Category: Events

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi said on Saturday that the interim trade agreement with the US is yet more evidence of the international community’s growing trust in India and said the series of recent trade deals marks country’s transformation from just a huge market to a hub of investment and trade. While addressing a community...

Sonia Gandhi NEW DELHI: Congress MP Sonia Gandhi Saturday described as “politically motivated and frivolous” a criminal revision petition before a Delhi court against a 2025 magisterial order that declined to order an FIR over alleged inclusion of her name in electoral rolls in 1980, three years before she acquired Indian citizenship. The petition before...

PM Modi in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR/NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday chose an Indian community event in Kuala Lumpur to shower praise on Tamil culture and highlight the presence of several Tamilians in key positions in India. The focus on Tamilians was, though, very much in order as they make up an overwhelming majority...

Almost 1,000 Google employees have signed an open letter demanding that the company cut ties with the US Department of Homeland Security due to the Donald Trump administration. The petition cites Google contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection CBP), and alleges that the company’s technology is being used to...

Government has spent just a little more than 40% of the budgeted amount in its biggest schemes in the first three quarters of the current fiscal and expects to spend less than 75% by the end of the year. These 53 selected schemes are those that had a budget estimate of Rs 500 crore or...

NEW DELHI: India on Friday successfully test-fired nuclear weapons-capable 3,000-km-range Agni-3 ballistic missile from Chandipur off Odisha coast.The surface-to-surface missile was launched from a mobile launcher as part of a regular training exercise. “The launch validated all operational and technical parameters. It was carried out under the aegis of the Strategic Forces Command (SFC),” a...

Rafale jet NEW DELHI: Ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to India for the Artificial Intelligence Summit from Feb 18 to 20, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by defence minister Rajnath Singh, is scheduled to meet in the second week of this month to consider big-ticket defence procurement proposals, a defence source told...

NEW DELHI: India and the US have discussed ways to strengthen collaboration in “critical and emerging defence technologies” to meet the evolving requirements at a key meeting hosted here, officials said.Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) hosted the 24th Indo-US Joint Technical Group Plenary Meeting in New Delhi on Feb 3 and 4, they said....

JAMMU: Over 1.7 crore tourists visited Jammu & Kashmir in 2025, including over 36,000 foreign visitors, the govt informed the assembly on Saturday.In a written reply to a starred question raised by Hasnain Masoodi, MLA, the tourism department gave out a figure of 1,77,65,390 tourists having visited the Union territory between Jan 1 and Dec...

JAMMU: Under PM Narendra Modi’s leadership, Govt of India (GoI) remains firmly committed to the vision of building a developed and prosperous Jammu and Kashmir, Union home minister Amit Shah said at a high-level meeting he chaired on Saturday to review the progress of development projects in the Union Territory.The meeting was attended by LG...