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New Zealand authorities early on Thursday urged residents along its north coast to avoid beaches and coastal areas after a strong earthquake struck southeast of the Loyalty Islands in the Pacific. New Zealand’s National Emergency Management Agency said people should get out of the water, off beaches and away from …

A lion enters a hotel in Junagadh, Gujarat. Shocking CCTV footage shows the moment a lion checked into a hotel in Gujarat. Surveillance camera footage from a hotel in Junagadh shows the lion leaping over a low boundary wall to enter the hotel’s premises in the early hours of Monday …

The government asked Twitter to block 1,178 accounts. New Delhi: Twitter, which was asked by the government to block 1,178 accounts for allegedly spreading misinformation about farmers’ protests and provocative content, said today that the orders were inconsistent with Indian law and that, for some accounts, it would restrict access …

New Delhi: Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday coined a term to counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his comment that the nation should be vigilant about who he called. “andolan jeevi” or professional protesters. Speaking at the Lok Sabha, Mr Yadav, a fervent critic of the Prime Minister, …

The vaccination program in the country has entered its fourth week. (Archive) New Delhi: Fifteen states and Union territories have not reported any deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the government said today, highlighting the weakening of the virus in the country. While the number of new cases …

NEW DELHI: The outgoing leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said Tuesday that he is among the lucky people who did not go to Pakistan and are proud to be Hindustani Muslims. “I always felt that paradise is India. I was born after independence. I am …

This was the first conversation between Prime Minister Modi and Joe Biden after the inauguration of the President of the United States. Highlight Prime Minister Modi tweeted that he has spoken with US President Joe Biden. The prime minister said they agreed to greater cooperation against climate change. We are …

Leading IT services company HCL Technologies (HCL) announced today that it is issuing a special one-time bond worth ₹Rs 700 million to employees around the world, in recognition of their recent milestone of crossing the $ 10 billion mark in revenue by 2020. All employees with one year of service …

NEW DELHI: Calling the glacial outbreak in Uttarakhand a “very rare incident,” scientists said Sunday that satellite images and Google Earth did not show a glacial lake near the region, but that there was a possibility of ‘pockets of water ‘(lakes within glaciers) that could have erupted, leading to this …