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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel with Mahatma Gandhi and Anshul Bhatt with chess legend Viswanathan Anand NEW DELHI: As a young barrister in Ahmedabad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel spent his evenings at the Gujarat Club, where he would play bridge and smoke cigars, and it was there that he first heard about a man named Gandhi returning from…

Over the next several hundred million years, Earth could face numerous unexpected consequences, all due to the distance slowly yet steadily developing between the planet and its only moon. In what is coming to be defined as one of the most precisely known physical quantities in all of contemporary planetary science, the Moon is moving…

Protesters allegedly hurled stones and bottles at security personnel deployed near Tolstoy Marg NEW DELHI: Fresh violence erupted during the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) protest in the national capital on Wednesday evening, with an assistant commissioner of police (ACP) injured after miscreants allegedly attacked police personnel with stones and bottles in Connaught Place.According to Delhi…

Ferran Torres World Cup mural vandalised in Barcelona A mural celebrating Spain’s World Cup-winning hero Ferran Torres was vandalised less than 24 hours after it appeared in Barcelona, according to a report from Spanish outlet Dairo AS. The artwork, created by Barcelona-based street artist TVBoy in the city’s Gràcia neighbourhood, honoured Torres after he scored…

A total of 125 Indian athletes will compete at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, which will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, from July 23 to August 2. The squad includes 77 male and 48 female athletes across sports disciplines, including para sports.India will be represented across 13 disciplines – eight able-bodied sports and five para-sports –…

The leader of opposition in Lok Sabha also reiterated the demands raised by protesting students NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his announcement that fast-track courts would be set up to deal with paper leak cases.In a post on X, Rahul Gandhi rejected PM Modi’s…

AI generated image used for representational purpose NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court has rejected a woman’s plea for interim maintenance of Rs 1 lakh a month from her estranged husband, ruling that simply saying life is expensive abroad is not, on its own, a good enough reason to get maintenance and especially when the…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced that the Centre will set up fast-track courts to ensure the speedy trial and stringent punishment of those involved in paper leak cases, asserting that protecting students’ future remains the government’s top priority.In a post on X, the Prime Minister said, “Nothing…

Harmanveer Singh (Picture from FBI X handle) The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested Indian national Harmanveer Singh for his alleged role in a transnational drug trafficking network linked to the Canada-based organised crime group led by Ravinder Dhanda.Singh was taken into custody in California’s Stockton, on Tuesday by officers of the California Highway…

India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Parvathaneni Harish (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday once again hit out at Pakistan over its continued use of crossborder terrorism, accusing Islamabad of employing terrorism as a “tool of state policy”. New Delhi also reiterated that Jammu and Kashmir “has always been, is, and will…