Spread the love       Wangchuk also accused JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh of breaking a promise not to release photos of them offering him soup until he could announce the end of his fast NEW DELHI: Sonam Wangchuk said his wife Gitanjali had tried to get Rahul Gandhi to offer him juice to end his 26-day hunger strike at Jantar Mantar...

Spread the love       Three minority breakaway Trinamool Congress MPs will meet PM Modi over breakfast on Friday KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: Three minority breakaway Trinamool Congress MPs, who are now with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) and have so far refused to be a part of the BJP-led NDA, will meet PM Narendra Modi over breakfast on Friday.Murshidabad lawmakers Abu...

Spread the love       President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday in Washington. (AP Photo) US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he believes the conflict involving Iran is likely to end soon and claimed that Tehran cannot sustain the war for much longer.Speaking from the Oval Office in Washington, Trump also expressed optimism...

Spread the love       The Centre maintained that altering reservation policies requires empirical research and legislative action. NEW DELHI: Opposing the application of the ‘creamy layer’ criterion for exclusion of affluent members of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe communities from benefits of reservation in jobs and admissions to educational institutions, the government has told the Supreme Court that discrimination against SCs/STs...

Spread the love       The affirmation of friendship comes at a time of Israel losing supporters over Netanyahu’s military offensive in retaliation for Hamas’s terror attack NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday received a telephone call from his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, with the two reviewing progress on various facets of both countries’ special strategic partnership and also exchanging...

Spread the love       A few allies argued that opposition should join the discussion if govt puts FCRA bill on agenda NEW DELHI: Briefing the opposition parties about his discussion with parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on the delimitation bill a day earlier, LoP Rahul Gandhi Thursday said he told govt that the opposition stand remains the same, and that women’s...

Spread the love       The case stems from the Bofors scandal involving the Rs 1,437 crore howitzer gun deal signed between India and Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors in 1986 NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea challenging the Delhi High Court’s 2005 decision that had quashed criminal proceedings against the Hinduja brothers in the Bofors payoff case, effectively...

Spread the love       The minister termed the force the first responders, who provide immediate relief and support during natural calamities. NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday described the Territorial Army’s contribution as “significant” in advancing the government’s vision of ‘Viksit Bharat’ and emphasised that while the role of the defence forces revolves primarily around security-related aspects, the Territorial...

Spread the love       He also said all 5 types of motors for the crew escape system (CES) have been developed and successfully static tested NEW DELHI: Space minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday informed the Rajya Sabha that India’s first human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan, has achieved major milestones in the development and validation of critical human-rating systems, marking steady progress towards...

Spread the love       On-screen setup running multibody dynamics simulations and tracking system capturing hardware test data for position and velocity for correlation BENGALURU: What if satellites could simply plug into a power bank instead of drifting away when they run out of fuel? That’s the idea driving a Bengaluru startup building “jetpack” satellites designed to latch onto ageing spacecraft, take...