NEW DELHI: Amid concerns over the US move to impose a 50% tariff on Indian goods significantly impacting the export of India’s fisheries, the government on Monday asked seafood exporters to explore alternative markets for shrimps and other fish varieties. “We have asked them (exporters) to face the current challenge bravely. There are alternative markets…
Raipur, Aug 11 (IANS) A technical snag in an Air India flight arriving from Delhi led to a tense hour-long delay at Raipur airport, leaving around 160 passengers, including a sitting MLA, stranded inside the aircraft with no immediate explanation. RAIPUR: A technical snag in an Air India flight arriving from Delhi led to a…
NEW DELHI: In a record crackdown on textbook piracy, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has seized around 4.71 lakh pirated copies of its textbooks in operations across multiple states in 2024 and 2025, the govt told Lok Sabha on Monday. The raids, targeting manufacturers and sellers of counterfeit books and even…
Five Al Jazeera journalists, including well-known correspondent Anas al-Sharif, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a journalists’ tent in Gaza City on Sunday. The Israeli military confirmed it carried out the strike, accusing al-Sharif of being a Hamas operative who “posed as a journalist” and led a terrorist cell responsible for rocket attacks.Al Jazeera…
NEW DELHI: When women officers can fly Rafales and can be a part of UN peacekeeping missions in combat zones like Syria, Lebanon and Israel, then why can’t they be deployed in counter-insurgency and counter-terror forces or get attached to infantry/artillery units in times of emergency, the Supreme Court asked on Monday while ruling that…
NEW DELHI: In its investigations against Robert Vadra, the Enforcement Directorate faces a “Wall of the Dead” with Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi‘s spouse putting the burden of explaining the issues thrown up by the money laundering probe on his colleagues, who assisted him acquire properties in Delhi-NCR, but have since passed away. These properties are…
BAREILY: A 14-year-old girl from Bareilly was allegedly gang raped by two teenagers at knifepoint, while a neighbour filmed the assault instead of trying to save the girl and later shared the video on social media, report Kanwardeep Singh & Asif Ansari. After the clip began circulating, the survivor’s father lodged a police complaint.However, instead…
NEW DELHI: The government is set to tighten oversight on the controversial “Not Found Suitable” (NFS) provision in faculty recruitment, with a University Grants Commission (UGC) panel likely to recommend that all such cases be reported for review and corrective advice. The plan is to make it mandatory for universities to justify every NFS decision…
Mumbai: Edme Insurance Brokers (formerly Aditya Birla Insurance Brokers) has acquired UK-based UIB’s India operations, which it will merge with itself. UIB UK is among the world’s top five reinsurance brokers and specialises in the energy and aviation space.Edme writes business worth Rs 200 crore annually through both reinsurance and direct insurance placements. “With this…
Representative image (PTI photo) The last police station located before the India-China border in the Gangotri range also suffered damage in the August 5 mudslide that struck the Army camp in Harsil, report Ashish Mishra & Kalyan Das. Around 20 police personnel present escaped death by a whisker, as they managed to run to safety…
