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Modern world is full of fast moving individuals who live in a metropolitan highly polluted city and hardly have any time for themselves. They don’t know what mother nature does to them – Healing.As a pulmonologist, I have seen the impact of polluted air on the lungs and on top of it comes the effect…

Soldiers practice military drills with heavy artillery (AP Photo), and Lt Gen Sumer Ivan D’Cunha (ANI). NEW DELHI: Director general of Army Air Defence, Lt Gen Sumer Ivan D’Cunha, on Monday said that India has the capability to strike targets anywhere within Pakistan. Speaking in the context of Operation Sindoor, he explained that the Indian…

MS Dhoni (BCCI/IPL Photo) NEW DELHI: Former India cricketer and 2007 T20 World Cup hero Joginder Sharma believes the time has come for Chennai Super Kings (CSK) legend MS Dhoni to “rest.” The five-time IPL champions, known for their consistency with 12 playoff appearances, endured a disappointing campaign in the 2025 season, failing to make…

NEW DELHI: Judges are also human and they can make mistakes while judging, Justice Abhay S Oka said Monday while admitting that he committed a mistake in deciding a case as a Bombay HC judge in 2016 relating to interpretation of the Domestic Violence Act and said it was a continuous learning process for judges.While…

GUWAHATI: Manipur’s Shirui Lily fest is set to return Tuesday after a two-year pause, signalling efforts toward peace in a state scarred by ethnic unrest.The fest, set from May 20-24, celebrates the state flower Shirui Lily found only in Shirui Hills of Tangkhul Naga-majority Ukhrul district. The fest marks the 75th anniversary of Lilium mackliniae‘s…

Putin and Zelenskyy have only met once, in 2019. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that Kyiv and its partners were considering setting up a meeting of the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, the US, EU countries and Britain as part of a push to end Moscow’s war in Ukraine.Speaking to reporters in Kyiv after holding…

SRINAGAR: The Union govt has rejected PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti’s objection to the J&K govt approving the mobilisation of 4,000 ex-servicemen to guard vital infrastructure across the Union territory, saying retired Army personnel are highly trained and in the best position to carry out this task.Mehbooba had asked the J&K govt to rethink the initiative…

US PresidentDonald Trump following his telephonic conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Moscow and Kyiv will “immediately start negotiations toward a ceasefire”. The comments came after his two-hour long conversation with Putin. Trump further said that the conditions for the ceasefire will be negotiated between the two parties.“Just completed my two hour call…

NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing political slugfest between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party after Rahul Gandhi questioned the government over Operation Sindoor, Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday took a veiled jab at the grand old party and its top brass with a poetic reference from Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s Rashmirathi.In a social media…

Russia president Vladimir Putin received a telephone call from US President Donald Trump on Monday, according to a White House source who spoke anonymously to AFP. Trump aims to resolve the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, which began with Russia’s military intervention.Earlier on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt indicated that Trump’s primary objective for…