Congress veteran Sharma bows out as foreign affairs chief, urges generational shift

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New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) In a move laden with both symbolism and consequence, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma has stepped down as chairman of the party’s Foreign Affairs Department, ending a decade-long stewardship that helped shape the party’s global engagements. His resignation, formally submitted to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, was framed as a gesture to facilitate generational renewal within the department. Yet, the timing and context suggest deeper tremors within the party…

Madhya Pradesh records highest-ever exports, climbs to 11th national rank

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Bhopal, Aug 10 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh has registered its highest-ever export value of Rs 66,218 crore in the financial year 2024–25, marking a 6 per cent year-on-year growth and propelling the state’s national export ranking from 15th to 11th, according to the latest report by the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO). A statement released by state government quoting the report said, the surge has been driven primarily by robust performance in pharmaceuticals, engineering goods, an…

Northeast Frontier Railway registers 2.37 pc growth in freight unloading

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Guwahati, Aug 10 (IANS) The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) continues to record consistent growth in freight unloading activities, officials said on Sunday. NFR’s Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO), Kapinjal Kishore Sharma, said that during the month of July 2025, a total of 1,081 freight-carrying rakes were unloaded, marking a 2.37 per cent increase compared to the same period last year.He said that a significant portion of this freight traffic supports the seven northeastern states.In July…

IAF mourns 1971 war hero Group Captain D.K. Parulkar

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New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) The Indian Air Force (IAF), on Sunday, mourned the passing of Group Captain Dilip Kamalkar Parulkar (Retd), a recipient of Vayu Sena Medal and Vishisht Seva Medal as well as a decorated 1971 War hero, remembered for his exceptional courage, ingenuity, and unwavering pride in the IAF. All Air Warriors expressed heartfelt condolences on the demise of the veteran, who led one of the most daring escape attempts from captivity in Pakistan. Commissioned into the IAF in March 1…

Three boys go missing from Shimla’s oldest boarding school; traced after 24 hours (Ld)

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Shimla, Aug 10 (IANS) Three minor students of one of the oldest premier boys’ boarding schools for boys in Asia, the Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, founded in 1859, have gone missing under mysterious circumstances while on a weekly day out in the Himachal Pradesh capital, the police said on Sunday. However, after 24 hours of the disappearance they were traced by the police from Kotkahai, state’s prominent apple belt in upper Shimla, on Sunday. One of the students, who belongs to Mohali, is …

Thiruvananthapuram–Delhi Air India flight makes emergency landing at Chennai; five MPs onboard

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Chennai, Aug 10 (IANS) An Air India flight travelling from Thiruvananthapuram towards Delhi, carrying several senior political leaders, was forced to make an emergency landing at Chennai airport late on Sunday, following a suspected radar malfunction. Flight AI 2455, which took off from Thiruvananthapuram, had among its passengers, four MPs from Kerala — Congress General Secretary K.C. Venugopal, UDF Convenor Adoor Prakash, senior Congress leader Kodikunnil Suresh, and K. Radhakrishnan — along…

Western Rly's Ahmedabad division flags off first industrial salt rake, sets freight milestone

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Ahmedabad, Aug 10 (IANS) Western Railway’s Ahmedabad Division has achieved another milestone in freight transportation, dispatching its first-ever rake of industrial salt from Sanosara Goods Shed (Gandhidham region) to Dahej, as per an official Gujarat government statement.The 58 BOXNHL wagon rake, loaded with 3,851.2 tonnes of industrial salt from Chowgule Salt Works Pvt. Ltd., covered a distance of 673.57 km, generating Rs 31.69 lakh in freight revenue. Ahmedabad Division is the Western Rail…

Gujarat Minister sees off 28 tribal students on first flight to ISRO under ‘Tapi ke Taare’ project

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Surat, Aug 10 (IANS) Gujarat’s Minister in charge of Tapi district, Mukesh Patel, visited Surat Airport on Sunday to bid farewell to 28 tribal students embarking on their first flight to Sriharikota as part of the ‘Tapi ke Taare’ project. The students, from the science stream of 15 government schools in the district, will undertake an educational tour of ISRO’s satellite launch centre from August 10 to 13.At the airport, Patel interacted with the students about their first air travel exp…

A dial to destiny: Chhattisgarh boy gets calls from Kohli, AB de Villiers & other cricket royalty

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Raipur, Aug 10 (IANS) In a tale that reads like fiction but occurred in rural reality, a young man from the village of Madagaon in Gariaband district found himself momentarily at the centre of India’s cricketing universe—all because of a reactivated SIM card. Twenty-one-year-old Manish Bisi, son of a local farmer, had purchased a new SIM card from a mobile shop in Deobhog on June 28, unaware that the number once belonged to Rajat Patidar, captain of Royal Challengers Bengaluru and one of the…

Army Chief labels Hamas a terrorist group for first time, signals shift in India’s security concerns

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New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) In a significant statement, Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi on Sunday named Hamas among terrorist organisations that India is concerned about, placing it alongside groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and The Resistance Front (TRF).“The terrorist groups such as Hamas, LeT, TRF and some more names coming up… they’ll be the permanent part that India is concerned (about),” Gen Dwivedi said at an event hosted by IIT-Madras.This is the first time an Indian Army chief…