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A fortnight after the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized 3,000 kg of Afghan heroin worth approximately Rs 21,000 crore from two containers at Mundra port in Gujarat, DRI’s Lucknow and Noida units in a joint operation arrested the head of the drug cartel in India from Shimla.

As the suspense over the possibility of change in leadership in Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh continues, the political heat appears to be once again escalating in the state after over a dozen Congress...

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has expressed solidarity with India and called for strengthening economic ties between the two countries.

A young child and three adults were killed in a fiery smash on a motorway in Brisbane’s southwest on Wednesday night involving two vehicles. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/2ZIrkvj

Britney Spears' bid to end her father's controversial guardianship could reach its conclusion in a new court hearing in Los Angeles on Wednesday, after weeks of twists and turns -- and two major new documentaries about the pop star. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/3uqeE7J

US and EU officials on Wednesday pledged to join forces to deal with a host of technology and trade issues to secure semiconductor supplies and counter China's dominance. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/3ilqsDf

A woman has been stabbed to death in Melbourne’s southeast overnight. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/3CVWv4z

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought response from Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) to a year-and-half old complaint by a devotee of Lord Balaji that irregularities have crept into the daily “puja and archana” in the temple causing consternation among devotees of the principal deity.​

Breastfeeding is an inalienable constitutional right of a lactating mother and the right of the infant needs to be assimilated with the mother’s right, the Karnataka high court observed on Wednesday. It was disposing a batch of petitions filed by the biological mother and foster parents of a toddler.

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday scaled up the national mid-day meal scheme as ‘PM-POSHAN’ which will also cover students of ‘Balvatikas’ (pre-primary classes) and provide hot cooked meals to students of elementary classes in government and aided schools.

India is likely to send a three-member team to participate in a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) anti-terror exercise in Pakistan next week, TOI has learnt. The Pabbi anti-terror Exercise 2021 is being held at Pabbi in Pakistan’s Nowshera district from October 3 under the aegis of SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) which seeks to promote counter-terrorism cooperation between SCO member-states.

Creating political ground in an already politically heated state of Punjab with the Congress leadership in crisis, the AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday embarked on his 2-day visit to Ludhiana.

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Wednesday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the launch of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, and said this will help ensure equitable, accessible...

YouTube announced Wednesday it would remove videos and some high-profile users that falsely claim approved vaccines are dangerous, as social networks seek to crack down on health misinformation around Covid-19 and other diseases. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/3D1Zit9

BSF inspector general (Jammu frontier) N S Jamwal on Wednesday was promoted to the rank of additional director general (ADG) and posted to the prestigious Western Command in Chandigarh. Jamwal, a native of Jammu, has 37 years of professional experience working in different fields.

Above-normal rainfall this month, which turned out to be the second wettest September in the past 27 years, has almost bridged the deficit of the monsoon season with the cumulative rainfall showing the gap to be narrowed down from 9% on August 31 to merely 1% on Wednesday, indicating the four-month season may finally be logged as ‘near normal’ monsoon.

The curious case of Navjot Singh Sidhu’s resignation as Punjab PCC chief within 10 days of his bête noire Amarinder Singh’s exit as CM unravelled on Wednesday when he declared the new-look Congress government’s choice of advocate general and the re-entry of “tainted” ministers into the restructured cabinet forced his hand.

Jammu and Kashmir National Conference president and former chief minister Dr Farooq Abdullah was due to address the Hindus for Labour event at the Hilton Hotel, Brighton, via video link on Wednesday as its keynote speaker. TOI has seen a letter from him confirming he would address the conference.

The Bhabanipur legislative constituency of south Kolkata will today vote in a bypoll in which West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is contesting. She must win this election to retain her chair....

The Assam government will acquire the assets of two defunct paper mills of Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited and provide Rs 570 crore to its employees as part of a relief package according to an...

The National Investigation Agency has raised the reward against the five cadres of the Isak Muivah faction of National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM), involved in the killing of Arunachal...

Punjab Police Official Spokesperson on Wednesday trashed and termed all the allegations about giving clean chit to Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim case as bogus and baseless, the press note...

Tipplers in Delhi may face problems in getting their favourite brands in the next one-and-half months as around 40 per cent of liquor vends in the national capital that are run privately will shut...

Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi in his first portfolio allocation on Tuesday kept 14 departments with him — including the key responsibilities of vigilance, power and mining. The allocation, which Congress sources said was vetted by Rahul Gandhi, saw the seven new faces in the reconstituted cabinet being given charge of key departments.

Taking strict action against those involved in alleged suspicious activities and irregularities during the Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers (REET)-2021, the state government suspended...

Homegrown Covaxin was to play a major role in vaccination against Covid-19. But eight months after the vaccination drive began, only one in 11 Indians has managed to get the first indigenous vaccine. Bharat Biotech, which manufactures it, has failed to ramp up production at the pace it had envisaged.

Former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh arrived in Delhi on Tuesday amidst an intense buzz over a meeting with the BJP brass that might be a precursor to an alliance, even as his visit was termed as a personal one to meet “friends”.

In a switch hit that left Congress on a sticky wicket in Punjab again, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu quit as PCC chief on Tuesday, followed by the resignation of new minister Razia Sultana “in solidarity” with him. Gulzar Inder Singh Chahal, who was made PCC treasurer soon after Sidhu took over, also put in his papers along with general secretary Yoginder Dhingra.

Actor and TV personality Archana Puran Singh, who had replaced Navjot Singh Sidhu on ''The Kapil Sharma Show'', started to trend on the internet after the cricketer-turned-politician''s resignation as...

Every child in Delhi will be a patriot in the true sense, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal exuded as he launched the AAP government's ambitious ''Deshbhakti Curriculum'' on Tuesday.

A former Punjab Congress chief has criticised his party colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu over "breach of trust", hours after Mr Sidhu resigned as Punjab Congress chief barely two months into the job.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday urged the United Nations that post-pandemic policies must provide for adequate recognition of the mental wellbeing of vulnerable sections.

A 41-year-old deputy commandant-rank official of Jharkhand Jaguar, an anti-Maoist force of state police, was killed in an encounter in Latehar district on Tuesday, a senior official said.

At least 13 people died in heavy showers, floods and lightning in parts of Maharashtra with the Marathwada region bearing the brunt of rain fury, while more than 40 stranded villagers were rescued.

India will engage with all member states in a "spirit of openness" towards realising a nuclear weapons-free world, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Tuesday, reiterating that the goal...

A total of 77 people trapped in two villages in Beed district in Maharashtra amid heavy rains were rescued on Tuesday, officials said.

Actor Daniel Craig walked the red carpet for the final time as James Bond in rain-swept London on Tuesday, at the star-studded but much-delayed world premiere of the latest superspy blockbuster, "No Time To Die".  from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/2Wq1D1m

In the past 10 days, seven infiltrators from Pakistan were killed in separate anti-terror operations along the Line of Control (LoC) while one Lashkar-e-Taiba operative was caught alive in J&K’s Uri sector, GOC 19 Infantry Division Maj Gen Virendra Vats said on Tuesday, adding that Pakistan was itching to carry out a sensational terror strike in Kashmir.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat will embark on a four-day visit to Jammu, beginning September 30. A statement issued in this regard by Jammu Prant Karvahak stated that during his stay Bhagwat will participate in many programmes in the region. He had earlier visited Jammu in 2016.

A day after Dilip Ghosh demanded suspension of the upcoming by-poll for Bhabanipur constituency, BJP National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said that the possibility of a fair election in...

A POCSO court in Ghaziabad on Tuesday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and killing a seven-year-old girl, and imposed a pecuniary fine of Rs 1.5 lakh on the convict.

Two West Bengal trekkers of an 18-strong team died of extreme weather conditions near Khemenger Glacier in Himachal's mountains while 14 others are on their way back to safety after staying stranded...

Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said there is nothing wrong in changing parties but it should not be done just for the sake of power.

Barely hours after the remnant of Cyclone Gulab crossed the Odisha skies, the state is bracing up for another low pressure which is likely to dump by heavy rains in the state prompting the authorities...

The Delhi Pollution Control Committee on Monday issued showcause notices for closure to three hotels in the city for violating environmental norms.

The Supreme Court on Monday accused the National Medical Council, National Board of Examinations and the health ministry of “playing football” with the lives of young doctors aspiring to do their specialisation by changing the pattern of questions for the NEET-Super Speciality Examination more than a month after notifying the exam date.

