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NEW DELHI: Despite a slight dip in imports due to govt’s impetus on ‘Make-in-India’ weapons, India remains the world’s second-largest importer of major arms, accounting for 8.2% of the global share between 2021 and 2025, according to a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).The report also highlights a sharp decline in…
NEW DELHI: A day after an Iranian warship with 130 people on board was sunk by a US submarine in international waters off the Sri Lankan coast, killing 87 sailors, Iran’s foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Thursday warned that the US will “regret” its torpedo attack on frigate IRIS Dena, which, he said, came…
Sri Lanka evacuated 208 crew members of an Iranian Navy vessel on Thursday, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said, a day after a US submarine struck and sank another Iranian frigate under its Operation Epic Fury against the Islamic Republic.According to Dissanayake, Sri Lanka’s navy will also take over the second vessel and shift it to…
BADLAPUR: In the fourth case of sexual assault on minors in Badlapur since Sept 2024 and the second in just over a month, a 38-year-old school bus driver was arrested on Thursday for allegedly molesting a 12-year-old student.Thursday’s crime has reignited outrage among local residents who pointed to negligence by local schools in adhering to…
India vs Australia Live Score, 2nd Women ODI: With the multi-format series locked at 4-4, India elected to bat after winning the toss in the second ODI against Australia at Bellerive Oval today. The visitors are aiming to bounce back after Australia clinched the first ODI in Brisbane, and team changes reflected a tactical shift….
Ministry of home affairs. (File Photo) New Delhi: The Union home ministry on Friday constituted a second empowered committee for West Bengal to fast-track the processing of citizenship requests received under Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA). CAA provides for grant of citizenship to immigra-nts from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh belonging to their six minority faiths…
NEW DELHI: Tina Ambani, the wife of Anil Ambani of Reliance group, skipped her second date with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday. She did not appear at the agency’s headquarters here on a summons issued in connection with a money laundering probe. Tina was earlier summoned on Feb 9. Her husband has been summoned…
Chip Kaye, Chief Executive Founder, Warburg MUMBAI: Warburg Pincus’s global chairman Chip Kaye said India is one of the ‘best constructive ecosystems’ that the PE giant has built over the last 30 years that the US-headquartered private equity major has been in the country.In this period, Warburg Pincus had made 80 investments in India. In…
SHAHJAHANPUR: A young man and a woman jumped from the second floor of a pizza cafe in Shahjahanpur district on Saturday evening after they were allegedly accosted by members of a Hindu organisation, police sources told news agency PTI.According to PTI, both sustained serious injuries and were admitted to a private hospital, where they are…
Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Indian skipper Suryakumar Yadav said the hosts want their batters to play with freedom and express themselves, praising Ishan Kishan’s fearless strokeplay as a true reflection of the team’s mindset after India defeated New Zealand by seven wickets in the second T20I in Raipur on Friday.Despite…
