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[ad_1] NEW DELHI: BJP has signalled that it is open to the idea of a caste census without getting into specifics such as a likely timeline while keeping a wary eye on ally Nitish Kumar‘s attempts to raise stakes over OBC politics by calling for a caste count. A central ...

[ad_1] An Alaska Airlines aircraft, Flight 751, flying from New Orleans to Seattle, US had to evacuate on arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport after a passenger’s phone caught fire mid-air. Alaska Airlines in a statement to The Verge said that the flight crew had to use fire extinguishers and a ...

[ad_1] Security firm UpGuard has blamed the default permissions settings in an app-building tool from Microsoft, called Power Apps, for exposing the data of 38 million users online. According to UpGuard, user records stored on the Microsoft service, including private information, were mistakenly left exposed. The Power Apps tool allows ...

[ad_1] ISLAMABAD: The Taliban warned on Tuesday that they would not extend the August 31 deadline announced by the Biden administration for withdrawal of all American troops from Afghanistan and urged the US to evacuate all its nationals by the agreed date. The group’s statement comes a day after its ...

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Tuesday dubbed the government’s “asset monetisation plan” as a deal to gift the crown jewels created over 70 years to select industrialist friends, warning that it will lead to creation of monopolies and hurt the future employment for the youth. He said PM ...

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: After German Chancellor Angela Merkel, PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday had a 45-minute conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin with a focus on Afghanistan as the two sides shared assessments and sought to coordinate actions to ensure regional security. India and Russia agreed to set up a ...

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Royal Enfield on Tuesday teased the heavily reworked Classic 350, and announced the launch on September 1. Classic 350 will undergo a handful of changes, both mechanically and cosmetically. Royal Enfield is set to replace the Unit Construction Engine (UC) with the J-Series engine — the same ...

[ad_1] LONDON: Charlie Watts, the drummer of the legendary British rock’n’roll band the Rolling Stones, died on Tuesday at the age of 80, his publicist said. “It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of our beloved Charlie Watts. He passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier ...

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Attorney general K K Venugopal on Tuesday termed as “outrageous” the recent judgment of Bombay high court which held that “skin-to-skin” contact is essential for a sexual assault offence under the POCSO Act. He told the Supreme Court that it would have wider ramification on 43,000 cases ...

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: CIA director William Burns flew to Kabul for secret talks with the Taliban leadership on Monday amid expectation that the US and its western allies will call the militants’ bluff and extend the August 31 withdrawal deadline in order to complete the evacuation of stranded Americans and Afghan ...