NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill 2025 to further liberalise norms for investors and empower states with the aim of boosting exploration for critical and strategic minerals.The amendment Bill, introduced on August 11, was passed by voice vote amid Opposition din. Under the amended…
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress politician P Chidambaram on Monday hit out at chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, citing remarks of three former election commissioners at a conclave held by a television channel, where they disapproved of the CEC’s demand that Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi either file an affidavit on his “vote…
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Lucknow: Ramayan-themed wax museum coming up at Ayodhya is now ready for inauguration by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during the ninth Deepotsav celebration, an official spokesperson said on Wednesday. Termed first of its kind in the world, the museum, built in collaboration with Ayodhya Municipal Corporation, is located opposite Kashiram Colony on Chaudah Kosi Parikrama…
The mythological animated film ‘Mahavatar Narshima’, which has been enjoying its golden run at the box office, showed signs of slowing down on its fourth Thursday, but as the latest box office reports indicate, the film saw an upward trend on Friday.According to early estiamtes on sacnilk.com, the film earned an estimated Rs 2 crore,…
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Vietnam’s VinFast enters India with ‘whole ecosystem’; launches VF 6 and VF 7 SUVs (Picture credit: X/@VinFastIN) Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) maker VinFast has formally stepped into the Indian market with a strategy that goes beyond selling cars, aiming instead to build a complete ecosystem spanning mobility, infrastructure and lifestyle.Pham Sanh Chau, CEO of VinFast…
NEW DELHI: Five Congress MPs including party general secretary KC Venugopal on Tuesday wrote to civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, urging a “comprehensive and time-bound investigation” into what they described as “serious safety lapses” on an Air India flight from Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi on August 10.In his letter, co-signed by other MPs on board…
NEW DELHI: Counting for the Raxaul assembly seat in Bihar will begin at 8 am, as voters await the results of a key contest in Purvi Champaran district. The constituency, an unreserved category seat, has traditionally been a stronghold of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with the party maintaining a winning streak in recent decades….
NDA functionaries, including ministers, would soon hit the ground to explain and create more awareness about benefits of the new rural employment guarantee scheme VB G-RAM-G, which has replaced the UPA-era MNREGA, to negate the opposition’s narrative. This was discussed at Friday’s Cabinet meeting, which PM Modi chaired soon after his foreign trip, sources said.TOI…
