US President Donald Trump has thrown another punch in Washington’s long-running economic bout with Beijing, slapping fresh 100% tariffs and export bans in response to China’s tightening grip on rare earth minerals. The uneasy truce between the world’s two biggest economies came after months of uneasy calm, sending shockwaves through global markets and raising fears...

Perched at an altitude of 8,500 feet above the sea level, nippy weather has already set in at one of India’s winter wonderlands, the tourist hotspot Gulmarg. The green table-top meadow located in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district is spread over three square kilometres, with the imposing peaks and slopes of the Pir Panjal ranges of...

A Karva Chauth celebration in Ghaziabad was marred by violence on Wednesday evening when a woman, her husband, and their son were allegedly assaulted following a confrontation over a motorcycle headlight. The chaotic incident was captured on CCTV footage, which is now circulating widely on social media. The family had visited the Kotwali Nagararea to...

The health ministry recently told Parliament that the National Medical Commision (NMC) data shows there are 13,86,157 registered doctors in India, a number that is almost identical to the 13,86,136 it cited in the Lok Sabha in Aug last year. So, how could India have added just 21 doctors over the past year despite about...

Justice R. Vijayakumar took into account two Gazette notifications, in 1908 and 1923, of the Archaeological Survey of India. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Justice R. Vijayakumar of the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, the tie-breaker judge in the Tirupparankundram hillock case in which a Division Bench had delivered a split verdict, on...

Sir Tony Blair has been told he would not be welcome in a post-war Gaza. (AP) A senior Hamas official has thanked US President Donald Trump for his role in securing a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, saying the conflict would not have ended without his direct involvement. In an interview with Sky News Dr...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Shimla Sub-Zonal Office, on October 9, 2025, arrested Nishant Sareen, currently serving as Assistant Drug Controller (HQ) in Himachal Pradesh’s Directorate of Health and Safety Regulation, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. The arrest is part of an ongoing investigation into corruption, forgery, cheating, accumulation of disproportionate assets,...