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Venus May Bless You with Wealth and Comfort Two Malayali women killed in California; friend detained IPL media rights: Does the BCCI have a Plan B? ‘Toxic’ box office collection day 5: Yash, Nayanthara, Kiara Advani starrer crosses Rs 200 crore India net; earns Rs 23 crore on Sunday Capricorn Daily Nadi Horoscope (31st August 2026): Don’t Let a Sensitive Money Matter Travel Through the Wrong Conversation US breaks weeks-long Iran strike lull by targeting Larak island; Tehran hits American bases in Middle East File photo: PM Modi receives Uzbekistan’s top State honour ‘Oliy Darajali Dustlik’, says India, Uzbek will become “united voice for Global South” As the two countries elevated their relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership, Uzbekistan joined India in unequivocally condemning, in a joint statement, terrorism, including cross-border terrorism, in all its forms and manifestations, reiterated a zero-tolerance approach to terrorism and rejected justification of terrorism on any ground whatsoever.Even though the two countries share strong counter-terrorism cooperation, this formulation is significant as Uzbekistan has not used the specific phrase “cross-border terrorism” in past apex level joint statements, like those issued after summit meetings in 2015, 2018 and in 2020. As per sources, this reflects stronger diplomatic alignment on state-sponsored terrorism and regional security dynamics, especially in the context of the SCO summit Tuesday in which leaders will address issues like the need for stronger counter-terrorism measures and the Afghanistan situation.“The leaders called for concerted actions against terrorist entities and for disrupting terrorism financing networks, safe havens and infrastructure. They stressed that those responsible for terrorism should be held accountable and their perpetrators, their backers, facilitators and affiliates should be brought to justice,” said the statement.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesThe strongest wording so far had come in the 2020 joint statement, after a virtual summit, in which PM Narendra Modi and President Shavkat Mirziyoyev condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and also underlined the need for every country to ensure that its territory is not used to launch terrorist attacks against other countries.The leaders stressed the importance of strengthening cooperation in law enforcement and intelligence-sharing, and combating violent extremism, illicit drug trafficking, organised crime and cyber threats. They also reaffirmed in the joint statement the importance of continued cooperation under the joint working group on counter-terrorism.India and Uzbekistan, which shares a border with Afghanistan, have shared concerns about radicalisation and influx of militant groups. For India, it’s important to work with Uzbekistan and other countries in the region to prevent Afghanistan from turning into a haven for terrorist groups, particularly like the LeT and JeM based in Pakistan. Tashkent is also home to RATS, a permanent SCO body responsible for coordinating efforts by member-states against terrorism, extremism and separatism.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘Oldest Trick In RSS Playbook’: Owaisi Slams Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu-Muslim Unity Call In New YorkWho Is Divya Mittal? 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NEW DELHI: Keeping up the pressure over the issue, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to order an FIR against the persons who had committed the crime of “purification” of the rally venue in Haldwani where Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had recently addressed a public meeting, reports Devbrat Chaudhary.The appeal to the PM came a day after Rahul Gandhi addressed a press conference alleging the “purification” was the handiwork of BJP-RSS elements, and that a case should be lodged under the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act.Priyanka posted on X, “Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge addressed a rally in Haldwani, after which people from BJP-RSS ‘purified’ his stage. This ‘purification’ is not only a symbol of an extremely reprehensible and shameful mindset but also a grave violation of our Constitution and the SC/ST Act, and is a crime.”Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesPriyanka said no action has been taken even 20 days after the “crime” and sought from the Prime Minister and Modi govt reasons for their “indifference”.”If PM Modi truly respects the Constitution of our country, then he should ensure that an FIR is filed against those who committed this crime and that action is taken,” she said.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘Oldest Trick In RSS Playbook’: Owaisi Slams Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu-Muslim Unity Call In New YorkWho Is Divya Mittal? 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Recalling that film lovers believe Satyajit Ray wrote the script of ‘Nayak’ with the “mahanayak” in mind, Modi cited Ray’s assessment that the actor combined “remarkable emotional depth” with dignity. He said Kumar was known for his “natural ease” and philanthropy and “worked very hard” to bring his characters alive.