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NEW DELHI: An Air India Express flight from Visakhapatnam to Hyderabad carrying 103 passengers made an emergency landing at the Vizag airport on Thursday after the pilot reported an engine problem, suspected to have been caused by a bird hit, officials said.Visakhapatnam Airport director S Raja Reddy confirmed that flight IX 2658, which took off…

NEW DELHI: New rules for online gaming will come into force from October 1, Union information and technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday.“We have had multiple discussions with them (online gaming companies and stakeholders)… and after passing the law, once again, we engaged with them,” Vaishnaw said. The government had also spoken to banks…

Paramjit Singh, a green card holder who has lived in the US for more than three decades, has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody for over a month after being stopped at Chicago O’Hare Airport on July 30.Singh, who runs a business in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was returning from India when he was…

NEW DELHI: A woman Naxalite, wanted in nine cases of violence and carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakh, was killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Thursday. The gun battle took place in the morning on a forested hill between Gufdi and Permapara villages under Gadiras police station limits….

A groundbreaking study published in Geophysical Research Letters has revealed that rocks deep within the Earth’s lower mantle can undergo dynamic transformations, carrying major implications for both earthquakes and the planet’s magnetic field. Nearly 2,900 kilometres below the surface, scientists detected a mysterious change at the core–mantle boundary using data from NASA and Germany’s GRACE…

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Pakistan-Saudi Arabia defence pact, calling it a matter of grave concern for India’s security and another failure of what it described as “personality-driven diplomacy.”Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, in a post on X, said, “One month after abruptly halting Operation Sindoor, President Trump…

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi escalated his attack on Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar hours after the poll body “fact-checked” the Congress leader’s new claims on his “vote chori” charge.Hitting back at Gyanesh Kumar, Rahul Gandhi accused the Election Commission chief of blocking the FIR and CID investigation into…

KS Alagiri (L), Kangana Ranuat (File photos) Congress leader KS Alagiri on Thursday triggered controversy after saying that actor and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut “should be slapped” if she visited Tamil Nadu.“A few months ago, when she went to an airport, a lady police officer slapped her. The police officer gave a reason that wherever…

CJI BR Gavai (File Photo) NEW DELHI: Reacting to the social media backlash over his “go ask your deity” remark, Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai on Thursday said: “I respect all religions”.On CJI Gavai’s remark, Solicitor General G Tushar Mehta, according to Bar & Bench, said: “We have seen this… There is Newton’s…