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KARWAR: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two individuals from Uttara Kannada district for allegedly leaking sensitive information about Karwar naval base to Pakistan in an alleged case of honey-trapping, sources said Tuesday.An NIA team from Hyderabad took the accused – Vetana Tandel from Muduga village and Akshay Naik from Halavalli – into custody on […]

NEW DELHI: The Sangam waters where millions of devotees have been taking a holy dip every day during the ongoing Maha Kumbh has been found to be contaminated with alarming levels of faecal and total coliform, prompting National Green Tribunal (NGT) to summon UP govt authorities.A quality assessment report submitted to NGT by Central Pollution

MUMBAI: Bombay HC on Tuesday rejected a petition by Mirza Himayat Baig, who was convicted in the 2010 Pune German Bakery blast case, to shift him to a general barrack from solitary confinement.“At this stage, there is no concern about any psychological trauma on account of any indefinite solitary confinement,” said Justices Revati Mohite Dere

KOLKATA: A Pocso court in Kolkata on Tuesday sentenced a 34-year-old man to death for raping a seven-month-old infant on Nov 30 last year and leaving her fighting for life, terming the case “rarest of rare”.“There cannot be any other punishment that the court can think of,” judge Indrila Mukherjee Mitra said in her verdict

BENGALURU: Chandrayaan-4 India’s planned lunar sample return mission that aims to soft land near the Moon’s south pole, collect samples from the lunar surface, and return them to Earth for analysis will have a mass of approximately 9,200kg compared to Chandrayaan-3’s 3,900kg. Since Isro’s current capability to lift payloads to geotransfer orbit (GTO) is limited

The TOI correspondent from London: Fugitive Indian businessman Vijay Mallya’s barrister told a London court that the banks pursuing Mallya are “acting in bad faith” and not being transparent as he made a failed attempt to adjourn Mallya’s appeal hearing against his bankruptcy order in the London high court on the first day of its

SHIMLA: The lone deportee from Himachal Pradesh, Rohit, reached his Milwan village in Indora sub-division of Kangra district on Tuesday. Rohit was among the third batch of deportees sent by the US to Punjab’s Amritsar on Sunday. After he landed at the Amritsar airport along with other deportees, Kangra authorities escorted him to his village,

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi and Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani on Tuesday unequivocally condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations including cross-border terrorism, as the two leaders agreed to cooperate in combating the menace through bilateral and multilateral mechanisms. In a joint statement issued hours after they held talks here,

Telangana CM Revanth Reddy (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Congress-led Telangana government has issued an order allowing all the Muslim employees working for the state to take a leave an hour early during “Ramzan” days.The Revanth Reddy dispensation has permitted all Muslim government employees, teachers, contract, out-sourcing, corporations and public sector employees to leave their