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Anahat Singh’s first reaction after winning the World Junior Squash Championship was not about what the title might do to her profile.This was her last year in the junior circuit, and after years of playing squash, she finally had the title she wanted before moving fully into senior competition.“I think it’s a good way to…

NEW DELHI: Union council of ministers will meet at a Chintan Shivir Wednesday and Thursday to chart govt’s “next set of ideas, reforms and priorities” focused on Viksit Bharat@2047 and review progress of key programmes. PM Narendra Modi will chair the two-day brainstorming session.Ahead of the session at Seva Teerth (PMO), Modi directed ministries to…

Lakhimpur Kheri violence: SC asks UP to appoint senior prosecutor; seeks sealed-cover HC report on trial judge’s handling of case NEW DELHI: Giving a twist to the five-year-old Lakhimpur Kheri case in which Asish Mishra, the son of former Union minister Ajay Mishra, is accused of mowing down four protesting farmers with his vehicle, advocate…

Union minister Amit Shah presents the Best ANTF trophy to Telangana EAGLE Force director Sandeep Shandilya during the third National Conference of Anti-Narcotics Task Force heads of states and UTs in Delhi Tuesday. Union home secretary Govind Mohan was also present NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah Tuesday said India’s war on drugs will…

Kushner, Witkoff hold 3-hour meeting with Iran mediators amid Trump’s threats US President Donald Trump said US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were part of the American team that met with Iranian officials and mediators in New York, with the talks lasting around three hours as Washington and Tehran face renewed pressure to…

SC disagreed with the suggestion that the recognition of all six stanzas was not in concord with a ‘secular’ Constitution. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to examine the legality of penal consequences if a person does not sing the national song due to religious beliefs or conscientious objection, but declined to adjudicate whether…

Union civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu NEW DELHI: Govt is weighing the pros and cons of allowing airport operators such as Adani Group, which operates Mumbai Airport, to run an airline, although no decision has been taken yet. The Delhi and Mumbai airports went the PPP way in 2006 and their “operation, management and…

If this is not extortion, then what is it, says SC on allowing retailers to overprice drugs NEW DELHI: Expressing shock over patients and their families being fleeced by pharma companies and retail medicine sellers, Supreme Court on Tuesday said the exorbitant prices charged was nothing but “dacoity” in broad daylight and questioned the govt’s…

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah speaks in the assembly during the autumn session, in Srinagar on Tuesday. (ANI Photo) SRINAGAR: J&K govt has pulled 4,249 books from public, school and college libraries, and sent another 1,752 titles for “expert examination” after screening more than 21.8 lakh books for “objectionable content” over the past…