NEW DELHI: The agriculture ministry will on Friday deliberate on how benefits under GST reforms related to the farm sector are widely and effectively passed on to farmers. Relevant strategies will also be formulated for smooth implementation of these reforms.Chaired by agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the ministry’s officials will hold discussions with industry players…
MANGALURU: At least seven skulls, mostly of middle-aged men, were recovered by the SIT probing the alleged Dharmasthala mass burial case in Banglegudda in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district.SIT sources said five skulls were recovered Wednesday and two on Thursday. They said the skulls were likely a year old, adding forensic tests might throw more light….
RANCHI: Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan on Thursday said Operation Sindoor heralded a “new kind of warfare” driven by technology, in which India decisively beat Pakistan in every escalation, reports Sanjay Sahay.Interacting with schoolchildren in Jharkhand on the theme ‘Operation Sindoor: Bacchon Se Samvad (dialogue with children)’ in Ranchi, Gen Chauhan said…
NEW DELHI: “What a joke!” remarked BJP as it rubbished the latest tranche of Rahul Gandhi‘s vote theft allegations and accused him of peddling baseless charges out of frustration in an attempt to create “Bangladesh and Nepal-like situations in India” by undermining democratic institutions.At a presser, former Union minister and LS MP Anurag Thakur said…
BHOPAL: What began as a frantic river rescue in MP’s Rajgarh district a fortnight ago, has unraveled into an elaborate fraud – Vishal Soni, son of Rajgarh BJP leader Mahesh Soni, fabricated his own death to evade Rs 1.40 crore in loans, sending police, administration, and SDERF teams on a 10-day, 20-km search of the…
MUMBAI: The CBI Thursday filed a chargesheet against Anil Ambani, chairman of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, along with Rana Kapoor, co-founder of Yes Bank, and the latter’s wife, Bindu, and daughters, Radha Kapoor & Roshni, for fraudulent loan transactions that resulted in a loss of Rs 2,797 crore to the bank.The chargesheet says the bank…
KOLKATA: The United States is likely to withdraw the 25% penal tariff on India and there are expectations that the issue could be resolved by end Nov, chief economic adviser V Anantha Nageswaran said on Thursday. Speaking to members of the Bharat Chamber of Commerce here, Nageswaran said: “In the next 8-10 weeks, we could…
BENGALURU: Indian universities and research organisations can now become part of a new international consortium launched by Axiom Space to drive microgravity science and innovation in low-Earth orbit.Axiom, whose Ax-4 mission took India’s Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station (ISS) and back, already has a partnership with Indian space startup Skyroot Aerospace to jointly…
LONDON: US President Donald Trump repeated his claim at a press conference at Chequers, the UK PM’s official country retreat, that his intervention had stopped the brief India-Pakistan conflict earlier this year, a claim refuted umpteen times by India.Trump, speaking on the final day of his state visit to Britain, said he personally had stopped…
The Indian government reacted cautiously to the strategic mutual defence pact that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have signed, saying it’s studying the implications of the development and remains committed to protecting India’s national interests and ensuring comprehensive national security in all domains. The agreement, which states that any aggression against either country shall be considered…
