At least 18 people were killed and several others injured after a passenger bus plunged into a river in Nepal’s Dhading district in the early hours of Monday. The bus, en route from Pokhara to Kathmandu with more than 35 passengers on board, veered off the Prithvi...

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An Indian national has been sentenced to 18 years in a US federal prison for his role in a large-scale fraud scheme that targeted elderly victims, many of whom were persuaded to part with their life savings. Twenty-three-year-old Atharva Shailesh Sathawane was handed...

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Kolkata: A Kolkata City Sessions Court on Friday sentenced three men convicted of spying for Pakistan and running a counterfeit currency racket to 10 years in prison, while a fourth accused was awarded five years’ imprisonment. Among those convicted was Pakistani...

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New Delhi: India’s long-pending revision of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) may be announced soon, nearly 17 years after they were last updated in 2009. The development comes after Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur submitted its final technical...

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Lucknow: Natural disasters such as cloudbursts, landslides and flash floods have become more frequent in the Himalayan region in recent years due to climate change, unplanned construction, indiscriminate road cutting, hydropower projects and deforestation, Himalayan...

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NEW DELHI: US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor on Friday reiterated Washington’s position that India has committed to refraining from purchasing Russian oil, saying US President Donald Trump does not want any country procuring Russian crude as he seeks to bring an end...

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