Category: Events

PM Modi Saturday lashed out at critics questioning positive developments in the country NEW DELHI: PM Modi Saturday lashed out at critics questioning positive developments in the country, including the robust growth in GDP, on his govt’s watch as congenital pessimists and fault-finders, asserting the “power of truth” will eventually overwhelm the “campaign of lies”.With...

Nepal PM Balendra Shah KATHMANDU: Nepal PM Balendra Shah will make his first foreign trip almost six months after taking office when he travels to New York later this month for the 81st UN General Assembly, where Nepal’s Bhote Koshi-Trishuli disaster is expected to anchor his push for climate justice, reconstruction assistance and stronger international...

Bangladesh wants engagement and good working relationship with India DHAKA: Bangladesh wants engagement and good working relationship with India despite existing challenges, state minister for foreign affairs Humayun Kobir said Saturday, seeking continued dialogue with New Delhi.His remarks come amid strained ties between the neighbours over issues such as former PM Sheikh Hasina’s extradition and...

21-year-old BSc student has been a solitary warrior against civic mess and pollution in his hometown BHOPAL: His online followers know him as ‘Bittu Tabahi’. In reality, Surendra Singh Choudhary is the exact opposite of what the moniker ‘Tabahi’, meaning destruction, implies.For the past seven months, this 21-year-old BSc student has been a solitary warrior...

21-year-old BSc student has been a solitary warrior against civic mess and pollution in his hometown BHOPAL: His online followers know him as ‘Bittu Tabahi’. In reality, Surendra Singh Choudhary is the exact opposite of what the moniker ‘Tabahi’, meaning destruction, implies.For the past seven months, this 21-year-old BSc student has been a solitary warrior...

Two people were rescued alive from separate flood-hit sites on Saturday KATHMANDU: Two people were rescued alive from separate flood-hit sites on Saturday, 10 days after Bhote Koshi-Trishuli flood in Nepal. Chandika Kumari Shrestha, 64, was found semi-conscious on the upper floor of a four-storey house buried under debris in Betrawati, Nuwakot district, while her...

CBI has filed an FIR against Essel Group Chairman Subhash Chandra NEW DELHI: CBI has filed an FIR against Essel Group Chairman Subhash Chandra and some other individuals for allegedly defrauding LICHFL (LIC Housing Finance Ltd) of Rs 1,322 crore between 2018 and 2026. LICHFL alleged that Chandra had submitted a ‘net worth certificate’ of...

Govt has issued office memoranda making Aadhaar linking mandatory several times Over 3,100 DBT schemes and 360 public services use Aadhaar-based authentication. Yet the bureaucracy that demands Aadhaar from citizens, often the poorest, has resisted linking their own Central Govt Health Scheme cards to Aadhaar.CGHS beneficiaries include serving and retired central govt employees and family...

Govt has issued office memoranda making Aadhaar linking mandatory several times Over 3,100 DBT schemes and 360 public services use Aadhaar-based authentication. Yet the bureaucracy that demands Aadhaar from citizens, often the poorest, has resisted linking their own Central Govt Health Scheme cards to Aadhaar.CGHS beneficiaries include serving and retired central govt employees and family...

The fire left at least 22 dead At least 22 people were killed and several others injured after a fire broke out at a wedding party in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a regional mayor said on Saturday.The fire started late Friday night and continued into the early hours of Saturday...