In what officials are calling Haryana’s most ambitious environmental push yet, the state has collaborated with World Bank and created the ‘Haryana Clean Air Project for Sustainable Development’ with a corpus of Rs 3,600 crore to ‘significantly improve’ air quality over the next five years.The proposal includes sweeping interventions, ranging from farm-level enforcement to industrial…
NEW DELHI: Four people have been charged with murder in the Zubeen Garg death case, Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe revealed on Friday. The singer’s cousin and suspended Assam Police officer Sandipan Garg, has been booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the chargesheet.Shyamkanu Mahanta, Siddhartha Sharma, Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta…
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing concerns over the exponential rise in airfares due to the IndiGo crisis, aviation minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu on Friday said that the prices of flight tickets are on par with the rest of the world and that the government has taken steps to bring down prices during extraordinary times.While…
Representative image (AI) In a significant acknowledgement of India’s growing economic importance to the United States, three members of the US House of Representatives have moved to roll back steep tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on Indian imports, arguing that the measures hurt American jobs, consumers, and the broader US-India partnership.The resolution, introduced by…
Lionel Messi GOAT Tour of India Live Updates: Thousands braved the December chill and stayed up well past midnight to give Argentine football icon Lionel Messi a thunderous welcome as he arrived in Kolkata for his whirlwind three-day, four-city GOAT India Tour 2025. The Barcelona legend touched down at 2.26 am on Saturday, triggering scenes…
Automakers saw a strong rise in factory dispatches to dealerships in November, indicating that consumer demand remained strong even after the festive season ended. Companies noted that cars, two-wheelers and three-wheelers recording strong double-digit growth as compared to the same period, a year earlier. Industry body SIAM said that the month turned out to be…
MUMBAI: RBI deputy governor T Rabi Sankar on Friday said that stablecoins are inherently unstable and pose major macro-financial risks, including currency substitution, dollarisation and weakened monetary-policy transmission.Sankar’s comments come at a time when US govt’s stance is broadly supportive of dollar-denominated payment stablecoins as part of the formal financial system, distinct from lightly supervised…
Bahraich murder in 2024 ‘tore fabric of humanity’ LUCKNOW: A Bahraich court, which awarded death penalty to main accused Sarfaraz alias Rinku and sentenced nine others to life imprisonment for the murder of a 22-year-old man during the communal violence that erupted over Durga Puja idol, invoked Manusmriti to stress the necessity of a strong…
Big education reforms rarely arrive all at once. They move through Cabinet notes, draft clauses and administrative reshuffles before their effects are felt in classrooms and campuses. The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhikshan Bill, cleared by the Union Cabinet on Friday, is one such moment. It gives legislative form to a core promise of the National…
US President Donald Trump has often pointed to rising government revenues and sweeping investment pledges as proof that his economic strategy is working. However, many Americans, struggling with rising bills, have failed to see this growth materialising.Critics have also argued that the president is talking past households dealing with day-to-day affordability pressures. The disconnect is…
