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NEW DELHI: Indian family’s desire for sons over daughters, ostensibly to carry on the family lineage, remains strong even in this age. While various government efforts, including the central government’s Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao, have helped spread awareness about the girl child, the age-old habits refuse to die soon. The recently published data from the […]

NEW DELHI: Former finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday stressed that the state of the Indian economy is a cause of “extreme concern” as the post-pandemic recovery has been indifferent and said that a reset of economic policy is the need of the hour. Addressing a press conference on the second […]

NEW DELHI: The Indian Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine will resume its operation on Tuesday, the Ministry of External Affairs informed on Friday. The Indian mission is presently functioning from Warsaw, Poland. In the very first week of March, the Indian embassy in Kyiv was shut down, and all the diplomats and mission staffers were shifted […]

NEW DELHI: At least 27 people died while several others were injured after a massive fire broke out at a four-storey building in outer Delhi’s Mundka area on Friday. According to the fire department officials, 27 fire tenders are at the spot to douse the flames. A fire official told The New Indian, “A call […]

NEW DELHI: Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, Union minister of state for external affairs and education, and Dr Kung Phoak, secretary of state of the ministry of foreign affairs and international cooperation, Cambodia discussed collaboration in the sphere of health, vaccines, climate change and supply chain resilience at the 7th roundtable of ASEAN-India Network of Think […]