HYDERABAD: Telangana’s Congress govt has decided to approach Supreme Court against an HC stay on a hike in Backward Classes (BC) quota from 25% to 42% for local body polls on Oct 23, reports Roushan Ali.Chief minister A Revanth Reddy took the decision at a meeting held late Friday with Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Congress Rajya…
NEW DELHI: With the campaign for Bihar elections gathering pace, PM Modi on Saturday launched two mega central schemes with a total outlay of Rs 35,440 crore to transform 100 low-performing agri-districts and increase production of pulses to reduce imports, urging farmers to focus on both selfreliance and exports.Addressing a gathering of farmers and farm…
NEW DELHI: After an over fiveyear lull, India and China will ramp up their direct air connectivity. IndiGo Saturday announced a daily direct flight between Delhi and Guangzhou from Nov 10, shortly after the airline links Kolkata and Guangzhou from October 26. Air India is also set to fly to China before the end of…
BHOPAL: After the death of 23 children in Madhya Pradesh, including 20 from Chhindwara, following the consumption of Coldrif, a cough syrup laced with the killer chemical diethylene glycol (DEG), Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) Friday made it mandatory to test for both DEG and ethylene glycol (EG) in all raw materials and finished…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met Cristiano R Amon, President and CEO of Qualcomm, and discussed India’s advancements in artificial intelligence, innovation, and skilling.The Prime Minister expressed appreciation for Qualcomm’s commitment towards India’s Semiconductor and AI Missions. He noted that India offers unmatched talent and scale to build technologies that will shape…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday met Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, a company dealing in safe AI systems. The company also plans to open an office in Bengaluru next year. “Glad to meet you. India’s vibrant tech ecosystem and talented youth are driving AI innovation that is human-centric and responsible,” PM Modi…
Kerala Police registered Saturday a case in connection with alleged theft of Sabarimala temple’s gold, naming 10 people as accused. The 10 include an individual described as “sponsor” Unnikrishnan Potti, with whom a Chennai firm had allegedly deposited some gold after plating work in 2019 but which was never returned to Sabarimala authorities. Source link
NEW DELHI: Investigating the uncommanded deployment of the ram air turbine (RAT) – a procedure triggered during engine failures – on an Air India Boeing 787 flight on October 4, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has directed the airline to reinspect RATs on all aircraft where the power conditioning module (PCM) was recently replaced.The…
Last year in May, when Ramjit Yadav, a man accused of killing his wife, walked out of UP‘s Azamgarh jail on bail, he took with him the jail’s chequebook. Within months, he stole Rs 30 lakh, from the prison’s bank account operated by jail superintendent Aditya Kumar Singh, reports Rajeev Dikshit. The con came to…
No role in Taliban presser that kept women out NEW DELHI: Amid a growing controversy over absence of women journalists from a press meet of visiting Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Friday, Taliban head of political office Suhail Shaheen on Saturday denied allegations that women scribes were deliberately kept out. “It was done…
