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  NEW DELHI: Claiming that the slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqla was injured by Palestinian gunfire and not by Israel Defence Force (IDF), Israel urged Palestine to investigate the incident through a ‘joint pathological investigation’. Shireen Abu Aqla succumbed to bullet injuries during an operation by IDF, Israeli Security Authority and Israel Border […]

NEW DELHI: After five eventful years, Islamabad has named Qamar Zaman as a trade minister in the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi. The decision of appointing trade ministers to fifteen countries was taken in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. However, Pakistan is yet to appoint a High Commissioner for India. The […]

  RANCHI: Pooja Singhal, Jharkhand mining secretary, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the Rs 18 crore Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scam on Wednesday. The development comes after the financial probe agency questioned Singhal again for several hours at its Ranchi office along with her husband Abhishek Jha. […]

NEW DELHI: Hours after the Supreme Court put a stay on the sedition law, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said that speaking the truth is patriotism, not treason. Echoing the sentiments, the party said that speaking truth to power cannot be sedition but true nationalism. In a historic decision, the three-judge apex court bench of […]

NEW DELHI: Guidance available for young teenagers on informed decisions and good sexual health through school education may have dropped India’s teen pregnancy by a marginal 1 per cent, from six years ago, but conception among girls in Indian Muslim families has been reported at an alarming 8% rate, higher than any other religion in […]