India has spent roughly $130 billion building wider, faster expressways to speed up truck freight, but toll data shows many drivers are still choosing the older, more congested highways running alongside them.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended a 60-day pause on sanctions targeting buyers of Russian oil, saying India cannot realistically pivot away from Russian energy overnight even as Washington keeps up pressure over the war in Ukraine.
DP World Group CEO Yuvraj Narayan says India features in the strategic plans of businesses worldwide, but argues the country needs to move faster, as he laid out the port operator's own expansion plans, including a possible $3 billion to $5 billion of further investment.
Delhi Police detained Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and AISA president Neha Bora before their planned 'Lehra Do Tiranga' march in Connaught Place could begin, with Bora's whereabouts unclear for hours afterward.
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The latest SIPRI assessment puts India's stockpile at about 190 warheads, with a dozen now believed deployed for the first time, while canistered Agni-V missiles and a newly expanded submarine fleet round out a deterrent increasingly aimed at countering China.
Captain Smit Machchhar, credited with helping save 174 lives after he was attacked in the cockpit of flydubai flight FZ1073, has been moved from Saudi Arabia to Abu Dhabi for continued treatment, with India's envoy describing him as in good health and recovering well.
Nisarga Adhikary first made news for exposing security gaps in CBSE's marks submission system, and has since been recognised by the US Department of Justice and thanked by the Pentagon for flagging vulnerabilities in their own systems.
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Counting for the Delhi University Students' Union election wrapped up with the ABVP taking the president, secretary and joint secretary posts, while an independent candidate denied it a clean sweep by winning the vice president's seat.
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With a Kargil to Leh padyatra looming later this month, veteran Leh leaders including former MP Thupstan Chhewang are pressing the Leh Apex Body and Kargil Democratic Alliance to build on the progress reached with the Centre last year rather than return to the streets.
Bangladesh has confirmed Tarique Rahman will skip the New Delhi summit, with a government minister saying the invitation India extended was tied to his role heading BIMSTEC rather than a bilateral invitation to Bangladesh's Prime Minister.
Penguin Random House India stepped away from publishing the Congress leader's much anticipated memoir after talks over the manuscript stalled, clearing the way for HarperCollins India to bring out Belonging: A Journey of Love this November.
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The actor landed in Kathmandu with his charity foundation team carrying food and blankets for families hit by last month's flash floods, saying the aid will keep coming in the months ahead as the death toll there has climbed past 1,000.
The GSLV-F17 rocket is set to carry the geostationary imaging satellite into orbit from Sriharikota, a mission that doubles as a second attempt at a satellite India lost in 2021 and as a chance to reset a launch programme rattled by two straight PSLV failures.
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President Shavkat Mirziyoyev presented the Prime Minister with Uzbekistan's top state honour during his Tashkent visit, a gesture Modi said belonged not to him personally but to 1.4 billion Indians.
Rescuers have now pulled more than 8,100 people to safety since Wednesday's glacier collapse triggered catastrophic flooding, even as the confirmed toll keeps climbing and Washington steps in with a multi million dollar humanitarian aid package.
Addressing interfaith gatherings in New York, the RSS chief said Hindutva does not envisage an India without Muslims and framed diversity as something to be protected rather than merely tolerated, remarks that drew a mixed reaction back home.
The Indian Army has formally signed off on procuring the Javelin anti-tank guided missile system through the US Foreign Military Sales route, a deal US Ambassador Sergio Gor called a major step forward that also opens the door to co-production in India.
Prime Minister Modi's talks with President Mirziyoyev in Tashkent produced a raft of agreements spanning uranium supply, digital connectivity and cultural heritage, marking fifteen years of the countries' strategic partnership with a formal upgrade.
Two days after a glacier collapse sent flash floods tearing through the Nepal Tibet border region, a swollen barrier lake near the frontier has burst, prompting evacuation orders even as the confirmed death toll climbs and nearly 1,500 people remain unaccounted for.
The senior Congress leader pointed to the Kamaraj era as proof that strict laws and firm enforcement from the top can wipe out graft, arguing that a number of government offices in Tamil Nadu already function with little to no corruption when that discipline is applied.
