NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged citizens to participate in the 7th edition of the PM’s Mementoes E-Auction, which features gifts he has received over the years during official programmes. The proceeds from the auction will be directed to the Namami Gange Project, aimed at cleaning and conserving the Ganga River.“Over the…
NEW DELHI: Finland’s President Alexander Stubb recently distinguished India from Russia and China, calling New Delhi an “emerging superpower” and urging Western countries to engage more closely with it.In a Bloomberg Podcasts interview, Stubb was asked about his view on the growing alignment between India, Russia and China. He pushed back firmly saying, “India is…
NEW DELHI: As Congress top brass met in Patna on Wednesday for the party’s first post-Independence Working Committee meeting in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party targeted the opposition INDIA bloc, claiming disputes over seat-sharing.The Congress held Working Committee meeting focusing on the assembly election strategy and increasing pressure on the BJP over alleged “vote chori”…
Reports recently suggested that Saiyaara actress Aneet Padda is set to replace Kiara Advani as the lead in the horror comedy Shakti Shalini. However, director Aditya Sarpotdar has dismissed the buzz, calling it “too early” to confirm anything.“I am sure there are discussions happening with actors. But until I am aware of who is locked…
Police in Tamil Nadu have registered a case against three minors after a video showing an Industrial Training Institute (ITI) MADURAI: The Madurai rural district police on Tuesday booked three minors for their alleged involvement in ragging of a 15-year-old govt Industrial Training Institute (ITI) student inside a govt Kallar college hostel room at Checkanurani…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Wednesday addressed the High-Level Meeting of Like Minded Global South Countries in New York, where he called for stronger cooperation among developing nations and reforms in multilateral institutions.“We meet in increasingly uncertain times when the state of the world is a cause for mounting concern for…
Tensions erupted near Ainapur village in Karnataka as VHP and Bajrang Dal activists allegedly torched a truck transporting suspected illegal cow meat BELAGAVI: Tensions flared near Ainapur village in Karanataka’s Kagwad taluk, where activists from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal allegedly set fire to a truck transporting illegal cow meat. According to…
NEW DELHI: India and Sri Lanka plan to further enhance their defence cooperation and military interoperability across their armed forces, with Navy chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi having wide-ranging discussions with Sri Lankan PM Harini Amarasuriya in Colombo on Tuesday.Officials said Admiral Tripathi and PM Amarasuriya also focused on the enduring bilateral partnership in the…
AHMEDABAD: For Suresh Dantani, the lanes of Meghaninagar no longer hold the same meaning. They are reminders of the day his 13-year-old son Akash was taken away in the June 12 Air India crash near the IGP office campus.“We will never return to that place. We will never start the tea stall where he died….
Volodymyr Zelenskyy (left), PM Narendra Modi (PTI) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed hope that stronger diplomatic engagement between India and the West could prompt New Delhi to reconsider its energy imports from Russia. In an interview with Fox News, Zelenskyy underscored the need to keep India aligned with the Western bloc amid the ongoing…
