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NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented move, India’s private airport operators have warned that “considerable time being taken in processing security vetting” is “impacting project implementation schedules, achieving operational efficiencies, commercial preparedness, and ensuring passenger convenience.” The Association of Private Airport Operators (APAO), which represents the 14 PPP airports in India including those in Delhi, Mumbai,…

The government under Tarique Rahman’s leadership has appointed a young journalist as Minister (Press) at the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi. The appointee, journalist Saidur Rahman, has previously made social media posts critical of India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, questioned India’s role in Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War, and called for the release of…

PM Modi and Shashi Tharoor (R) (File photo) NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday took a poetic swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s announcement on paper leak cases, using a famous couplet by Pakistani Urdu poet Munir Niazi to suggest that the government’s response had come too late.Responding to the Prime Minister’s…

PM Modi said the Centre would establish fast-track courts to ensure speedy trials and strict punishment in paper leak cases NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced that the Centre will set up fast-track courts to ensure “swift and stringent punishment” for those involved in examination paper leaks.In a post on X, PM…

NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) on Thursday has demanded the suspension of Additional DCP Sandeep Lamba following the circulation of a viral video purportedly showing him slapping a woman protester during the recent student demonstrations at Jantar Mantar.In a post on X, the official CJP account demanded strict action against the officer. “First,…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced that the Centre will set up fast-track courts to ensure the speedy trial and stringent punishment of those involved in paper leak cases, asserting that protecting students’ future remains the government’s top priority.In a post on X, the Prime Minister said, “Nothing…

India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Parvathaneni Harish (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday once again hit out at Pakistan over its continued use of crossborder terrorism, accusing Islamabad of employing terrorism as a “tool of state policy”. New Delhi also reiterated that Jammu and Kashmir “has always been, is, and will…

Jaishankar meets US Secretary of State Marco Rubio S Jaishankar had a meeting with his Marco Rubio on the sidelines of Asean in Manila, focusing on issues related to trade and tariffs along with the critical minerals partnership. According to a US readout, they agreed on the importance of finalising the interim trade deal, which…

NEW DELHI: A Supreme Court bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana Wednesday declined to accept an advocate’s suggestion that it take suo motu cognisance of the police action against protesters at Jantar Mantar.The bench said the advocate shouldn’t waste his own as well as judicial time on issues not…

Panshul Bansal from Haryana, who has secured AIR 2 in NEET UG 2026 NEW DELHI: Aryan Gupta and Panshul Bansal felt the same anger and sense of injustice as lakhs of NEET-UG aspirants when the May 3 examination was cancelled after a paper leak. They believe students were within their rights to protest. However, instead…