Hong Kong on Saturday began a three-day official mourning period for the victims of the catastrophic fire at the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Tai Po, as the death toll rose to 128 and investigations expanded. Authorities announced the arrest of eight...

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MUMBAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on Thursday that the government is moving toward opening the nuclear sector to private participation has drawn both interest and caution from experts. Modi said the reform would accelerate the development of small...

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MUMBAI: Not a single major Indian city recorded “good” air quality at any time in the past decade, according to a new assessment of urban pollution trends. The study, conducted by environmental research group Climate Trends, found that none of the 11 largest cities...

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday took serious note of a disturbing incident in Haryana, where three women sanitation workers at Maharshi Dayanand University were forced to send photographs of their sanitary pads to prove they were menstruating. In response, the...

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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to travel to Jordan and Oman in mid-December, at a time when West Asian nations are working to sustain the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. This would be Modi’s second visit to Oman—one of the countries with which India is...

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NEW DELHI: India stands firmly for peace and dialogue but will never “compromise” on national sovereignty and security, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday. Speaking at the Chanakya Defence Dialogue, Singh asserted that India’s growing economic strength,...

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