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Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India RAJKOT: A consumer court in Gujarat’s Jamnagar has directed LIC of India to pay Rs 12 lakh with 6% interest to a policyholder whose husband died of a heart attack in 2022. The court also ordered LIC to pay Rs 5,000 as compensation for mental harassment and Rs 3,000…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting, in Tianjin, China. (File photo) NEW DELHI: India and China held discussions on border-related issues, news agency Reuters reported on Wednesday, quoting China’s defence ministry. Both sides had “active and in-depth communication on the control of the western section of the China-India border.”…

NEW DELHI: Failure to curb the warming effects of climate change has seen the rate of heat-related deaths surge 23% since the 1990s, reaching an estimated 5,46,000 yearly deaths globally on average between 2012-21, according to Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate Change.Air pollution from wildfire smoke (PM 2.5) was linked to a record…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (PTI Photo), Cyclone (ANI Photo) Speaking at the 22nd Asean Summit, PM Modi said the 21st century belongs to India and Asean and announced 2026 as the “Asean-India Maritime cooperation year.” The Army has been placed on high alert ahead of Cyclone Montha, expected to intensify over the Arabian Sea and…

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,…