Amid speculation that Shashi Tharoor may fight the Congress presidential polls, the Thiruvananthapuram MP met interim chief Sonia Gandhi earlier in the day, barely weeks after he expressed concerns about “transparency and fairness” in the upcoming election.

An HT analysis of global temperature database maintained by NASA shows that the June-July-August (JJA) period might indeed have been the warmest the world has seen since 1880.

Last week, the actor was quizzed for over eight hours along with Pinki Irani, the person who allegedly introduced the actor to Chandrashekhar.

India’s external affairs minister S Jaishankar commenced his 11-day visit to the United States (US) with a range of meetings on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Monday.

Mizoram agriculture department director James Lalsiamliana said three blocks in south Mizoram’s Lunglei district reported the largest number of rodent attacks

Spread over 10 acres in the heart of Faridkot, the Qila Mubarak is a reminder of what once was. The stately cream and white palace, its veneer now chipped in places, was once the centre of power of the erstwhile princely state’s last ruler Maharaja Harinder Singh Brar.

On BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhayay’s petition to cancel Waqf Act on the ground that it was discriminatory, the Supreme Court said: “Find out one provision in the Waqf Act which is against equality”

Moragoda said the decision to allow the docking of the Chinese ship ‘Yuan Wang 5’ was taken at the level of “officials” in the chaotic time when former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was leaving the country.

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