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India's "deft and impactful diplomacy" at the recent IAEA general conference in Vienna was one of the reasons that forced China to withdraw a resolution against Aukus, a security-focused Australia, UK and US initiative that seeks to arm Australia with N-powered submarines. "India's considered role helped many smaller countries take a clear stand on the Chinese proposal," said a source. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/WqrVhRo

With Mallikarjun Kharge set to become the Congress president, former finance minister P Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh are in the race to succeed him as leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, with Singh's nose seemingly ahead. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/UKLm1Ph

The four-month monsoon season officially ended on Friday with the country recording "above normal" rainfall at 6% higher than the long period average. However, skewed distribution in the crucial July-August period left large rain deficits in the Gangetic plains, leading to about 1% decline in the overall acreage of kharif (summer sown) crops as compared to last year. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/KUybFHc

It is Mallikarjun Kharge vs Shashi Tharoor for the much-awaited Congress presidential election. Octogenarian Kharge, the establishment's choice, and Tharoor, the underdog diplomat-turned-politician, filed their nomination papers on the last day on Friday, setting to rest the two-month-long speculation. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/U3HOA4E

Two Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists were killed in a shootout with a combined team of Army, CRPF and J&K police in the Pattan area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Friday. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/OBxjLJg

The noise inside Vande Bharat train is 100 times less than that in an airplane, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday after travelling in the indigenously designed train. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/wJXDaLb

Abdullah's elder brother Asif told police that he was inside the house when the firing took place. He said he came out of the house only to see his brother lying in a pool of blood. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/NHE6DYL

Rajasthan health minister Parsadi Lal Meena had said on Wednesday that MLAs who stayed with Congress during Sachin Pilot's revolt against CM Ashok Gehlot wouldn't accept anyone from that camp. Pilot, along with 18 MLAs, had mounted a challenge to the CM's leadership in July 2020. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/oYIAqRs

The Kerala HC Thursday directed the now-banned Popular Front of India (PFI) to deposit Rs 5.2 crore in two weeks to compensate for damage caused to assets of the state road transport corporation during an illegal flash strike. The division bench also ordered the state to make PFI state secretary Abdul Sattar an accused in all cases registered in the state. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/bKCT1QI

Other PFI activists who were radicalised in IS ideology chose to travel to Iraq or Syria by taking a circuitous route via Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Iran or Turkey to avoid suspicion. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/BXZ60ku

Attributing the inexorably long visa waiting period to the impact of Covid, the US embassy in Delhi said staffing should be back to 100% of pre-Covid level in less than a year. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ulaVFGH

With this, the total number of such reserves in UP will go up to four, including the Dudhwa tiger reserve in Lakhimpur district, Pilibhit tiger reserve and Amangarh tiger reserve (a buffer zone of the Corbett tiger reserve) in Bijnor. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/JVLca2K

As the race was thrown open, Congress was finalising a replacement candidate for Gehlot, with Mallikarjun Kharge, a senior Dalit leader, as the lead contender. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/s1oLl3E

Digvijaya's entry in the race triggered excitement with some saying the veteran has the profile and is a bigger name than Tharoor - a factor that would be crucial if it turns out to be an "open contest" without a leader with the Congress chief's backing. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/IBqZ1nr

The announcement spar- ked fresh buzz about whether Gehlot will continue in the CM's post or will be eased out, and if his replacement will be his bete noire Pilot. It is felt that AICC may call another legislature party meeting in Jaipur. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/WoThHfD

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TOI has learned that SDPI was spared as it is a registered political party, swearing allegiance to the Constitution of India. An officer said that SDPI, as long as it indulges in democratic activities by legal means, may not warrant a ban or crackdown. inside flap from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/Zt3HJq1

After the public appreciation by the West of India's renewed push for an end to the hostilities in Ukraine, the US is hoping India will back a resolution in the UNSC to condemn the referendums Russia is holding in Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine and also Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/PwKG915

Even as the disengagement process in eastern Ladakh remains incomplete, China has claimed the phase of "emergency response" that started with the Galwan clash in June 2022 had "basically" come to an end, and that the border situation is now switching to "normalised management and control". from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/FXGI59U

Continuing its crackdown on terror funding, the State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Tuesday conducted raids at different locations in Poonch and Rajouri districts of J&K. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/XLgqrDf

​​ An FIR has been registered against the unknown car driver, who fled from the spot, at Nagina Police Station, and police took the SUV in custody, they said. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/2UAP7Iz

Lt-Gen Chauhan (61), currently the military advisor to national security advisor Ajit Doval and the National Security Council Secretariat, will now have to spearhead the entire process to build an integrated war-fighting machinery within budgetary constraints through the creation of theatre commands and other structures. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/F017Xv4

External affairs minister S Jaishankar has raised the issue of the huge backlog of US visa applications from India with secretary of state Antony Blinken to which the top American diplomat said he is sensitive to the matter and has a plan to address it.Blinken blamed the Covid-19 pandemic for a backlog of visa applications from Indian nationals. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/O1I3mHs

The Speaker of a legislative assembly does not have the power to take away the status of former MLA while deciding a disqualification plea against a lawmaker under the 10th schedule of the Constitution, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday. A bench headed by Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit restored the status of former MLAs to the four disqualified lawmakers, and consequently, they will be entitled to pension and other benefits. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/38PWSsT

