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The UK granted residence visas last year at almost double the pace it did before the pandemic as more people came to work and study in the UK. The Home Office issued a total of 1.4 million visas last year, up from 714,300 in 2019 before coronavirus lockdowns halted much...

Jammu, Feb 24: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik appeared via video-conferencing before a special court here on Friday and an eyewitness identified him in the 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.   The eyewitness corroborated that he had gone...

New Delhi, Feb 24: Gold price fell Rs 80 to Rs 55,840 per 10 grams in the national capital on Friday amid weak global trends, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the yellow metal had closed at Rs 55,920 per 10 grams. Silver also tumbled Rs 767 to Rs...

Karachi, Feb 24: The intriguing story of how a "shy" teenage Pakistani girl travelled on her own to Bengaluru to meet and marry an Indian man was revealed by her uncle who said she sold her jewellery and borrowed money from friends to buy air tickets to Dubai and...

NEW DELHI: India was able to save more than 3.4 million lives by undertaking a nationwide Covid-19 vaccination campaign at an unprecedented scale, said a report by Stanford University. The Covid vaccination campaign also yielded a positive economic impact by preventing a loss of USD 18.3 billion, the working paper by Stanford...

BENGALURU: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed hope that G20 will draw inspiration from the vibrancy of the Indian economy and work towards bringing back stability, confidence and growth on the global landscape. In his video message to the G20 meeting of the finance ministers and central bank governors, the Prime Minister underlined...

NEW DELHI, Feb 24: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a case for strengthening multilateral development banks to meet the challenges facing the world, especially climate change. In his video address to the G20 meeting of the finance ministers and central bank governors, Modi said it was imperative for...

United Nations, Feb 24: India abstained in the U.N. General Assembly on February 23 on a resolution that underscored the need to reach as soon as possible a “comprehensive, just and lasting peace” in Ukraine in line with the principles of the U.N. Charter. The 193-member General Assembly adopted the...

United Nations, Feb 24: India slammed Pakistan after it referred to Jammu and Kashmir during a special session on Ukraine in the UN General Assembly, terming the provocation as “regrettable and misplaced” and calling out Islamabad’s track record of harbouring and providing safe havens to terrorists with impunity. “I’m taking...

NEW DELHI, Feb 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the government is fully committed to sustainable development in the field of green energy. PM Modi was responding to a tweet by Union minister for heavy industries, Mahendra Nath Pandey which said that electric vehicles under the FAME ll...