Category: Events

MUMBAI: With the peace plan for West Asia moving ahead-though under clouds of uncertainty-investors around the world are slowly taking bets that the war would end soon. Most markets across the globe moved up, including in India. However, in early trades, the US markets were marginally lower. On Friday, although crude prices hovered around the...

To woo women voters in Assam, BJP and Congress have pitched competing cash-transfers. In Assam, the BJP sankalp patra promised that the monthly direct bank transfer under Orunodoi scheme would be increased to Rs 3,000 for women and that it aims for 40 lakh “lakhpati baideos , a flagship initiative to economically empower women. Congress,...

NEW DELHI: Observing that inflationary pressures do not discriminate between a serving employee and a pensioner, hitting the two equally, Supreme Court Friday held that fixing differential rates of enhancement of inflation-linked dearness benefits for the two categories is arbitrary and cannot be allowed. A bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Prasanna B Varale disapproved...

NEW DELHI: Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal has held talks with his counterparts from the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain as well as the Gulf Cooperation Council and assured India’s support in addressing supply chain challenges, especially food. During his calls, he underlined the need to maintain peace in the region that has come under...

NEW DELHI: US secretary of state Marco Rubio will visit India next month, said ambassador Sergio Gor after a meeting that Rubio had with visiting Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri. This will be Rubio’s first visit to India since he assumed office after the return of President Donald Trump to the White House. Welcoming Misri...

NEW DELHI: “You pocket all the profits when the going is good but instantly pass on costs when things turn adverse. A little sharing of burden may not be bad for you” – the purported remark by a senior govt functionary has sent ripples across govt circles. The functionary is said to have made the...

Today, April 11, is a deeply special day for all of us. It is the birth anniversary of Mahatma Jyotirao Phule, one of India’s greatest social reformers and a guiding light for generations. This year, the occasion carries even greater significance, as it marks the beginning of his 200th birth anniversary celebrations. Mahatma Phule was...

General Upendra Dwivedi NEW DELHI: Revealing the reason for the timing chosen for Operation Sindoor last year, Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi has said that Indian Army deliberately delayed a planned strike to avoid disrupting ‘namaz’ at a terrorist camp.In a podcast, the Army chief said the operation involved flexible timing, but the commanders kept...

KOLKATA: A Trinamool worker has alleged that his name has been deleted from the final electoral roll of West Bengal and added to the Bihar voter list. Krishnendu Mukherjee, 44, a Trinamool booth-level agent from Beliaghata, said he is seeking legal advice to resolve the issue. According to Mukherjee, his name appeared in the draft...

NEW DELHI: In a big indigenisation push, the Indian Navy has taken a big step to invite Indian companies to develop and manufacture critical subsystems of its carrier-based Russian-built MiG-29K fighter fleet. The move is aimed at improving aircraft availability, reducing dependence on foreign suppliers and strengthening India’s self-reliance on critical aircraft components.The MiG-29K is...