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Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Bansal unveiled the brochure for the 47th All India Public Relations Conference–2025, to be organized by the Public Relations Society of India (PRSI), Dehradun Chapter. The national conference will be held in Dehradun from December 13 to 15, 2025, on the theme “Public Relations Vision for Viksit Bharat @ 2047.”Speaking at…

NEW DELHI: Air India Mumbai-Newark flight of Wednesday returned to the origin four hours after taking off for the US. The Boeing 777 (VT-AEQ), which took off from Mumbai at 1.14 am with a lean Diwali outbound load of just over 100 people on board, had a technical issue a couple of hours into the…

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and key challenger to Nitish Kumar in Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav, held a press conference on Wednesday to announce a major electoral promise: Jeevika Didis, who work as community mobilisers, will be made permanent government employees with a monthly salary of Rs 30,000. However,…

On a mild Friday afternoon in San Francisco, a group of Stanford Graduate School of Business students walked up the sandstone steps of the Consulate General of India. The building sits a few blocks off Market Street (half formal, half faded), like an old diplomat who’s seen enough decades to know that marble doesn’t have…

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Bihar chief ministerNitish Kumar on Tuesday reflected on his past alliances with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), saying he had joined the party “because of circumstances.” Reaffirming his commitment to the NDA, he said he is “back in NDA for good.” He also criticised the RJD’s…

Rajasthan’s Thar desert is glowing with solar panels, powering India’s clean energy dreams. But behind the boom lies a quieter story that goes unsaid — of vanishing camels, felled khejri trees, and fading pastoral lifeThe Thar desert is dancing, but not to the tune it once knew. Ever since Barmer struck oil in 2004, the…

NEW DELHI: While Malaysian authorities said PM Narendra Modi is likely to attend Asean-East Asia summit and related meetings in Kuala Lumpur later this week, an official confirmation by India is still awaited.US President Donald Trump said this week he’s going to travel to Malaysia for the meetings, raising the possibility of a meeting (formal…

PUNE: Bronze Age traders crossing Gujarat stopped at well-organised roadside facilities that offered shelter, food, security and stables for their pack animals.A new multidisciplinary study by Pune-based Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), New Delhi, published in L’Anthropologie (Elsevier, 2025), has identified a 4,000-year-old…

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he spoke with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the two leaders talked about trade and Pakistan situation. The conversation came on the occasion of Diwali, as he went on to light lamps at the White House.“Let me extend our warmest wishes to the people of India. I…

NEW DELHI: London-based academician and researcher Francesca Orsini was on Monday denied entry into India upon arrival at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here, as she “was blacklisted in March this year for having violated the conditions of her tourist visa by undertaking research during her previous visits”, according to govt sources.Orsini, Professor Emerita of…