NEW DELHI: Keeping with its first responder commitment in humanitarian crises, India has dispatched the first tranche of 21 tonne relief material within hours of receiving of a request from typhoon Yagi-hit Myanmar, government said on Tuesday.Indian Navy’s INS Satpura, carrying HADR pallets with tents, generator sets, ready-to-eat meals, kitchen sets, solar lamps, medical supplies,…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated ‘Subhadra’, a flagship program initiated by the Odisha Government. The scheme aims to benefit over one crore women across the state.As per the scheme’s guidelines, all eligible women beneficiaries aged between 21 and 60 years will receive financial assistance of Rs. 50,000 over a period of…
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena MLA Sanjay Gaikwad on Monday sparked a fresh controversy after he placed a bounty of Rs 11 lakh to anyone who will “chop off the tongue” of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his statements on reservations during his US trip. “While he was abroad, Rahul Gandhi said that he wants to…
KOZHIKODE: Kerala’s Malappuram district reported its second Nipah death Sunday within less than two months of the first after a test at Pune’s National Virology Institute confirmed that a Thiruvali native who died on Sept 9 was carrying the zoonotic virus.The deceased, 24, was a student in Bengaluru and returned to his native village of…
NEW DELHI: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Anil Vij said on Sunday that he would stake claim for chief minister‘s post on “people’s demand” and on the basis of “seniority,” if the party comes to power in Haryana. The comments come at a time when the saffron party has already chosen Nayab Singh Saini as…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said Hindi must be made acceptable, flexible and conversational, and stressed the need to promote it by strengthening all Indian regional languages and establishing their mutual congruence.Shah, while addressing the official language‘s diamond jubilee celebrations and the 4th Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan here coinciding with Hindi Diwas,…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Saturday levelled fresh allegations of conflict of interest against Sebi chief Madhabi Puri-Buch, accusing her of making “high value investments” outside India including Chinese firms, amid rising geopolitical tensions with the neighbouring country.The grand old party also accused Buch of trading in listed securities while being in possession of unpublished price…
NEW DELHI: Shooters from Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh and the Trans-Yamuna region allegedly bumped off Dubai-based entrepreneur Nadir Shah in south Delhi’s Greater Kailash I on Thursday night, a probe has revealed. Delhi Police’s Special Cell has managed to detain around seven suspects – four of whom have been placed under arrest – for the brazen…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday broke silence on the recent controversy around the Netflix’s recent series ‘IC 814 The Kandahar Hijack’ and recalled another hijack story of 1984 in which his father was on the flight.Jaishankar, who was addressing Indian dispora in Geneva, said he hasn’t seen the series but added…
NEW DELHI: India and China agreed to redouble their efforts and work urgently to achieve complete disengagement in the remaining areas of eastern Ladakh, which India sees as essential for normalising Sino-Indian ties, in a meeting between NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi on the margins of BRICS NSAs meeting in St…
