Goyal with NZ trade minister Todd McClay in Auckland AUCKLAND: After five days of talks in two cities, the fourth round of negotiations on the India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) concluded with both sides preparing the ground for a robust treaty. Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal and New Zealand minister for trade Todd…
Lucknow: UP deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya on Saturday appealed to the people of Bihar to ensure the victory of the NDA, saying that it would give a new direction to the state’s development and prosperity. Maurya addressed election rallies in Bagaha and Ramnagar assembly constituencies of Champaran district.Addressing the rally in Bagaha, Maurya urged…
SHAMLI/ROHTAK: Four friends from Haryana’s Sonipat district were killed late Friday night when their car rammed into a canter on the Panipat-Khatima highway near the Butrada flyover in Shamli, report Sachin Sharma & Sat Singh. Police said the group had set off for Haridwar on an impulse trip to take a holy dip in the…
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Real Estate Appellate Tribunal (REAT) has set aside a Rs 1 crore penalty imposed on the Delhi Development Authority by Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) for failing to register a housing project. The relief came after DDA argued that the Rohini project was completed before the RERA for Delhi was established in…
BENGALURU: A Rapido bike-taxi driver was arrested on Saturday in Bengaluru on charges of sexually harassing a 20-year-old woman during a trip. Lokesh (28), designated as “Rapido Captain” as the ride-hailing service calls its drivers, is accused of harassing the woman on Thursday. She shared her ordeal on Instagram, leading cops to take cognisance. The…
Cornell University has reached a settlement with the Trump administration that restores hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding, ending a months-long standoff over civil rights compliance and federal oversight. Earlier this year, the administration withheld $250 million from the university, citing alleged civil rights violations, a move that threatened critical research programmes…
SILCHAR: A first-year BTech student of NIT Silchar drowned and two of his batchmates went missing after slipping into a deep section of Bouchal waterfall near Hmunthajao in Assam‘s Dima Hasao district on Saturday, reports BB Goswami.Police said the students – Sohardya Rai (20) and Sarb Kritika (20) from Uttar Pradesh, and Radhika (19) from…
SRINAGAR: Soldiers shot dead two infiltrators attempting to cross the LoC in Keran sector of J&K’s Kupwara, about 140km north of Srinagar, the Army said Saturday. The gunfight, part of “Op Pimple”, followed specific intelligence on an infiltration attempt Friday evening. Troops detected “suspicious activity”, challenged the group and came under “indiscriminate fire”, the Army…
SRINAGAR: J&K police seized an AK-47 rifle from the personal locker of a doctor once posted at government medical college in Anantnag during a search of the campus following his arrest Thursday for his alleged role in putting up posters supporting Pakistan-backed banned outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed in Srinagar.Dr Adeel Majeed Rather served at the college as…
JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir’s state investigation agency (SIA) Saturday arrested the alleged kingpin of a narco-terror module from Mumbai airport. The agency has secured a three-day transit remand to take him into custody.Mohammed Arshad alias Asif, resident of Degwar-Terwan in Haveli, Poonch district, had been absconding since 2023 and was operating from Saudi Arabia, an…
