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India’s planned acquisition of four large amphibious warships would strengthen its ability to support naval logistics and humanitarian missions across the Indian Ocean, with security experts saying their value depends on how the navy could effectively utilise them during a crisis. The Indian Navy has invited bids for four landing platform docks (LPDs), each with a displacement of more than 30,000 tonnes. Indian Navy Vice Chief Vice Admiral Ajay Kochhar said at a media briefing on Monday that a...

Retired IAS officers Reeta Harish Thakkar and Mythili K. Rajendran, retired district judge S. Kirubaharan Mathuram, and retired engineer-in-chief K. P. Sathyamurthy have been appointed as members of the authority

How do you retire rich in India? We asked wealth managers and financial advisers where to put your money, what risks to avoid and how your strategy should change over time. (Source: Bloomberg)

Two top leaders of India’s Cockroach Party, Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, have been released after a week in jail.

How does Indian law define ‘untouchability’? How has the Supreme Court interpreted ‘purity and pollution’? What did the Rajasthan High Court rule on purification? What facts would determine whether the Haldwani ritual amounted to untouchability?

At the 75th foundation day of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Mr. Nabin said the BJP would continue along the path established by its ideological and political predecessor

Prabuddha Bharat Yatra to build a Constitution-based enlightened India inaugurated in Nava Nagar of Bagalkot

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a deadline of December 31, 2029, to make India drugs-free

The US is looking to persuade India’s Reliance Industries to refine more Venezuelan crude as Washington seeks to bring additional supplies to a market rattled by the Iran conflict. Bloomberg's Sudhi Ranjan Sen has more from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit to India. (Source: Bloomberg)

The latest Free Trade Agreement to come into force has several advantages for India in terms of trade, investment, and the mobility of students, while protecting India’s sensitive sectors

Deputy Secretary Barkha Tamrakar told the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee that India opposes turning “unverified allegations” into a negative characterisation, amid concerns raised by UN experts over Delhi’s youth-led protests

Washington, Oct. 20 (Jiji Press)--The leaders of the Quad, a collaborative framework among Japan, the United States, Australia and India, are expected to meet in Manila next month, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview with Indian media on Tuesday. The summit will be held on the sidelines of meetings related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Rubio told the me...

Special officers are administering rural local bodies in several districts since January 2025

Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office on Tuesday (October 20, 2026), Mr. Trump said India and the U.S. were pretty close to making a trade deal

Of 4.5 lakh applications for inclusion, about 2.39 lakh were filed by those seeking re-inclusion or applying for the first time after the draft roll was published

Honduras geopolitics in October 2026: US trade and tariffs, the China and Taiwan question, the EU, Israel, the Gulf, India and BRICS, with dated facts. The post Honduras Geopolitics Explained 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

The UN experts said in a statement that “this crackdown reflects a broader, troubling pattern”, adding that they alerted the Indian authorities on the “undue restrictions on peaceful assembly, excessive use of force, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, and the targeting of student activists, amongst others”

From idol immersions to Ravana effigy burnings, visuals from across the country as communities mark the end of Navratri with Dasara, Vijayadashami and Durga Puja festivities

The coming launch of India’s largest-ever initial public offering (IPO) will test investor confidence in the country’s leading telecoms operator, Jio Platforms, the digital arm of billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. Jio’s public share offer on Wednesday comes close on the heels of an escalating row between Ambani and Elon Musk. The SpaceX founder has accused the Indian industrialist of using monopolistic influence to block Starlink’s entry into India – a charge Reliance has denied,...

At Kangeyanur Panchayat Union Middle School near Villupuram, science teacher Maria Joseph has spent nearly two decades creating opportunities for students to kindle their interest in science.

Demand increase from ₹12,300 to ₹30,000; refuse to call off agitation without official order 

As per the Delhi Traffic Police advisory, restrictions may be imposed on six roads in Dwarka on October 20 evening

Impact sends water gushing over 20 feet into the air, flooding roads near Nagole Metro Station; HMWSSB officials repair damaged air valve and restore drinking water supply across affected areas

After landing in Mumbai, Marco Rubio and his wife visited the Gateway of India with with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis

Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas holds that without any extension of the time granted by the Supreme Court, it was not proper for the High Court to direct a delayed registration or even to direct the consideration of an application for time extension

The protest came after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asked Govind Singh Dotasra to pursue legal action over the alleged assault on Ritu Barala, who hails from Rajasthan

It will include separate documents for women, youth and a manifesto on law and order, highlighting party’s commitment on these issues apart from focus on social justice and PDA plank 

Society for the Protection of the Environment, Kerala (SPEK) says though the govt decision has been presented as a flood mitigation step, no environmental impact assessment appears to have been conducted. Activists also point out that this may serve as a pretext for indiscriminate extraction of sand from all rivers and streams

Students have begun a “Justice Corner 2.0” sit-in near the Ambedkar statue in the institute’s building, a day after police dismantled a protest site near the gate that had stood for a month