Political start-ups in Jammu and Kashmir: A growing trend with limited impact

  SRINAGAR: In a growing trend over the past decade, Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing a proliferation of “political start-ups” in the Valley but these outfits have failed to make a significant impact during elections, politicians and analysts said on Sunday.   The decades-long unrest in Kashmir has witnessed the rise of several political parties […]

NEET-UG 2024 counselling process delayed

NEW DELHI: The counselling process for the medical entrance exam National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2024 which was expected to start on Saturday has been delayed.   The counselling session was expected to start on July 6 even though the Medical Counselling Committee had not shared any detailed notification and schedule for it. […]

Reformist Pezeshkian wins Iran’s presidential runoff election, besting hard-liner Jalili

DUBAI: eformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election Saturday, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic.   Pezeshkian promised no radical changes to Iran’s Shiite theocracy in his campaign […]

Andhra, Telangana CMs to meet to resolve pending inter-state issues

HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his Telangana counterpart A Revanth Reddy will meet here on Saturday to resolve pending issues related to bifurcation of undivided Andhra.   The meeting will take place at the government’s Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phule Praja Bhavan here this evening.   Telangana came into existence on June […]

Biden says he was sick during debate, asserts only ‘Lord Almighty’ can drive him out of presidential race

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has dismissed concerns about his health and doubts about his re-election bid in November, brushing off a poor performance in the presidential debate as a “bad episode” and insisting that only “the Lord almighty” could persuade him to exit the race.   Biden, 81, said this on Friday in a […]

Keir Starmer becomes UK PM after Labour Party landslide, Rishi Sunak bows out

LONDON: Keir Starmer became UK’s new prime minister on Friday and vowed to rebuild Britain, hours after his Labour Party secured a landslide victory in a general election in which the weary voters inflicted a “sobering verdict” on Rishi Sunak-led Conservatives, who suffered their worst electoral drubbing.   Starmer, 61, assumed charge as the 58th […]

Hold Mumbai civic body elections at the earliest: Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Friday demanded holding of the long-pending elections to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which is currently under a Maharashtra government-appointed administrator.   Speaking in the assembly, the MLA from Worli in Mumbai pointed out that the metropolis doesn’t have corporators for more than two years now and […]