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.About the AuthorManash Pratim GohainManash Pratim Gohain is a seasoned journalist with over two decades at The Times of India, where he has built a rich body of work spanning education policy, politics, and governance. Renowned for his incisive coverage of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, accreditation reforms, and skilling initiatives, he has also reported on student politics, urban policy, and social movements. His political reportage—both reflective and news-driven—adds depth to his writing, bridging policy with public impact. Through his 2,500 articles and related outlets, he has emerged as a trusted voice in national discourse, particularly in linking education reform to broader societal change.Read MoreEnd of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘Oldest Trick In RSS Playbook’: Owaisi Slams Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu-Muslim Unity Call In New YorkWho Is Divya Mittal? 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NEW DELHI: Flagging the dangers of drug addiction and its impact on not just individuals but also families and society, PM Narendra Modi Sunday urged the youth to make “creative efforts” to strengthen campaigns against the menace, including through social media.“Can you come up with a powerful slogan for a drug-free India? Can our young musicians create songs that convey the message of a drug-free life? Can students and theatre groups write touching short plays that highlight the dangers of drugs while also showing the path to recovery? Our country has no shortage of excellent content creators. I urge them to create content in various languages that helps society in this endeavour,” Modi said in Mann Ki Baat, his monthly radio address. He urged young people and those in the creative field to share their work on social media using the relevant hashtag.“Often, creative efforts prove more impactful than formal campaigns. Let us all play our part in this noble mission to keep India’s youth away from drugs and free from addiction,” Modi said, while commending those who are spreading awareness and helping people struggling with addiction.PM also highlighted the economic opportunities opening up for women and girls in India, including in space sector, and the benefits of PM SVANidhi scheme, which provides subsidised loans to street vendors. He also lauded cleanliness initiatives undertaken by citizens across the country, including during Amarnath yatra.Referring to PM SVANidhi scheme, Modi said it was helping women street vendors expand their businesses, increase their incomes and improve their families’ financial prospects. “Women account for approximately 46% of beneficiaries of PM SVANidhi. This means that around 35 lakh women across the country are expanding their businesses through this scheme,” he said.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesPM also highlighted India’s growing leadership in space technology and women-led development while praising ‘Mission ShaktiSAT’ initiative. He said it is bringing together thousands of girl students from across the world. “Through this mission, 12,000 girl students from 108 countries are getting the opportunity to learn satellite technology and advance in the field of innovation,” he said.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘Oldest Trick In RSS Playbook’: Owaisi Slams Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu-Muslim Unity Call In New YorkWho Is Divya Mittal? 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Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is also seen. India and Uzbekistan upgraded their relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership, set an annual trade target of $5 billion and closed in on an agreement for uranium supply to India, as PM Narendra Modi held talks with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Tashkent.Modi announced that India would get into a long-term arrangement for supply of uranium from Uzbekistan, a major regional producer and exporter. Both sides agreed to establish a foreign minister-level coordination council to guide all aspects of cooperation under the elevated partnership.Following the talks that focused on expanding cooperation in defence and security, trade and investment, critical minerals, AI, agriculture and health, the two sides signed 11 MoUs. The areas covered included culture, education, mining, Ayurveda, tourism and restoration of Buddhist sites.PM Modi also underscored the need for zero tolerance against terrorism and extremism, saying a stronger India-Uzbekistan partnership will be a powerful force for peace, progress and prosperity in Central Asia.PM Modi and Mirziyoyev endorsed growing defence cooperation between the two countries, including through regular exchanges, capacity-building and joint activities, and expressed in a joint statement their commitment to address common security challenges by further strengthening such cooperation. Going forward, Modi said, both sides will promote direct linkages, co-production and co-development by the defence industries of both nations. “Close defence and security cooperation between our two countries reflects our deep mutual trust,” said the PM.Outlining an ambitious agenda for moving forward with “speed and tangible results” in this new phase of their partnership, the PM said both sides will also work systematically on market access, connectivity, banking and payment systems to achieve the target of $5 billion of trade by 2030.“We will work together to boost win-win cooperation in infrastructure development. Cooperation in DPI, AI, critical minerals, clean energy, space and nuclear energy is making our relationship future-ready,” said Modi, adding that Uzbekistan is at the heart of Central Asia and at the heart of India’s engagement with the region.