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Bihar Police denies reports of BJP leader killed during lathicharge amid protests in Patna

ION correspondentJuly 13, 2023July 13, 2023

A controversy broke out over the ‘death’ of a Bihar BJP leader during the party’s march towards the state assembly on Thursday. The saffron party alleged that its Jehanabad...

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Saab wins contract to deliver Carl-Gustaf Ammunitions, Anti-Tank Weapons To U.S. Army.

ION correspondentJuly 12, 2023July 12, 2023

By Michael Baruah, our North America Correspondent. The US has awarded Saab an $81.8 million contract for producing and delivering AT4 anti-tank weapons and Carl-Gustaf ammunition. The US Army,...

Field news Top Stories

IAI unveils Israel’s first unmanned submarine.

Deepak BoraJuly 12, 2023July 12, 2023

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). May 9, 2023. Defence company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has presented its BlueWhale large autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). BlueWhale is intended for covert intelligence-gathering operations,...

Featured Top Stories

On This Day in 2020. Comet NEOWISE.

ION correspondentJuly 12, 2023July 12, 2023

July 5, 2020. Since NASA Earth Observatory started publishing images in 1999, the archive has grown to contain more than 17,000 stories. This week, Image of the Day stories...

Business and Commerce Top Stories

Red alert in Himachal and Uttarakhand as rain fury continues for day 4

ION correspondentJuly 12, 2023July 12, 2023

Rains for a fourth consecutive day led to several deaths, landslides, and destruction across North India. The scale of the damage in the entire region has been captured in...

Nation Top Stories

Cancer-fighting drugs, medicines for rare diseases and food products for special medical purposes exempted from GST

ION correspondentJuly 12, 2023July 12, 2023

The GST Council has decided to exempt cancer-fighting drugs, medicines for rare diseases, and food products for special medical purposes from the GST regime. This was announced by Union...

States Top Stories

Many homes flooded as Delhi Yamuna level highest in 45 years, may touch all-time high today

ION correspondentJuly 12, 2023July 12, 2023

The Yamuna river in Delhi swelled to 207.25 metres and was flowing precariously close to the all-time record level of 207.49 metres reached in 1978, government agencies said on...

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets mercenary Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin

ION correspondentJuly 12, 2023July 12, 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin met mercenary Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin recently. According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the meeting was held on 29th June, five days after the mutiny...

Sports Top Stories

India, West Indies Test series begins today

ION correspondentJuly 12, 2023July 12, 2023

The first of the two-match Test series between India and the West Indies begins this evening at Windsor Park in Roseau, Dominica of the Caribbean islands. World No. 1...

Sports Top Stories

Djokovic, Sinner, Svitolina and Vondrousova sail into semifinals of Wimbledon

ION correspondentJuly 12, 2023July 12, 2023

India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden have entered the quarterfinals of the Men’s Doubles of Wimbledon in London. The sixth seed Indo-Australian pair defeated the Dutch-American...