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Balmoral, Scotland, September 8 Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and the nation’s figurehead for seven decades, has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday. “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement. Her eldest son Charles, 73, automatically becomes king of the United…

Balmoral, Scotland, September 8 Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and the nation’s figurehead for seven decades, has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday. “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” it said in a statement. “The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening…

Chandigarh, September 8Alive and how. A 102-year-old man in Haryana’s Rohtak carried out a rather unique procession on Thursday, when he rode a wedding chariot to the tunes of a brass band, to prove him alive in the official records, which had pronounced him dead.Duli Chand, a resident of Gandhra…

Parvesh SharmaSangrur, September 8Four months after CBI conducted searches at his properties in connection with an alleged bank fraud case of over Rs 40.92 crore, Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on Thursday conducted searches at different properties, including the residence of AAP Amargarh MLA Jaswant Singh Gajjan Majra.Sources said ED officials,…

New Delhi, September 8Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday unveiled a 28-ft-tall statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate.The statue is part of the Centre’s Rs 13,450-crore Central Vista project, which will have a new Parliament building, new office and residences for the prime minister and vice-president and…

New Delhi, September 8 Country has got new energy and inspiration today, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi after unveiling Netaji statue and inaugurating Kartavya Path on Thursday. PM Modi unveiled a 28-ft-tall statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate. The statue is part of the Centre’s Rs 13,450-crore…

New Delhi, September 8 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Rajpath symbolised India’s “slavery” and has now been consigned to history as he inaugurated the revamped stretch with a new name, Kartavya Path, and unveiled a statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate. In a swipe at…

New Delhi, September 8It is “not very fair” to compare the practices in Sikhism as they are well engrained in the culture of the country, the Supreme Court said on Thursday while asking the petitioners in the Karnataka Hijab ban matter not to draw a parallel between Muslim and Sikh…

New Delhi, September 8 In a major development, the Indian and Chinese armies on Thursday announced that they have started to disengage from the Gogra-Hotsprings area in eastern Ladakh, marking an end to an over two-year stand-off in the Patrolling Point 15.The beginning of the disengagement process was an outcome…

New Delhi, September 8 Marking a significant forward movement, the Indian and Chinese armies on Thursday announced that they have begun to disengage from the Patrolling Point 15 in the Gogra-Hotsprings area of eastern Ladakh where the two sides have been locked in a standoff for over two years. The…

New Delhi, September 8 The Foreign Office has not reacted so far to the Biden Administration approving a mega $ 450 million F-16 fighter jet fleet sustainment programme to Pakistan. In a notification to the US Congress, the US State Department has said it has approved a possible foreign…

Sandeep Dikshit New Delhi, September 8 The second India-Japan ‘two plus two’ held in Tokyo on Thursday decided to work towards more complex and sophisticated joint military exercises even as they welcomed the move to add fighter exercises to improve interoperability between all three services of the armed forces. India…

New Delhi, September 8 The US Mission in India has issued a record-breaking 82,000 student visas in 2022, higher than any other country, comprising nearly 20 per cent of all international students studying in the United States, according to an official statement. “We are happy to see so many students…

Kathmandu, September 8 Nepal cricket team captain Sandeep Lamichhane has been accused by a 17-year-old girl of raping her in a hotel room in Kathmandu, police said on Thursday. The teenaged girl filed an FIR at Gaushala Metropolitan Police Circle here on Tuesday in which she accused 22-year-old Lamichhane of…

Kolkata, September 8 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the Centre for not inviting her to be a part of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ongoing visit to India. Banerjee said she was curious over why the BJP-led central government was “worried” about her meeting Hasina. “I…