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Iran’s deputy foreign minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi said that the ball was “in America’s court to prove that they want to do a deal”. Iran is prepared to consider “compromises” to revive a nuclear deal with the United States, but only if Washington is willing to talk about lifting sanctions, deputy foreign minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi said. His remarks come as both sides trade blame over stalled negotiations. US officials have repeatedly said that Tehran is slowing down progress in the long-running talks. Takht-Ravanchi made it clear that Iran expects a concrete signal from Washington. The ball was “in America’s court to…

With spotlight on notice against Om Birla, past occasions also got back into focus; including when Nehru in the 1950s, Rajiv in ’80s defended the then Speakers. The debate and a vote on the no-confidence motion moved by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi-led opposition against Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla will be taken up on March 9, when the House reassembles after a recess in the budget session, parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju said on Sunday. With the spotlight on the notice, three past occasions when such situations arose also got back into focus — including the first one, in which…

The family of the deceased Ramdhani Yadav was joined by members of the Yadav community who set a deadline of 5pm for a written assurance of their demands. Family of the man who died when an under-construction Mumbai metro rail bridge collapsed in Mulund on Saturday staged a protest at the site of accident on Sunday and refused to take his body. The family of the deceased, identified as Ramdhani Yadav, were accompanied by members of the Yadav community and demanded ₹2 crore as compensation and a government job for one member of his family. Following the protest, the police…

“Those who are on the border know how Pakistan is fighting a proxy war against India,” Cong MP Sukhjinder Randhawa said. Congress MP Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Sunday took a hardline stance on India’s T20 World Cup match against Pakistan, saying the neighbouring Pakistan should be treated as an enemy. “Pakistan is the enemy of our country, and it should be treated like that only. We have no dealings with them. Those who are on the border know how Pakistan is fighting a proxy war against India,” Randhawa, who comes from the border district of Gurdaspur in Punjab, said. Shiv…

Though he was not more specific, the mention of the name Kedar points to a suicide on the IIT-M campus in the same BTech batch as Saketh Sreenivasaiah. Saketh Sreenivasaiah, 22, the Indian student whose body was found in a lake in California after six days of search on Saturday, had graduated barely six months ago from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras; and a celebratory announcement was the last post he made on social network LinkedIn. In it, he poignantly remembered a batchmate, Kedar. “This milestone would’ve been much better alongside my dearest friend and batchmate Kedar.…

Nikhil Gupta has pleaded guilty to murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The US federal court on Friday termed Indian citizen, Nikhil Gupta, as a ‘key participant’ in a murder-for-hire plot in the foiled assassination attempt against Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in 2023. “Nikhil Gupta was a key participant in a murder-for-hire plot against a U.S. citizen, a murder that was prevented thanks to the actions of U.S. law enforcement,” FBI Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky said. Gupta was arrested in the Czech Republic in June 2023 and extradited to the US in June…

After the BNP marked a landslide win the national elections, PM Modi was among the first leaders of the South Asia to extend his wishes to Tarique Rahman. After almost two years of political uncertainty in Bangladesh following former premier Sheikh Hasina’s ouster in youth-led uprising in 2024, Bangladesh is headed to a fresh start after the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) marked a decisive win in the national elections held on February 12. BNP chairman and late Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique Rahman is set to become the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, a post once held by his mother. The political…

The flight was on its way from Assam’s Dibrugarh Airport to Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport when the suspicious message was found. An IndiGo flight on way from Assam’s Dibrugarh Airport to Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport made an emergency landing on Saturday evening after a bomb threat message was found written with lipstick in the plane’s washroom. Officials said the aircraft, IndiGo flight 6E6894 (A-320), landed safely at 7:37pm and was immediately moved to the isolation bay as per established security protocols and all passengers were safely deboarded. Earlier in the day, crew of another…

A man and a woman were found dead inside a parked car in Noida on Saturday morning. In a shocking case, a couple was reportedly found dead with gunshot injuries inside a parked car in Noida on Saturday. The case is a stark reminder of the sensational triple murder case in Delhi where three people were found dead inside a parked car in Peeragarhi. What was initially assumed to be a suicide, later turned out to be a murder case involving an occultist. However, in the Noida case, police have said that circumstances suggest that it is a murder-suicide case…

With Tarique Rahman swearing-in next week, all eyes are on Bangladesh’s next move vis-à-vis former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her country of exile, India. The Bangladesh election has paved the way for the return of Tarique Rahman and his Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to power after over two decades in Bangladesh. The February 12 elections has put an end to the nineteen months of political vacuum in Dhaka since the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government following students-led protests in 2024. With Tarique Rahman swearing-in likely next week, all eyes are on Dhaka’s next move vis-à-vis former Prime…