PM Modi was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Makarios III - the highest honour in Cyprus, by President Nikos Christodoulides at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia on Monday
16 June,2025 03:18 PM IST | mid-day online correspondentThe horrifying Ahmedabad plane crash on June 12, 2025 was a tragedy that shook the world. With the incident taking over 260 lives and leaving several injured. Among the many teams responding to the tragedy, the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) played a crucial role in recovering the deceased
16 June,2025 02:37 PM IST | mid-day online correspondentA Delhi-bound Air India bound flight from Hong Kong returned to its airport of origin on Monday after the pilot in command suspected a technical issue, according to sources. The flight has landed safely in Hong Kong
16 June,2025 01:54 PM IST | PTIGaurav Kundi, 42, from Modbury North in Adelaide, died on Thursday after he was hospitalised for an “unrecoverable” brain injury.
16 June,2025 01:40 PM IST | AgenciesA Frankfurt-Hyderabad flight of Lufthansa was diverted back to its origin airport on Sunday due to a "bomb threat", the airline has said. The airline spokesperson, in a statement, said the passengers, who were provided with accommodation in Frankfurt, will be continuing their journey to Hyderabad on Monday.
16 June,2025 12:47 PM IST | PTIA minor fire broke out in the lavatory of the moving Daund-Pune shuttle train on Monday morning, causing panic among passengers, police said. The blaze was quickly doused and no one was injured in the incident which occurred near Yevat in Pune district at around 8 am, an official from Daund railway police station said.
16 June,2025 11:57 AM IST | PTIAmitabh Kant, a retired 1980-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Kerala cadre, who managed diverse assignments during his 45 years in government service, has resigned as G20 Sherpa. He was appointed as India's G20 Sherpa in July 2022, months before India assumed the G20 Presidency.
16 June,2025 11:51 AM IST | PTIIran launched a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early Monday. Iran announced it had launched some 100 missiles and vowed further retaliation for the surprise attack on its nuclear programme and military leadership that Israel began last Friday.
16 June,2025 11:05 AM IST | APThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a severe thunderstorm and strong wind alert for the national capital, warning residents to stay indoors
16 June,2025 09:55 AM IST | ANIThe Trump administration has directed immigration officers to pause arrests at farms, restaurants and hotels, after Trump expressed alarm about the impact aggressive enforcement is having on those industries, according to a US official familiar with the matter who spoke only on the condition of anonymity
16 June,2025 09:52 AM IST | APIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday morning (local time) that there are "so many false reports of conversations that never happened and I'm not going to get into that". A spokesperson for Netanyahu told CNN that the reports of Trump rejecting an Israeli plan are "FAKE"
16 June,2025 09:49 AM IST | ANIIn an indication of how far Israel was seemingly prepared to go, a US official told The Associated Press that President Donald Trump nixed an Israeli plan to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all major policies, serves as commander-in-chief of the armed forces and controls the powerful Revolutionary Guard
16 June,2025 09:49 AM IST | APADVERTISEMENT
The last rites of former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani were performed with full state honours today. The atmosphere at the cremation ground in Rajkot was filled with deep emotion as his family, including his wife Anjali Rupani and close relatives, bid him a tearful farewell. Supporters, admirers, and senior BJP leaders gathered to pay their last respects to the veteran leader, who served as Gujarat’s 16th Chief Minister from 2016 to 2021. Rupani, a veteran leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and former Chief Minister of Gujarat, died in a tragic Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad. The devastating accident, involving Air India flight AI-171, claimed several lives and left many injured, including students from the BJ Medical College hostel near the crash site.
Goliath hatched on the island of Santa Cruz in the Galapagos on June 15, between 1885 and 1890. He arrived at the Bronx Zoo in 1929 and moved to Zoo Miami in 1981. He has bred with several different females but has never had offspring
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A groundbreaking book traces Indian men’s uneasy ties with the home, through figures like Ambedkar, Gandhi, and Premchand
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