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BEIJING: China on Tuesday made desperate attempts to challenge Indias indisputable sovereignty, raising futile objections after the Union Government identified and standardised the names of 28 strategic places and geographical features in the Union Territory of Ladakh for official mapping. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Central Government, in consultation with the Union []

MUMBAI: Zimbabwe is in talks with NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL) the arm of Indias National Payments Corporation of India to licence the technology behind the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as a shared domestic rail for realtime payments, a new report has said. Such a domestic rail would enable banks, mobile-money operators and []

RAIPUR: Indian batter Smriti Mandhana had her first training day as the teams all-format captain ahead of the first T20I against Zimbabwe, with the series starting from October 16 onwards in Raipur. Following Harmanpreet Kaurs stepping down as captain, Team India will begin the Smriti Era during the three T20Is and ODIs against Zimbabwe at []

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit India later this week to attend the BRICS Summit in New Delhi and hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov announced on Tuesday. Speaking to Indian mediapersons ahead of Putins visit, Peskov said that the two leaders will discuss bilateral ties and []

WASHINGTON: Trade, defence, China and Indo-Pacific security figured in a series of meetings between nine US lawmakers and an Indian American advocacy group seeking deeper strategic ties between Washington and New Delhi. The United States India Relationship Council, or USIRC, said Thursday that its delegation met Democratic and Republican members of Congress during two days []

RIYADH: Union Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh on Monday hailed the role of Indian workers in cementing ties between India and Saudi Arabia. Singh made the statement after he met Indian workers at the labour camp of the Al Fanar Company in Saudi Arabia and expressed the Indian governments commitment to []

BENGALURU: US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said that Washington wants India by our side as the United States returns to the Moon, revealing that NASA has officially invited ISRO to join its Moon base programme. India is a proud signatory of the Artemis Accords, and NASA has officially invited ISRO to join us in []

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described the inauguration of the BAPS Swaminarayan Hindu Mandir in Paris as a landmark moment in India-France cultural relations, saying the grand temple would enrich Frances cultural diversity while giving fresh momentum to the ties between the two countries. Addressing the gathering through video conference during the []

NEW DELHI: Indian agencies have secured the deportation of three absconding Indian gangsters, who were apprehended in Malaysia. The fugitives, namely Jaspreet Singh, Ajay Singh, and Pawandeep Singh, are linked to the Bambiha Gang and are accused of multiple crimes, including extortion, cross-border arms and narco-trafficking, and a foiled grenade attack in Punjabs Ludhiana. Union []

NEW DELHI: India has removed export restrictions on wheat and durum wheat with immediate effect, while separately allowing free exports of wheat flour and related products, including atta and maida, according to two notifications issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) on Monday. In its notification on wheat, the DGFT revised the export []

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Nabin on Monday unveiled his new team, with former Chief Ministers Vasundhara Raje (Rajasthan) and Tirath Singh Rawat (Uttarakhand) and Ram Madhav among the Vice Presidents and former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb and former Union Minister Smriti Irani among the General Secretaries. The BJP announced []