March 13, 2024 01:36 am | Updated 01:36 am IST - NEW DELHI In a joint operation with Gujarat’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and the Coast Guard, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has seized 62 kg of methamphetamine in the Arabian Sea. “Six persons suspected to be Pakistani citizens have been …...Read More

March 13, 2024 01:15 am | Updated 02:58 am IST - New Delhi Hindu refugees from Pakistan on Tuesday welcomed the notification of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) rules even as an uneasy quiet pervaded Shaheen Bagh, which was the epicentre of protests against the legislation four years ago. Shaheen …...Read More

March 13, 2024 01:10 am | Updated 01:10 am IST - Bengaluru A 50-year-old realtor was found dead in a car parked on the side of the road near Bagalur Cross on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Krishna Yadav. According to the police, he had gone out of the …...Read More

March 13, 2024 12:57 am | Updated 12:57 am IST - NEW DELHI The Department of Pharmaceuticals issued the Uniform Code for Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP) 2024 on March 13, specifying the rules of the use of the words “safe’’ and “new’’ for drugs, and stated that medical representatives must …...Read More

March 13, 2024 12:15 am | Updated 12:16 am IST - NEW DELHI The government on March 12 gave Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra a six-month extension, till end-October 2024. The move by the government, in line with some of the other extensions given to senior bureaucrats understood to enable …...Read More

March 13, 2024 12:07 am | Updated 12:07 am IST - NEW DELHI At least 80 pro-Khalistan protesters raised derogatory slogans when Indian High Commissioner to Canada Sanjay Kumar Verma attended an event organised by the Indo-Canadian Chamber of Commerce (ICCC) in Edmonton on March 11. The event had earlier …...Read More

March 13, 2024 12:01 am | Updated 12:01 am IST - CHENNAI M.O.P.Vaishnav College for Women organised a geopolitical symposium in the city on Monday. S. Koventhan, Regional Passport Officer, Chennai, indicated India’s movement to be a global power, given its current growth path, while inaugurating Vichintya - The Geopolitical …...Read More

March 12, 2024 11:49 pm | Updated 11:49 pm IST - CHENNAI Tamil Nadu BJP president K. Annamalai on Tuesday defended the notification of Citizenship Amendment Act and its implementation by the Central government on religious grounds in the wake of strong criticism against it in Tamil Nadu. He urged …...Read More

March 12, 2024 11:30 pm | Updated 11:31 pm IST - New Delhi Twenty four writers, including English author Neelum Saran Gaur and Hindi novelist Sanjeev, received the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2023 here on March 12. The award ceremony coincided with the 70th anniversary celebrations of the National Academy …...Read More

Sir Keir Starmer has promised Dame Esther Rantzen that he will allow a vote on assisted dying in the next parliament if he wins the next election. The Labour leader made the pledge following recent interventions by the broadcaster, who recently revealed she had joined the Dignitas assisted dying clinic …...Read More