Farm groups in Punjab, which have been at the forefront of the struggle against the Central farm laws, brought the state to near standstill on Monday as the Bharat bandh paralysed rail and road traffic, and business establishments were shut in all towns and cities. While the impact was less severe in Haryana, the western part of Uttar Pradesh saw some toll plazas being blocked and trains cancelled due to protests on tracks.

One can buy them on street corners, legally, for the price of a toy -- so-called non-lethal guns that nevertheless maim, and which proliferate in Colombia's crime-plagued cities. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/3ujhfzX

After an 18-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and protracted labor disputes with its musicians and crew, the Metropolitan Opera reopens Monday with a history-making debut -- the first work by a Black composer. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/3zLOmO4

The International Criminal Court's new prosecutor said Monday he would focus on the Taliban and Islamic State-Khorasan's actions in Afghanistan instead of alleged US crimes.  from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/3uiHCpV

Visakhapatnam International Airport on Monday witnessed severe waterlogging following heavy rainfall due to cyclone ''Gulab'' in coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh.

YouTuber and Patron of Expatriates' Association Monson Mavunkal has been sent to judicial custody till October 6 for allegedly swindling Rs 4 crores from several people by claiming possession of...

Afghanistan's envoy to the UN pulled out of delivering an address to the General Assembly Monday, as the diplomatic marathon that saw 100 leaders defy coronavirus fears to meet in person in New York drew to a close. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/3iez5iV

A 25-year-old woman had to be rushed to a hospital after she tried to abort her foetus at home watching YouTube videos and her condition deteriorated

The United Nations is still hopeful of a dialogue between India and Pakistan "despite the tone and content of the remarks" exchanged between the two countries at the UN General Assembly, the...

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi today called an emergency meeting of the newly reconstituted Council of Ministers in view of the ''Bharat Bandh''

The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country crossed 86 crore, with over 1 crore doses given on Monday, the Union health ministry said.

Three alleged assailants remain on the run following a shooting in Sydney’s southwest despite specialised police descending on the crime scene. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/2ZpvesI

India recorded just over 2 lakh fresh cases of Covid-19 in the week ending Sunday, a 6.4% decline from the previous seven days and the lowest weekly count in nearly six months.

​At a time when the Union government is still at the proposal stage for reserving 50% panchayat membership for women, Chief Justice of India N V Ramana on Sunday strongly batted for 50% quota for women in all spheres of activity, urging them to “shout and demand” for this right.

ndia has accused China of attempting to hinder border negotiations by seeking to confuse the management of the problem on the border with the larger issue of the resolution of the boundary dispute.

Mobilisation of farmers opposed to the new farm laws is in full swing for the Bharat bandh on Monday. Their presence at the Singhu protest site along the Delhi-Haryana border has considerably swelled.

A last-minute replacement, an abortive campaign to dislodge another from the shortlist and a public outburst by two disgruntled ex-ministers marked the swearing-in of new Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi’s 15-member Cabinet on Sunday, mirroring the drama of his own selection a week ago.

BJP consolidated its ‘sawarn’ (upper caste), non-Yadav-OBC and non-Jatav-SC rainbow social coalition in UP, ahead of the 2022 UP polls, by inducting seven new ministers in an expansion of the Yogi Adityanath ministry on Sunday.

The Yogi Adityanath government in UP on Sunday nominated four names for Vidhan Parishad — Jitin Prasada, NISHAD party chief Sanjay Nishad, Chaudhary Virendra Singh Gurjar and Gopal Anjaan Bhurji. Prasada was also inducted as cabinet minister on Sunday evening.

Seventeen months into the military confrontation in eastern Ladakh, China continues to build more troops shelters along the frontier as part of its ongoing overall consolidation of military positions and upgrade of air bases facing India.

With growing fears about global warming, deadly floods linked to climate change and a new political landscape as Angela Merkel leaves the stage, it should have been the German Greens' year. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/2Y5pHap

Vice Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General C P Mohanty today said that if India wouldn't have invested in its armed forces, then the country would have lost the battles in Galwan and Doklam

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav today accused the BJP of "changing" the caste of ninth-century ruler Mihir Bhoj and tampering with historical facts to secure the votes of a certain...

