Lucknow: Referring to the BJP govt push for use of Swadeshi products, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said the govt should take a cue from the US and shut Indian markets for China or impose 100% tariff on their products to encourage Indian manufacturers.“BJP is only indulging in lip service by making calls…
Rishab Shetty’s Kantara Chapter 1 continues its impressive box office run, nearing Rs 500 crore in India after a strong first week. The film maintained steady weekday collections in its second week, demonstrating sustained audience interest. Shetty emphasizes the story’s focus on folklore and nature worship, devoid of any political agenda. Rishab Shetty’s Kantara Chapter…
NEW DELHI: A teenage fan managed to breach security at Gaddafi Stadium during the first Test between Pakistan and South Africa on Wednesday (October 15), coinciding with Babar Azam’s 31st birthday, in a desperate attempt to meet the star batsman.Footage from the stadium showed the young fan climbing through the Majid Khan Enclosure and making…
China has filed a complaint against India at WTO over New Delhi’s subsidies for electric vehicles and batteries. The Chinese commerce ministry has alleged that the measures by India violate several WTO obligations, including the principle of national treatment, and constitute import substitution subsidies.These measures unfairly benefit India’s domestic industries and undermine China’s legitimate interests,…
MUMBAI: Two academics on the RBI’s monetary policy committee — Nagesh Kumar and Ram Singh — called for shifting the policy stance to accommodative, citing subdued inflation and the need to support growth but governor Sanjay Malhotra said such a move would amount to giving “definitive forward guidance” on the next step, which he felt…
Actor Pankaj Dheer, whose impressive turn as the wronged prince Karna in the television epic, ‘Mahabharat’ (1988), embedded him in a generation’s memory, passed away in Mumbai on Wednesday. He was 68. Dheer was suffering from cancer. “He had been in and out of hospital in the past months,” producer and friend Ashoke Pandit told…
Lucknow: Snubbed by the BJP, the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP), a constituent of the NDA in UP, released its first list of 47 candidates for the Bihar elections on Wednesday. The party is expected to announce candidates for 25 more seats in the coming days, sources said.SBSP had on Tuesday announced to go solo…
New Delhi: Months ahead of the March 31, 2026 deadline to fully eliminate armed Naxalism from the country, the Centre declared that the total number of Left-wing extremism-hit districts have fallen to just 11 from 18 in March 2025 and 126 in 2013, with the “most-affected districts” also down to three from six in the…
The sudden demise of veteran actor Pankaj Dheer has left the entire film industry and millions of his admirers in deep shock. The actor, who was reportedly battling cancer, passed away in Mumbai on October 15, 2025. As the industry remembers his stellar contribution to cinema — from Mahabharat’s Karna to countless memorable film roles,…
Gaya: It was a usual sombre scene at Gaya’s Mukti dham crematorium on Monday.A funeral procession reached Mukti dham with a music band amid the chants of “Ram naam satya hai”. Relatives and friends of 74-year-old Mohan Lal, who had retired from Indian Air Force (IAF), reached Mukti dham carrying his bamboo ‘arthi’, decorated with…