio has said the Hyundai i20 explosion near Red Fort…

In Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb grimly predicts that once America splits the atom, others will inevitably follow. His prophecy came true. The Soviets, the British, the French, and then the Chinese, all rushed to wield the fire of creation as an instrument of war. India, decades later, joined that fateful…

NEW DELHI: The Association of All Indian Universities (AIU) suspended Al-Falah University’s membership on Thursday after its doctors were detained in the Delhi blast case.In an official notification, the university cited a ‘lack of good standing’ for the suspension.It said, “as per the Bye-laws of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), all universities shall be…

NEW DELHI: Six people were killed and at least eight others were injured in a road accident near Navale Bridge on the Pune–Bengaluru Highway on Thursday evening. According to officials, a container truck lost control and rammed into multiple vehicles. Two to three heavy vehicles caught fire following the collision.Videos from the scene showed a…

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said that the growing culture of loyalty to political leaders over commitment to ideas and principles is weakening India’s democracy. Without naming any individual or party, his remarks appeared to question the trend of leader-centric politics – including within his own party.“Each party’s insistence on loyalty to…