PUNE: India’s summer heatwaves – the humid, suffocating kind that impact more than dry heat – are not just getting more frequent, but also more intense through a now-identified specific atmospheric chain reaction. A Jan 2026 study by scientists from IMD and Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune, published in the Journal of the…
Scheduled Tribe members adhering to Hindu customs are not barred from the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Chhattisgarh High Court ruled. The court set aside a family court’s rejection of a mutual divorce petition, stating that those who voluntarily follow Hindu rites cannot be excluded. RAIPUR: Members of the scheduled tribe (ST) community who follow Hindu…
File photo: Nishant Kumar NEW DELHI: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar is a rare regional heavyweight who has been vocal in his disdain of dynastic politics and made it a point to keep his family members, including his only son Nishant, out of any limelight. As politics would have it, Nishant is now being seen by…
File photo: PM Modi with French President Macron NEW DELHI: India continued to engage the international community over the situation in West Asia region as PM Modi on Thursday spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron, reiterating the need for a return to dialogue and diplomacy.After his telephonic conversation with Macron, the PM said they will…
JDU workers protest against Nitish Kumar filing his nomination for Rajya Sabha, outside the CM’s residence in Patna on Thursday NEW DELHI: As the nomination process for Rajya Sabha elections spread across 10 states ended on Thursday, moves for new political alignments, including a rare BJD-Congress tie-up in Odisha and unity of BJP’s rivals in…
File photo: BJP’s Amit Malviya NEW DELHI: Blaming India for the US strike on Iranian naval vessel IRIS Dena was both illogical and misleading, the BJP said on Thursday as Congress took a swipe at govt over the attack on the warship that was returning after participating in a naval exercise in India.BJP noted that…
File photo: National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah SRINAGAR: A court in Kashmir has dismissed an application by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seeking to add charges against National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah and others in the Jammu & Kashmir cricket association (JKCA) scam case. The court said ED cannot be made party to a…
BENGALURU: State-run defence electronics major Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has signed a memorandum of understanding with space technology startup Bellatrix Aerospace to jointly design, develop and manufacture satellite systems and payloads, with a focus on the emerging very low Earth orbit (VLEO) regime.“The agreement aims to combine BEL’s experience in mission-critical electronics and defence payloads…
IAF Su-30 MKI (File photo) NEW DELHI: A Sukhoi Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) has lost radar contact in Assam, officials said on Thursday, adding that an IAF team has been dispatched to determine the circumstances.“An IAF Su-30 MKI is reported overdue. The aircraft had taken off from Jorhat, Assam…
NEW DELHI: The BJP is on the threshold of a historic first in Bihar. After a long wait – spanning first the Lalu era and then the Nitish era in Bihar – the saffron party is all set to get its first chief minister in the state. This follows JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar’s “voluntary decision”…