Three teenagers have drowned in Brahmaputra River and one is missing after they went for a swim at Pandu Ghat in Guwahati, capital city of Assam, on Sunday afternoon.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday moved an application in Prayagraj court seeking 10-day custody of the three accused in the case of the alleged suicide of Akhil Bhartiya Akhara...

"Left-Wing extremism" has been reduced to only three districts in Odisha, said state Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday.

Icelanders voted on Saturday in an election that could see its unprecedented left-right coalition lose its majority, despite bringing four years of stability after a decade of crises. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/3upGbWV

Dr N K Arora, chairman of the Covid-19 working group of National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI), on Saturday ruled out any changes in the gap between two doses of Covishield citing scientific studies suggesting the vaccine’s higher efficacy when the interval between the shots was longer.

After days of hectic discussions and uncertainty, the Congress leadership finally arrived at a consensus on who all will join the Punjab cabinet. The list was cleared during CM Charanjit Singh Channi’s meeting with Rahul Gandhi that went on past Friday midnight. On returning from Delhi, Channi met Punjab governor Banwarilal Purohit on Saturday, and 15 cabinet ministers will now be administered the oath of office at 4.30pm on Sunday.

In a rare occurrence during September, a cyclone is set to hit the north Andhra-south Odisha coast on Sunday evening with expected wind speeds gusting up to 95kmph, the IMD has warned. The cyclone, christened ‘Gulab’, intensified from a deep depression over north Bay of Bengal on Saturday afternoon and is expected to make landfall by Sunday around Kalingapatnam, between Vishakhapatnam and Gopalpur, the India Meteorological Department said.

All the family members were killed by Leelu (45) for ancestral land so that nobody could claim his share of the property.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expectedly had a message in his UN General Assembly address for Pakistan, as he slammed use of terrorism as a political tool, but equally significantly for China as he said the “reliability’’ of global institutions of governance, built over decades, had been hit by their handling of issues like Covid-19 origin and ‘ease of doing business’ rankings.

India’s diplomat Sneha Dubey delivered a fiery rebuttal to Pakistan PM Imran Khan raking up the Jammu & Kashmir issue in his UNGA address, saying Pakistan has nurtured terrorists for long and is an “arsonist disguising itself as a fire-fighter”. Dubey, an IFS officer of 2012 batch, was exercising India’s right of reply, and added that Pakistan held the ignoble record of hosting the largest number of terrorists proscribed by the UN Security Council.

PM Narendra Modi on Saturday made an important effort to put India on the front-line of the global fight against Covid-19, by inviting global vaccine manufacturers to “come and make vaccines in India”. “I, today, invite vaccine manufacture around the world — come, make vaccines in India,” PM Modi said while addressing the 76th session of the UN General Assembly.

People who have taken both doses of Covid-19 vaccines and want to travel abroad will have a CoWin vaccination certificate with their full date of birth, National Health Authority (NHA) chief Dr RS...

Summing up his three-day US visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said he had productive bilateral and multilateral engagements during his stay.

REET: Mobile internet and SMS will be snapped in five districts of Rajasthan for 12 hours on Sunday as the state holds an important exam to select teachers for government schools, the state government...

Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Saturday said reform of the UN Security Council and a permanent seat at the horseshoe table remains India's top priority, and under General Assembly...

It has come to light that Prashant Kishor, who helped Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool, retain power in the recent West Bengal Assembly polls, had registered himself in Bhabanipur, where the Chief...

Barely four months after Yaas' wreaked havoc in Odisha, the coastal state is bracing for another cyclone, 'Gulab', which is likely to make landfall on Sunday evening between Gopalpur and...

International flight operations are likely to resume at the Srinagar airport as efforts are on to start services between here and Sharjah, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on...

Access to fundamental rights cannot be denied to people based on their economic status, Supreme Court judge Justice Ravindra Bhat said.

Uttar Pradesh is the first state across the country to administer over 10 crore COVID-19 vaccines to eligible beneficiaries, said Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad on Saturday.

A storm of controversy threatens to undermine Kristalina Georgieva's leadership of the IMF as experts, US lawmakers and the Treasury scrutinize her actions in a former senior role at the World Bank. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/3CmLMQu

The last, mostly Haitian migrants who camped illegally under a Texas bridge, sparking a major border crisis for President Joe Biden's administration, have left or been removed, a top official said Friday. from Latest News and News Headlines | Daily Telegraph https://ift.tt/3m0fjbQ