Spread the love File photo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Cabinet on Tuesday adopted a resolution hailing the achievements of Narendra Modi in the last 25 years, first as chief minister of Gujarat and subsequently as PM.I&B minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the resolution marks Modi’s uninterrupted public service between Oct 7, 2001 and Oct 7, 2026....
Opposition’s anti-SIR-CEC march turns into INDIA bloc-government face-off
Spread the love The eight-hour dharna by opposition netas ended with their detentions NEW DELHI: The opposition’s protest march to Election Commission headquarters on the SIR-CEC issue Tuesday turned into a high-octane confrontation between Modi govt and INDIA bloc, leading to an eight-hour dharna by Rahul Gandhi and his colleagues at Akashvani Bhavan and ending with their detention in late-evening...
CBI raids CM Bhagwant Mann’s camp office, his OSD’s home in graft probe
Spread the love Central forces stand guard as CBI searches Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann’s camp office in Chandigarh NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: CBI registered an FIR against Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s OSD Rajbir Ghuman and five others Tuesday, following it up with raids on eight locations, including the CM’s camp office in Chandigarh.The coordinated search came within hours of the state...
Indian research can shape the world
Spread the love People fret about the buses India has missed in its technological growth. The list is familiar: aircraft, advanced weapons, new materials, and biotechnology. In each, we look at what others built decades ago and ask why we did not. There is value in this introspection, and there is danger. The value is that it forces us to ask...
British Indian peer Lord Ranger wins right to judicial review of CBE annulment
Spread the love File photo: Rami Ranger LONDON: British Indian Tory peer Lord Rami Ranger, aka Raminder Singh Ranger, has won a historic right to judicial review of the decision to strip him of his CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2024 after he was accused of breaching the parliamentary code of conduct.Lord Ranger took the...
Astronomers find ‘phoenix planet’ born from ashes of a dying star
Spread the love Representative image A team of astronomers led by the University of Warwick in England has discovered a rare second-generation planet orbiting the ashes of the dead star from which it was born, a smouldering white dwarf.White dwarfs are the collapsed dead cores left behind when stars run out of fuel. They are known to pull in nearby...
As US-India ties face turbulence, American lawmakers honor pilot’s courage
Spread the love US lawmaker Josh Gottheimer The TOI correspondent from Washington: In a rare gesture of congressional recognition for an Indian national, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced a resolution honoring Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot who helped prevent a suicidal terrorist attack aboard a Flydubai flight bound for Israel last week.The resolution, introduced Monday by...
‘I am already sleepy’: Jet-lagged Shreyas Iyer’s candid reply after maiden T20I ton
Spread the love Skipper Shreyas Iyer (Image: IANS) Three days after celebrating an Asian Games gold medal in Japan, Shreyas Iyer was back in action thousands of kilometres away in India and the skipper somehow found enough energy to produce the innings of his T20I career.Iyer and several members of India’s Asian Games squad travelled back after beating Pakistan in...
Pakistan successfully test-fires extended version of Fatah-4 cruise missile
Spread the love Senior Pakistan army officers, together with scientists and engineers, were reportedly present to watch the launch. Pakistan successfully test-fired its homemade extended version of the ground-based Fatah-4 cruise missile on Tuesday.The cruise missile is capable of engaging long-range targets with high precision, the army said. PTI reported.In a statement, Pakistan Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the “weapon...
‘Expert in theatrics’: BJP hits out at Rahul over protest ‘drama’ at Akashvani Bhawan
Spread the love BJP hits Rahul Gandhi over EC meeting demand, calls protest ‘drama’ NEW DELHI: The BJP on Tuesday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of staging ‘drama’ over his demand to meet the Election Commission. BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi called the Leader of Opposition ‘an expert in theatrics’ and alleged that the poll panel’s statement had exposed what he...
