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,…
NEW DELHI: With PM Modi turning 75 on Wednesday, a host of prominent members of the govt and party showered praises on the leader who has not just transformed governance in the country since he took office in 2014, but whose life journey – from his modest origins to his initial years as an RSS…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Wednesday extended till September 27 the judicial custody of the woman who drove the BMW car involved in a crash that left a senior finance ministry official dead and his wife injured in Dhaula Kuan.Judicial magistrate Ankit Garg extended her judicial custody. The court also issued notice on a…
Gorakhpur: A day after suspected cow smugglers killed a 19-year-old medical aspirant, Deepak Gupta, in Gorakhpur, UP Police Wednesday arrested one of the accused following an encounter while he was attempting to flee towards Nepal. The accused, Rahim, sustained bullet injuries in both legs. Police seized his bike and a country-made pistol used in the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Jharkhand govt is in gross contempt of court by not notifying Saranda forest as a sanctuary and summoned its chief secretary to face contempt proceedings on Oct 8 with a warning that if the notification is not issued by then, the top bureaucrat would go to…
NEW DELHI: Terming it a “publicity interest litigation”, Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed a plea seeking directions to reconstruct and reinstall a seven-foot idol of Lord Vishnu at the Javari Temple, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Khajuraho temple complex in Madhya Pradesh.A bench headed by Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran…
NEW DELHI: In what could be a positive outcome of India’s growing renewable energy footprint, a new analysis based on official monthly data has shown the country’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its power sector fell by 1% year-on-year in first half of 2025 and by 0.2% over past 12 months – this is only…
