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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government Tuesday created a new 'Ministry of Cooperation', looking to provide more heft to the cooperative movement in the country. The move came a day before the Union cabinet was scheduled for a reshuffle,...

Dharamshala: On his 86th birthday on Tuesday, the Dalai Lama said he has taken full advantage of India's freedom and religious harmony and is committed to reviving ancient Indian knowledge.In a virtual address from his residence here, the Tibetan spiritual...

New Delhi: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's expected cabinet expansion, a different shuffle saw seven governors swapping states and Union Minister Thawarchand Gehlot becoming a governor.Thawarchand Gehlot, 73, will take over as Governor of Karnataka. He was Union Minister...

Moscow: Any US attempts to talk to Russia from a "position of strength" are doomed to failure, and any aggressive move will be met with a harsh response, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the Indonesian Rakyat Merdeka newspaper."Attempts to...

Toyo: Japan is closely monitoring Russia's military activity in the border areas and urges Moscow to ensure the safety of Japanese ships during planned missile launches in the Sea of ​​Japan, the country's Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said...

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: Contact was lost with an An-26 aircraft in Russia's Far East that was carrying 28 people, the regional department of the Emergencies Ministry told Sputnik."In the afternoon of July 6, the duty shift of the crisis management center...

Guwahati:  Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday stressed the need to eliminate red-tapism and bring about procedural simplification in government mechanisms to take the government closer to the people.He also called for doing away with the old...

Guwahati: Assams COVID-19 tally rose to 5,19,834 on Monday as 2,640 more people tested positive for the infection, while 31 fresh fatalities pushed the states coronavirus death toll to 4,683, a health bulletin said.Golaghat district registered the highest number of...

Agartala:  Bamboo technologist Samir Jamatia, who had earlier received appreciation for producing a tea-like brew from the tropical grass, has now made household utensils out of its remnants that get junked at incense stick factories.Jamatia, a resident of Gomati...

Guwahati: Assam's COVID-19 tally rose to 5,17,194 on Sunday as 1,213 more people tested positive for the infection, while 20 fresh fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 4,652, a health bulletin said.Kamrup Metropolitan district registered the highest number...