New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hailed the Union Cabinet’s decision to approve the GOBARdhan Scheme, which will give a major boost to compressed biogas, and sanction a four-lane access-controlled highway between Guwahati and Tezpur in Assam. He said the projects will strengthen seamless connectivity, create a strong and predictable ecosystem for investment…
Mumbai: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday said reservation in jobs and education for disadvantaged groups was introduced to address social discrimination and will remain in place as long as inequity existed, but beneficiaries who had progressed should mull foregoing further benefits so others could avail of the opportunities. He insisted reservation is for upliftment…
New Delhi: India and Singapore on Thursday reviewed the progress of bilateral cooperation across the eight key areas outlined by the Roadmap for the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) between the two countries. The 19th round of India-Singapore Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) was held in New Delhi, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. The Indian…
Mumbai: Mumbai Police have busted an international cyber fraud racket with links to Dubai and arrested 12 persons from a villa in Goa for allegedly duping people across the country through fake online gaming platforms, an official said on Thursday. The accused allegedly operated fraudulent online gaming and betting websites, including ‘Rudra’ and ‘100 Panel’,…
New Delhi: The government is questioning the visiting Meta team on whether the company is following the law of the land, following summons to the social media giant over the temporary restriction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Facebook post recently, sources said on Thursday. The government and the Meta global team are currently engaged in…
Panaji: Former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal on Thursday said he would move the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court’s judgment convicting him in a 2013 sexual assault case, asserting that the order was “wrong”. In a major setback to Tejpal, the Bombay High Court’s Goa bench convicted him for raping a colleague in 2013,…
New Delhi: BJP leaders, including Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and state president Harsh Malhotra, paid tributes to former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on her death anniversary on Thursday, recalling her contributions to the city and the country. The party leaders also planted saplings at the Delhi BJP office and Vasant Udyan in the…
Ranchi: The protest against alleged examination irregularities in Jharkhand intensified on Thursday with opposition MLAs protesting on Assembly premises on the first day of its Monsoon Session, as the stir gained steam over the past 13 days with six demonstrators on hunger strike. The protest, which began on July 25 under the banner of the…
Guwahati: Fourteen districts and 1.6 lakh people were affected by floods in Assam while the death toll rose to 95 with six more deaths, officials said on Thursday. Six fatalities were reported on Wednesday — two each from Sivasagar and Biswanath districts, and one each from Golaghat and Morigaon. The worst-hit Sivasagar alone has accounted…
New Delhi: Africa is India’s partner and its “priority”, and whether one speaks of a multipolar world order or of a reformed multilateralism, it will happen only when the continent is “given its due place”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday. In his address at an event marking Africa Day 2026, Jaishankar said…
