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Manisha Mhaiskar appointed additional chief secretary (home) as Iqbal Singh Chahal retires

India, Jan. 31 -- The state government on Tuesday appointed senior IAS officer Manisha Mhaiskar as the additional chief secretary (home), replacing Iqbal Singh Chahal, who retired. A 1992-batch IAS o... Read More


Interstate buses from Delhi's Kashmere Gate may be diverted to Dehradun, Eastern Peripheral expressways

India, Jan. 31 -- The Delhi Traffic Police have recommended that interstate buses headed to North India from the Kashmere Gate Inter-State Bus Terminal (ISBT) be diverted onto the newly opened Dehradu... Read More


How to stop a user-chatbot relationship from becoming unhealthy

New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- Sometimes I can't help myself. I do a bit of unwise shopping and end up showing ChatGPT a new saree I bought. I dare not show it to anyone else and be asked whether I really, rea... Read More


The week in charts: India-EU FTA, 2026 Padma Awards, India's EM ranking

New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- india eu fta, emerging market tracker, mint em tracker, padma awards 2026, economic survey 2026, india gdp forecast, union budget 2026, adventure tourism india, industrial produc... Read More


Saturday Feeling: The videos we can't stop watching, safari menus go gourmet and other stories to read

New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- Before it was banned in India, TikTok ate up unhealthy amounts of my day. I got a lot of eye-rolls when I said it but I loved the humour, the carefree attitude and the reality of... Read More


India-EU FTA, Mercedes and Landmark Cars: A pure luxury play

New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- Under the India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA), India plans to sharply cut import duties on cars made in the European Union (EU), from the current 110% to 10%, within an annual qu... Read More


Rooftop gunshot mystery: Groping in the dark, Lucknow police likely to reconstruct scene

LUCKNOW, Jan. 31 -- More than six weeks after a three-year-old girl was struck by a stray bullet while playing on her terrace in Indira Nagar's Bastauli locality within the Ghazipur police station lim... Read More


'Antithetical to the right to life with dignity': Supreme Court declares menstrual hygiene a fundamental right

India, Jan. 31 -- The Supreme Court on Friday held that access to menstrual hygiene is inseparable from the constitutional right to life, ruling that forcing girls to manage menstruation without priva... Read More


Navy, Delhi Police given awards for best marching squads at R-Day parade

New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- Minister of state for defence Sanjay Seth on Friday gave away awards to the Indian Navy for being the best marching contingent among the three services at the 77th Republic Day p... Read More


CIMAP's Kisan Mela: Touching lives of farmers, tales of success ventures come to fore

LUCKNOW, Jan. 31 -- A two-day Kisan Mela got underway on the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP) campus on Friday, with farm... Read More