New Delhi: A Delhi court has convicted a Jaipur-based art gallery owner for illegally attempting to export Shahtoosh wool shawls, made of critically endangered Tibetan Antelope underfur, and handed him a maximum prison terms of three years.This is the...

Beijing: China on Tuesday said its policy to improve relations with India has not changed as it defended its move to publish new names for various regions in Arunachal Pradesh.India on Sunday categorically rejected China's efforts to assign "fictitious...

Sonia Faleiro’s The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism is Shaping Modern Asia follows a spectre that is haunting parts of South Asia — radical Buddhism, which many would see as a contradiction in terms. Buddhism has, in public thinking and discourse, been associated with

Dharamsala: Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Laureate Dalai Lama on Tuesday endorsed the recent appeal for peace made by Pope Leo XIV.In a message issued from Dharamsala, the Buddhist leader emphasised that "violence has no place in any...

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Vingroup proposes scrapping LNG-powered plant plan for renewables amid Iran warVingroup has told Vietnam's government it wants to ditch a plan to build the country's largest LNG-fired power plant and ⁠embark on a renewable...

New Delhi: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MPs on Monday (March 30) walked out of Rajya Sabha in protest against BJP's Nishikant Dubey accusing former Odisha Chief Minister Biju Patnaik as a "CIA agent", days after its floor leader...

New Delhi: The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has strengthened its presence with 29 new border outposts along the India-China border since 2020 as part of a broader security buildup along the 3,488 km border, according to a report of...

Mysuru Even as World Tuberculosis (TB) day was observed on Tuesday, as many as 147 Gram Panchayats in Mysuru district were declared TB free under the 'TB Mukt Panchayat' initiative of Government of India, taken up by the Health and Family Welfare department...

A musical sojourn through big cat terrain

Having spent over three decades in uniform — first as a young officer learning the ropes of border policing in the unforgiving heights of the Indo-Tibetan frontier with the ITBP, and later steering the Odisha Police as its DGP...

The National People’s Congress (NPC) of the People’s Republic of China recently approved its 15th five-year plan (15FYP) for 2026-2030. If there were to be one key phrase of the new plan, it would be ‘high quality development’, which is important...

Across the uncharted

Manaslu Circuit Trek is undeniably one of the most appealing and tough treks in Nepal. Encircling the arena's eighth-highest peak, Mount Manaslu, this trek offers nature at its best with breathtaking natural wonders, cultural encounters, and a Himalayan exploration that is...

Firefighters douse blaze at Malad high‑rise in Mumbai.Wall clocks with images of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei displayed for sale outside a mosque in New Delhi.People light candles during a prayer meet and candlelight vigil to...

Beijing: China plans to further strengthen its strategic transport network in sensitive border regions with India over the next five years to fortify its remote frontiers during the 15th Five-Year Plan beginning this year.One project involves building a 394 km...

A solitary pursuit of the unattainable

A victory beyond the field: Jammu and Kashmir's moment of hope

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the Centre not to remain stuck with British-era criteria on retirement age and service conditions of armed forces personnel, and consider constituting an expert committee to revisit the parameters of "highly skilled"...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that it is high time the regulations governing service conditions and retirement age of coast guard officers were revisited as the government cannot remain bound by frameworks conceived in the British era.A...

New Delhi: Hitting back at the Congress, the BJP on Wednesday accused India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru of making repeated "territorial compromises" throughout his tenure and "redrawing" Bharat's borders forever.The BJP's criticism of Nehru comes in the backdrop...

Dharamsala (HP): The Central Tibetan Administration has commemorated the 86th anniversary of the enthronement of the 14th Dalai Lama with an official ceremony at McLeodganj, the headquarters of the de facto government-in-exile of Tibet, officials said on Monday.On February...

How Theosophy changed Hinduism

Twelve people were killed on Wednesday when a store selling firecrackers exploded ⁠and caught fire in China's Hubei ⁠province, burning 50 square ‌metres of ​the premises, state broadcaster CCTV reported.The incident occurred at an unnamed retailer in the central...

Army troops and IAF helicopters continued their efforts for the fifth day on Tuesday to control a massive forest fire that broke out at Walong, a remote location at an altitude of 3,000 to 3,500 feet in Anjaw district...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its order on a plea seeking directions for an SIT probe into the alleged irregular allotment of public contracts to the companies owned by relatives and family members of Arunachal Pradesh...

In Xi's Purge of the Military, a Search for Absolute Loyalty

Dehradun: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan said the border dispute with China followed India's recognition of Tibet as part of the that country in 1954 with the signing of Panchsheel Agreement.The chief of defence staff (CDS) was...

The release of an enormous cache of files about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein might have been expected to quell conspiracy theories about his crimes and the government’s knowledge of them. Instead, it is spawning a generation of...

A businessman was allegedly shot dead in Dehradun on Friday. The incident took place near Silver City Cinema, on Rajpur Road. This is the second murder in the city in the last 48 hours and the third in 11...

The office of Dalai Lama, in a statement, said, "Some recent media reports and social media posts concerning the 'Epstein files' are attempting to link His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Jeffrey Epstein.