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Imran Masood, MP from Saharanpur, received a letter on Wednesday from a group of children asking the Congress leader to clean a local playground.The letter was posted by Qazi Hamza Masood, nephew of Imran Masood, on social media, who described the request as the “cutest application.”The group of children belonged to Masoodabad Colony, a locality…

NEW DELHI: Four Kanwar pilgrims were killed and several others injured after being hit by a car late Tuesday night on the Sheetla Mata highway in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior district.Gwalior’s chief superintendent of police Hina Khan said, “We got information that an incident has happened on the Sheetla Mata highway in which some Kanwar pilgrims…

NEW DELHI: “Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar ji has had many opportunities to serve our country in various capacities, including as Vice-President of India. Wishing him good health,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on X, shortly after President Droupadi Murmu accepted Dhankhar’s resignation.Going by sendoff messages for politicians, the post was starkly terse and conveyed the tension…

Preparations for NISAR mission NEW DELHI: The world’s most expensive earth observation satellite, NISAR, which has been jointly developed by Nasa and Isro, will be launched after much delay from the Sriharikota spaceport at 5.40pm on July 30, the Indian space agency has said. Both India and the US have been working on the Nasa-Isro…

jagdeep Dhankhar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Before he surprised political circles by announcing his resignation, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar alarmed Rashtrapati Bhavan officials by turning up to meet President Droupadi Murmu without an appointment.The protocol-driven President’s secretariat has not had to deal with such unexpected developments in a long time. Not surprisingly, the unscheduled arrival of…

JAMMU: A sessions court in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban on Monday sentenced two convicts to life imprisonment for the kidnapping and murder of a man in 2003.Mohd Mumtaz and Farooq Ahmed were held guilty of killing Mushtaq Ahmed Son after kidnapping him from his house in Gool valley late on Dec 16 in 2003.The court…

NEW DELHI: Jagdeep Dhankhar’s sudden resignation from the post of Vice President has triggered an unexpected wave of admiration from opposition MPs, many of whom had previously clashed with him over alleged partisanship.Several leaders who once accused Dhankhar of bias or filed a no-confidence motion against him are now urging him to reconsider his decision,…

Army gets the first 3 of the 6 Apache attack helicopters ordered from the US NEW DELHI: The`tanks in the air’ for the Army are finally here. Three of the six long-delayed Apache AH-64 attack helicopters, contracted under the Rs 5,691 crore deal with the US in Feb 2020, arrived in India on Tuesday.The three…

(Image credits: X @ChathamHouse) NEW DELHI: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares for his highly anticipated visit to the UK to formally sign the UK-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA), a new report by leading British think tank Chatham House is urging the UK government to broaden its Indo-Pacific strategy beyond the trade deal with India.In…

NEW DELHI: After serving for over six decades and participating in all major conflicts, the MiG-21 fighter jet is set to retire from the Indian Air Force, with a ceremonial farewell scheduled for September.The final MiG-21 jets, belonging to number 23 Squadron, known as the Panthers, will be retired on September 19 during a ceremony…