KULLU/DEHRADUN: This monsoon, from Kullu to Kalimpong, Kishtwar to Karnaprayag, landslides, flash floods and ground subsidence sharpened the focus on how India’s expanding network of highways, tunnels, ropeways and hydropower dams is affecting the fragile Himalayan terrain. While officials insist these were natural calamities, a growing number of residents, scientists and campaigners point to unscientific…

NEW DELHI: Under pressure from the US to impose tariffs on India for its oil purchase from Russia, the European Union (EU) Wednesday rolled out a new strategic agenda for boosting bilateral cooperation with India, including through the creation of an EU-India Security and Defence Partnership that would also facilitate defence industrial collaboration, along with…

NEW DELHI: Congress Working Committee will hold a meeting in Patna on Sept 24, in the party’s continued bid to place itself in Bihar’s focus ah-ead of the assembly elections after the recent ‘Vote Adhikar Yatra’ held by Rahul Gandhi along with alliance netas.Sources said the “extended CWC” chaired by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge would…

NEW DELHI: Hearing a PIL that cited an SIT report on rampant tiger poaching in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra to seek a nation-wide CBI probe into the involvement of a wide network of poachers, smugglers and hawala operators, Supreme Court on Wednesday sought responses from the Centre, MP and Maharashtra, as well as National Tiger…

NEW DELHI: India is throwing open the doors of its universities and national research labs, offering innovations and products to global investors and collaborators as it looks to turn ideas into international partnerships. In a world where alliances are shifting, Delhi is seeking multiple players for its innovation story. Its new initiative, Bharat Innovates 2026,…