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesBoth sides believe that while India is one of Uzbekistan’s top 10 trading partners, their annual trade of $1.32 billion remains significantly below its true potential. In the meeting, the two agreed to undertake joint measures to broaden the range of goods traded between the two countries, remove non-tariff barriers and promote industrial cooperation with a view to further increasing bilateral trade turnover. They also decided to create a joint working group to address non-tariff issues and investment barriers.There was also focus on Global South cooperation with PM Modi saying that Uzbekistan’s highest honour for a foreign leader that was conferred on him by the president had left India with the added responsibility of working with Uzbekistan as “Global South partners for the betterment of humanity”.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘Oldest Trick In RSS Playbook’: Owaisi Slams Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu-Muslim Unity Call In New YorkWho Is Divya Mittal? 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NEW DELHI: Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, a Supreme Court judge, Sunday said though Article 124(3) permitted appointment of ‘distinguished jurists’ as judges of the apex court, it was regrettable that this provision had remained one of our Constitution’s unused mandates.“No jurist has been appointed so far to SC though Constitution has completed more than 76 years,” he said, adding that either Centre earlier or the collegium thereafter was not convinced about the depth in Indian academia or had not seriously explored Article 124(3) so far.Addressing the convocation of LLM students at National Law University, Delhi, Justice Bhuyan said, “No legal academic has yet been appointed as a judge of SC, despite there being brilliant minds who could have made a substantial contribution had they become part of the bench.”Addressing the ‘lack of practical experience’ argument against elevation of jurists as judges, he said, “SC is not only the highest adjudicatory body but it is the moral, legal and constitutional conscience-keeper of the nation. It is above technicalities.”Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesThe objective behind appointing ‘distinguished jurists’ as SC judges is to diversify as they “can be a great value addition to the bench”, he said, adding, “By his or her scholarship, he or she can make a visible contribution to the decision-making process at the top level. Participation of renowned legal academia and scholars would have a defining impact on the judicial functioning of Supreme Court.”He said academics were routinely appointed as judges to constitutional courts in US, UK, Canada and Kenya. In America, they could practise as long as it did not interfere with academic sessions, but this practice was opposed here by rule 49 of Bar Council of India, he said.In US, Felix Frankfurter became the first jurist to be an SC judge, picked by Theodore Roosevelt in 1939. Thereafter, several from legal academia have been appointed as US supreme court judges, many of whom had teaching experience prior to this role.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘Oldest Trick In RSS Playbook’: Owaisi Slams Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu-Muslim Unity Call In New YorkWho Is Divya Mittal? 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NEW DELHI: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk has said Abhijit Dipke and his fellow organisers of the Cockroach Janta Party movement appear to have political ambitions, but there is nothing objectionable in this as long as the student platform retains its non-party character.Wangchuk, in a Prakhar Gupta Xperience podcast, said Dipke and the others had not disclosed any plans to him and his view was based on his own assessment. “Political ambition is very normal,” he said. “Past political connections I don’t care about, present and future political aspirations are not a problem.”“They are not such saints that they want absolutely nothing and are doing all this entirely selflessly,” he said, referring to the possibility that the organisers had personal or political aspirations.Assessing their suitability for leadership, Wangchuk described the organisers as “well meaning”, “quite skilled” and “above average”.“Well meaning but unskilled” could create difficulties, while “very skilled but ill meaning” would pose a much greater danger, he said.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesAsked whether they could become corrupt, Wangchuk said he had seen no such indications. “People go through changes, and I hope they won’t,” he said.Wangchuk said the organisers could join an existing party or launch a new one later, but must not turn the CJP platform into their political vehicle. He said he had advised them to preserve it as a “neutral, apolitical pressure group”, arguing that this would help retain the trust of supporters who saw it as a students’ movement rather than an organisation aligned with BJP, Congress or AAP.Wangchuk acknowledged that his own standards sometimes led him to expect public figures to have no political ambition. That, he said, could be unrealistic because the organisers were ordinary people entitled to pursue political careers. Beginning such a career by championing an education-related cause could, in fact, be positive.He also expressed hope that participation in the movement would help them emerge as more mature and grounded politicians. “I am actually happy about that,” Wangchuk said of their taking up public issues.