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The jail administration in Uttarakhand's Haldwani has come up with a unique idea to help people ward off "bad karma" - for a nominal fee of Rs 500 per night in prison. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/gQO1XUj

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday distanced himself from the alleged "parallel meeting" at cabinet colleague Shanti Dhariwal's residence in the run-up to the mass resignations that scuttled Sunday night's CLP meeting, saying that MLAs supposedly loyal to him gathered there without his knowledge and that he never intended to deviate from what the Congress high command wanted him to do. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/SLYDzAe

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​​The plantation came a day after a Tyagi community leader threatened demonstrations if the trees were not planted at the same place within 48 hours. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/TiPM5KF

"We have been offered three-four shops to open vends at the domestic terminals of the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport. A couple of those shops are suitable for large-sized premium vends with a floor area of more than 1,000 square feet," the officer said. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/ADwVM1U

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The average GFR in India stood at 86.1 from 2008 to 2010 (three-year period) and has come down to 68.7 during 2018-20 (average of three years), according to the Sample Registration System (SRS) data 2020 released recently. The decline, SRS data show, has been steeper in rural areas at 20.2% compared to 15.6% in urban areas. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/SdOTN3H

Minister and Ashok Gehlot loyalist Shanti Dhariwal alleged a “100% conspiracy” against the CM by Ajay Maken and Sachin Pilot. Accusing Maken of approaching MLAs to campaign for Pilot as the next CM, Dhariwal said he had proof to back his allegation. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/UsTGAeJ

A Pakistani military helicopter crashed during a nightly mission in Harnai district of restive Balochistan province in the country’s southwest late Sunday, killing all six on board, including two majors flying the aircraft. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/5ShjT1s

Former J&K CM Ghulam Nabi Azad launched his Democratic Azad Party with a nod to the "ideals of Mahatma Gandhi" in Jammu on Monday, exactly a month to the day he quit Congress with a critique of how the grand old party he had been part of for five decades "reached the point of no return". from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/yvTSFj2

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The woman, 30, managed to lock the accused in a room and called 112, they said. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/LXociEn

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Popular Front of India (PFI) officebearers, many of whom have been in detention, used Abu Dhabi’s Darbar restaurant as the den for all hawala transactions and their illegal transfer to India, ED has said. This is contrary to the claims made by PFI that most of the Rs 120 crore it had received came through petty cash donations in India. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/IEfqMWA

If Gehlot does contest the internal polls, then many believe the message would be that the so-called revolt was actually a "fixed match" between the Central and state brass to demonstrate who among the aspirants had the acceptability to lead the party in Rajasthan. But if Gehlot backs out, then it would be seen as a genuine revolt whereby the state leadership virtually seceded from the already weakened high command, and refused to accept its writ. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/sb5t3hS

The family of 19-year-old Ankita Bhandari, whose brutal murder rocked Uttarakhand, cremated her body in Srinagar in Pauri Garhwal on Sunday evening. Earlier on Sunday, Ankita’s father refused to cremate her body, demanding the full post-mortem examination report. ​​The post-mortem examination was conducted on Saturday by a panel of doctors from AIIMS, Rishikesh. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/QYUjmpd

Legislators and ministers loyal to Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot made a beeline for the assembly speaker’s residence late Sunday to resign en masse ahead of a scheduled CLP meeting, seeking to preempt the possibility of the Congress high command from picking his bete noire Sachin Pilot for chief ministership. Cabinet minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas said 92 of Congress' 108 MLAs were at speaker CP Joshi’s door. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/7lVkwQb

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India can scale up production of the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft to meet operational requirements and export orders, defence ministry officials said. The single-engine Tejas fighter is already the frontrunner to bag a Malaysian order for 18 light twin-seat fighter trainers despite strong competition from Chinese JF-17, South Korean FA-50 and Russian MiG-35 and Yak-130 jets. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/asNJhfQ

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Masked supporters of PFI unleashed a "planned violent guerrilla strike" during Friday's statewide protest called by the outfit, Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Saturday. An NIA special court in Kochi sent 11 PFI functionaries to the central agency's custody till September 30. UP Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) Saturday arrested six members of PFI from Varanasi and Meerut under UAPA. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/TYulh1O

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The CBI on Saturday filed two FIRs and conducted pan-India raids at 59 locations in 21 states on the basis of inputs given by the Interpol's units in New Zealand and Singapore regarding online circulation and distribution of child sexual abuse material. The raids were carried out after around 75 individuals were traced and identified using internet protocol details records analysis of their devices. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/AyZ9eMi

Rajasthan CLP will meet on Sunday, in what appears to be an exercise to pick the successor of CM Ashok Gehlot, the putative AICC president. The core issue is if Gehlot will have to relinquish the CM’s post, and if Sachin Pilot will replace him. Pilot is also the choice of the leadership. But the party has to negotiate the CM’s preference, and the legislature party in which Gehlot has an absolute support. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/cvhRVbe

The home minister reviewed the issues while taking a review meeting of India's all three border guarding forces-- Border Security Force (BSF), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)-- at Bihar' Kishanganj district during his two-day visit to the state. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/SdD7uYZ

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The government said there had been a sharp increase in hate crimes, sectarian violence and anti-India activities in Canada and that the perpetrators had not been brought to justice so far. India reacted strongly to the so-called "Khalistan referendum" in Canada, saying it was "deeply objectionable" that such a "politically motivated" activity by extremist elements was allowed to take place in a friendly country. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/QKgInCL