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WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI: Indian spice merchants and tea growers will be among global exporters who will breathe easy along with American consumers after US president Donald Trump, feeling the heat of rising domestic prices due to tariffs, moved to lower import duties on nearly 200 food, farm, and agricultural items. Tucked deep in the list is…

NEW DELHI: RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Rohini Acharya has levelled serious allegations against her brother Tejashwi Yadav and his close aides Sanjay Yadav and Rameez Nemat, claiming they forced her out of the family and attempted to silence her after the party’s crushing defeat in the Bihar assembly elections. Her outburst came shortly…

NEW DELHI: It was not the sort of work that is associated with state machinery. The court of additional sessions judge Shefali Barnala Tandon (of the Patiala House courts) was convened at her residence around 3 am on Friday to remand a person accused of money laundering, Swaraj Singh Yadav, in ED’s custody. Yadav, who…

NEW DELHI: It is a classic case of how Supreme Court does not follow its own rulings. While it has repeatedly held any stay order in criminal matters should not continue for an unduly long time, its stay order on a CBI probe into poaching of animals in Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR) has been in…

NEW DELHI: Flagging concerns that Indian arms companies were failing to deliver emergency procurements on time and that some of them were even inflating the extent of indigenous content in their products, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan has said the armed forces expect “a bit of nationalism and patriotism” in industry’s “profit-driven endeavours”.“Defence…

NEW DELHI: The smooth and peaceful conduct of Bihar assembly elections with the highest-ever turnout of voters, particularly after the first SIR of its electoral roll in over two decades, will boost the confidence of EC as it goes about Phase 2 of SIR across a dozen other states and UTs, including those due for…

New Delhi: Investigators probing Monday’s Delhi blast suspect that triacetone triperoxide aka TATP could be one of the key components of the IED that was in the car that exploded on Monday evening near Red Fort. At least two-three kg ammonium nitrate and fuel oil might also have been used along with other chemicals, which…

Kishor would at best be a spoiler, many of his critics had said NEW DELHI: Prashant Kishor‘s Jan Suraaj Party lost its deposit in 236 of the 238 seats that it contested but data suggests it may have played spoiler in quite a few seats, reports Atul Thakur. In 35 constituencies, the party’s votes were…

New Delhi: The crime branch of Delhi Police has filed two FIRs against Al-Falah University for alleged offences of cheating and forgery, and searched its premises in Delhi and Faridabad. Police have also issued a notice to the university seeking certain documents, sources said.Meanwhile, the special cell, which is probing a deeper conspiracy behind Monday’s…

SRINAGAR: J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah Saturday said the Bihar assembly poll outcome was more surprising for him than his party’s loss in Budgam bypoll. Nitish Kumar, he said, turned anti-incumbency into pro-incumbency.“It is good for other states to see what Nitish Kumar ji did for voters. He set caste politics aside and focused on…