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘Oldest Trick In RSS Playbook’: Owaisi Slams Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu-Muslim Unity Call In New YorkWho Is Divya Mittal? 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A retest will be held on Sept 5 for 2,445 candidates at two centres in Jaipur as a glitch disrupted the examination.Dr Abhijat Sheth, president of National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences, said there were no complaints of paper leak, or hacking, and that the examination was conducted in a fair and transparent manner with support from state govts, police, NBEMS experts and faculty members.3-member committee to probe power failure The NEET-PG 2026 examination was conducted across all 36 states and UTs.The affected candidates were at iON Digital Zone iDZ Sitapura centres, Jaipur, where the examination could not be completed due to an internal power supply problem. Despite repeated efforts, the issue could not be resolved, forcing National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) to postpone the examination for the affected candidates.The health ministry has constituted a three-member committee to probe the power failure at the Jaipur centres. The panel comprises a senior Rajasthan govt official, a joint secretary-level officer from the health ministry and a chief engineer from the Central Electricity Authority.Dr Abhijat Sheth, president of NBEMS said re-examination for the 2,445 candidates will be conducted on Sept 5 at 3pm in Jaipur, with the board assuring that it will be conducted in the same manner and that the candidates’ performance would not be adversely affected. “We regret the inconvenience caused to the affected candidates,” he said.The nationwide examination was backed by extensive security and real-time monitoring. Around 2,527 faculty members were appointed as independent appraisers, while more than 700 senior faculty members, including deans, directors, medical superintendents and senior professors were deployed as flying squad members.Sixteen NBEMS regional command centres were operational across the country, while examination centres remained under live CCTV surveillance, monitored from the NBEMS headquarters in Dwarka.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesA dedicated team of 190 NBEMS and TCS personnel monitored the examination in real time. Officials from NBEMS, the health ministry, BEL, ECIL and TCS maintained continuous oversight from the central command centre. Aadhaar-based authentication of candidates was undertaken at examination centres as part of measures to strengthen security and prevent impersonation.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.About the AuthorAnuja JaiswalAnuja Jaiswal is a Senior Assistant Editor at The Times of India, with an impressive 18-year career in narrative journalism. She specializes in health and heritage reporting, expertly simplifying complex health information to make it engaging and understandable for readers. Her deep dives into heritage topics are well-researched, resulting in captivating narratives that resonate with her audience. Over the years, she has worked in Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh and West UP, gaining diverse on-ground experience that shapes her storytelling.Read MoreEnd of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘Oldest Trick In RSS Playbook’: Owaisi Slams Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu-Muslim Unity Call In New YorkWho Is Divya Mittal? 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PM Narendra Modi may have a bilateral meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Kyrgyzstan Monday, official sources said. While Modi landed in Bishkek Sunday, the president was scheduled to arrive Monday morning, according to reports from Tehran.Sources said efforts were on to schedule a meeting between the leaders Monday. This would be the first in-person meeting between Modi and Pezeshkian since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran on Feb 28.The two, in fact, had last met on the margins of the Brics summit in Russia’s Kazan in 2024. However, both have spoken with each other on several occasions, including after the West Asia conflict erupted, with Modi stressing the India remains a friend of Iran. Pezeshkian is also likely to visit India for the Brics summit next month.If it happens, the meeting will see Modi reiterate India’s position that all issues must be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy. He’s also expected to highlight India’s focus on ensuring the safety and well being of Indian nationals in the region, along with the importance of unhindered transit of energy and goods. The two will also discuss trade, energy and connectivity ties that have come under strain because of the expiry of US sanctions waiver for the Chabahar port.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesIn a difficult balancing act, India has continued to maintain high-level engagement with Iran while repeatedly expressing solidarity with GCC States that came under attack from Tehran for hosting US bases. However, Tehran also expects India to call out the US and Israel for their Feb 28 strikes at the Brics forum, which is currently helmed by India. With the UAE also in the group, the challenge for India would be to forge a consensus on the West Asia situation that would allow a Brics declaration to be issued.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideos‘Oldest Trick In RSS Playbook’: Owaisi Slams Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu-Muslim Unity Call In New YorkWho Is Divya Mittal? 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