NEW DELHI: In a positive development days ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Manipur, the Centre, Manipur govt and Kuki-Zo insurgent groups are likely to reach an agreement on Thursday on extending the suspension of operations (SOO) among them. The SOO pact was signed in 2008 and renewed from time to time. However, it…
Relentless rain across Himachal Pradesh, J&K, Punjab, and Haryana has killed at least 500 people this monsoon, with fresh landslides, flash floods, and collapsing houses claiming dozens more lives Tuesday night and Wednesday. Highways are blocked, rivers above danger mark, crops flattened, and thousands stranded as rain continued to pound the region.In Himachal, the toll…
Suresh Rawat (15) still wakes at 6 am – he has never needed an alarm. Not because school is in session or a bell might echo through the hills, but because his routine – wake, wash, dress – is a habit rooted in pre-monsoon normalcy. Comb hair, button shirt, pack school bag. But he has…
NEW DELHI: As Congress revamps its organisation at the district level under the ‘Sangathan Srijan Abhiyan’, the profile of newly appointed District Congress Committee (DCC) presidents of three states — Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana — shows that 50% of the new presidents are below 50 years, making a marked shift towards giving younger party…
NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday approved a Rs 1,500 crore incentive scheme for developing capacity for recycling critical minerals from electronic waste and other scrap such as used lithium-ion batteries and end-of-life vehicles etc. scrap with the aim of creating domestic supply chain resilience.The scheme is expected to ensure supply of vital elements, which…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah, while felicitating the CRPF and Chhattisgarh police personnel here on Wednesday on success of the May 2025 ‘Operation Black Forest’ against Maoists in Karreguttalu Hills on Chhattisgarh-Telangana border, said that the Narendra Modi government shall not rest until all Naxalites surrender, or are captured or eliminated.“Under the leadership of…
Centre to build dozens of Ring Roads across cities to decongest urban highways NEW DELHI: It’s not just metros like Delhi and Bengaluru where vehicle speeds drop sharply as highways enter city limits. Govt data shared with states on Wednesday show that even in smaller cities such as Madurai in Tamil Nadu, the average speed…
NEW DELHI: The government has tightened norms on use of scribes in competitive examinations for persons with disabilities (PwDs), making it compulsory for bodies conducting tests linked to employment and admission to professional courses — like IIT-JEE, NEET, CAT and civil services — to create their own scribe pools within two years and phase out…
As India looks to circumvent its trade problem with the US, external affairs minister S Jaishankar told his visiting German counterpart Johann Wadephul India’s counting on Germany to expedite the negotiations for India-EU FTA, underling that a “decisive conclusion”of the agreement in the coming days will help stabilise the global economy.The leaders discussed the Ukraine…
NEW DELHI: A day after PM Narendra Modi said Bihar will not pardon the opposition for “abusing my mother”, Congress asked him to focus on issues raised by the Vote Adhikar Yatra, instead of “crying” about extraneous matters.AICC spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said the person who hurled the expletives is in police custody and should be…
