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NEW DELHI: After a five-year pause, direct flights between Kolkata and China’s Guangzhou city are set to resume on Sunday, with the first flight scheduled to take off from Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport at 10 pm, an airport official confirmed.Direct flights between India and China were operational until early 2020 but were suspended…

Severe cyclone Montha likely to form over Bay of Bengal (ANI) NEW DELHI: The Indian Army has been placed on high alert as two developing cyclonic systems over the East Central Arabian Sea and the South East Bay of Bengal are expected to intensify into cyclone “Montha” within the next 48 hours.According to a statement…

NEW DELHI: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, addressing a rally in Patna, announced a series of welfare measures for Bihar’s Panchayati Raj representatives, should the INDIA bloc come to power in the upcoming elections.Tejashwi promised a substantial increase in per-quintal margin money for PDS distributors, along with pension schemes and a Rs 50 lakh insurance cover…

“The Pakistanis will lose,” says ex-CIA officer warning against war with India Pakistan would lose any conventional war with India, and open conflict holds no positives for Islamabad, former CIA officer John Kiriakou said, calling the US-Pak strategic relationship over the decades a “transactional” one. “Nothing, literally nothing good will come of an actual war…

NEW DELHI: The Centre is preparing a five-year plan for higher education with five main goals: raise enrolment (GER), improve employment and apprenticeships, build international links, upgrade quality and strengthen digital systems. The plan relies on “big-ticket” projects, state-wise targets and performance-linked funding. The quality measures include clearer accreditation bands, so that students can compare…

NEW DELHI: Govt is planning integration of three key media-nodal bodies – Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI), Central Bureau of Communication (CBC, formerly DAVP), and Press Information Bureau (PIB) – to create a unified and more responsive system for communication and public outreach. The move, as per senior officials, aims to streamline information flow,…

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court has said that judges yielding to intimidation or pressure from lawyers and recusing themselves from cases only fuels “browbeating, forum shopping, and attempts to influence the bench”. Justice Niral Mehta made the remark while quashing two recusals by Ahmedabad benches of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and two subsequent transfer…

SRINAGAR: Political tempers are running high in Kashmir Valley after BJP won one of the four Rajya Sabha seats in J&K with support from four legislators outside the party on Friday. The National Conference (NC) leadership exonerated its legislators and allies of cross-voting charges, although party president Farooq Abdullah created a flutter by revealing that…

Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab CM participate in kirtan darbar to commemorate 350th martyrdom day of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann and Aam Aadmi Party National Convener Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday participated in a kirtan Darbar organised by the Punjab government as a part of a series of events to commemorate the…

At The Times of India Group’s Navbharat Times “Leadership Excellence Summit,” leading industrialists and entrepreneurs of the country shared their experiences. Maharashtra’s Additional Chief Secretary for Urban Development, Asim Gupta, while emphasizing the importance of leadership, said that today’s India is no longer afraid to dream big. This has been made possible because the nation…