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China leads, US follows-Everest emerges as frontier for high-altitude drone tech

Kathmandu, May 2 -- It was China that first tested its heavy-lift drone on Mount Everest and succeeded. Now, an American drone company is vying to replicate that achievement, signalling a new technolo... Read More


Costlier LPG sparks quiet crisis in migrant homes in Delhi

India, May 2 -- In a cramped rented room in northwest Delhi's Prem Nagar, 25-year-old painter Chandan Poddar is doing the math again. He earns Rs.18,000 a month and shares aliving space with nine othe... Read More


Tracing illicit wealth stashed abroad is easier said than done

Kathmandu, May 2 -- The government has expanded the mandate of a high-level probe commission to investigate not only the domestic assets of senior politicians and bureaucrats who have been in office s... Read More


Rama Duwaji visits India nearly 4 months after Zohran Mamdani takes oath as NYC mayor

India, May 2 -- Artist Rama Duwaji recently shared a picture dump on Instagram, capturing her visit to India, almost four months after her husband, Zohran Mamdan, took the oath as the mayor of New Yor... Read More


Bridge collapses in Jammu's Bantalab, 1 labourer dead, 2 buried under debris

JAMMU, May 2 -- A mason was rescued, the body of a labourer was retrieved and two others are still trapped under the debris after an old bridge collapsed near Thathar in the Bantalab area of Jammu cit... Read More


Best of the Week: Bengal awaits verdict after a tightly fought election

New Delhi, May 2 -- Dear reader, With voting now wrapped up across West Bengal and counting set for 3 May, the state finds itself at a tense yet familiar crossroads. After 15 years in power, Mamata B... Read More


In Ladakh, Shah pushes for peace & middle path

Jammu/ Srinagar:, May 2 -- Amid protracted agitation by the Leh Apex Body (LAB) and the Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) over statehood and constitutional safeguards under the sixth schedule of the Co... Read More


Union power secretary reviews SJVN hydro projects in Himachal

Shimla, May 2 -- Union power secretary Pankaj Agarwal visited SJVN's hydroelectric projects in Himachal Pradesh on Friday. He was accompanied by Diwakar Nath Misra, additional secretary (Hydro and EC&... Read More


Varanasi to get 21-km long elevated Varuna corridor, DPR submitted

VARANASI, May 2 -- The Detailed Project Report (DPR) for 21-kilometre elevated road corridor-to be built along the Varuna river from approximately two kilometres ahead of Harahua to the confluence of ... Read More


'Connecting Link' launch triggers chaos on Mum-Pune E-way

India, May 2 -- It is unusual for the chief minister to offer an apology while inaugurating a mega-infrastructure project but, on Friday, Devendra Fadnavis had little choice. The project, famously cal... Read More