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R Praggananda wins Tashkent meet, become number 1 chess player in India with FIDE rating of 2799
Supreme Court says its 'grounds of arrest' order was prospective and cannot be applied restrospectively as it was alarmed by a Karnataka HC order that released a murder accused who was arrested two years ago as the police did not provide him a copy of 'grounds of arrest' in writing
Russia assured India that it will get the remaining two squadrons of S-400 surface-to-air missile systems by 2027
Kolkata Police launches a new service to report e-fraud. People losing more than Rs 10L in any e-fraud can call 1930 for automatic registration of FIR against such crime
US embassy in India asks vias-seekers to provide information about all their social media handles for the last 5 years, and asks the access to these handles be made 'public'. Warns that omitting any information might result in "visa denial and ineligibility for future visas"
India refuses to sign the SCO joint statement as it fails to address its concern over terrorism by completely omitting any reference to the Pahalgam attack
Mamata Banerjee claims that in a dangerous and alarming move, the Election Commission is targeting Bengal with its voter-list revision norms that need people to provide birth certificates to become voters
The information from the black box of crashed AI Dreamliner has been recovered and downloaded and the reasons for the crash may be known in 10 days
Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari urges industry to ferry goods with trucks using green fuel
Listed, private, non-financial companies reported a sales growth of 7.2% in 2024-25, much better than the worrisome 4.7% reported in 2023-24, showing that demand increased substantially
Stock markets in bull grip on Thursday: sensex soars 1000 points to 83755 and Nifty 304 points to 25549 as markets continue to celebrate easing of tensions in the Middle-East
Asian Squash Doubles Championships: India win all three titles - men's, women's and mixed in a superb show
ICC introduces two new rules in Tests: Stop clocks to calculate perfect time for over rates and letting the fielding team decide which batter will keep strike if a deliberate 'short' run is attempted
CBSE boards for Class X will be held twice a year from 2026
Reliance and Adani enter into a partneship for fuel distribution. Adani will sell Reliance petroleum products at its outlets and Reliance will sell Adani CNG from its outlets