NEW DELHI: The reopening of the Kailash Yatra route through Tibet has allowed Indian pilgrims to undertake the spiritual journey to Mount Kailash after a five-year hiatus, reflecting improving India-China relations. This year, Sadhguru, founder of the Isha Foundation, undertook the Yatra in a historic first — on a motorbike — demonstrating resilience after undergoing…
NEW DELHI: Awami Ittehad Party of Lok Sabha MP Engineer Rashid Tuesday held a demonstration at Jantar Mantar to mark six years of his incarceration, saying his continued imprisonment is an “assault on democracy”.Workers of the AIP and civil society activists gathered at the protest venue and expressed “solidarity with Engineer Rashid and other innocent…
NEW DELHI: The US on Tuesday issued a notice to India over the implementation of additional tariffs set to take effect from August 27.Issued by the department of homeland security, the notice said that the tariffs were imposed in response to “threats to the United States by the government of Russian Federation,” with India being…
TOI correspondent from Washington: The United States on Monday declared what is effectively a limited trade war on India, notifying a 50 percent tariff (25 percent taxes and 25 percent penalty) on most goods import from India. Issued by the Department of Homeland Security, the notification said the tariffs are in response to “threats to…
TOI correspondent from Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi refused to take four calls from US President Donald Trump in recent weeks amid a raging trade dispute, a German newspaper has reported, as ties between Washington and New Delhi have soured rapidly, testing what both sides repeatedly said was the most consequential relationship of the 21st…
NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said that people across undivided India have shared the same DNA for more than 40,000 years, further adding that “living in harmony is our culture.”Speaking at the event “100 Years Journey of RSS: New Horizons” at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, Bhagwat said that, “DNA…
AI-generated image for representation NEW DELHI: A man in Chhattisgarh allegedly took his own life on Monday after his wife refused to cook egg curry, police said on Tuesday.Upset over her refusal, the man left the house and was later found hanging from a tree near his home, police said.The incident occurred in Sankara village…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday commissioned two advanced multi-mission stealth frigates, INS Udaygiri and INS Himgiri, at the Eastern Command of the Indian Navy in Visakhapatnam, marking a major boost to the country’s maritime strength.Indirectly, referring to the United States, Rajnath said, “One country has the F-35 (fifth-generation fighter jet) flying in…
PATNA: The Bihar government on Tuesday announced a new policy under which free land and interest subvention of up to Rs 40 crore would be provided to those investing in the industrial sector.Chief minister Nitish Kumar asserted that the ‘Bihar Industrial Investment Promotion Package 2025 (BIPPP-2025)’ will boost industrial growth in the agrarian state and…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah‘s “morality pitch” to back the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025 met a strong counter from Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal who accused the Modi government of “weaponising” laws to target the opposition.“I don’t think in the history of India, there has been a government which is more constitutionally…
