Former Assam Congress president Bhupen Borah will join BJP on Feb 22: Himanta
Guwahati: In a major jolt to the opposition Congress in Assam ahead of the assembly polls, its former state president Bhupen Borah will join the BJP on February 22, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday after meeting him. Sarma visited Borah’s residence in the Ghoramara area of Guwahati, a day after the senior…
PM Modi lauds Serbian president for terming AI Impact Summit ‘more than a conference’
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday appreciated Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, who has described the ongoing AI Impact Summit here as more than a conference. Modi pointed out that Vučić, in a newspaper article, has elaborated how the summit places India firmly at the centre of the global discourse on artificial intelligence (AI)….
PM Modi, Macron inaugurate India-France year of innovation 2026
Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday inaugurated the ‘India-France Year of Innovation’. Hours after announcing to elevate the decades-old ties to a “special strategic partnership”, the two leaders attended the event where New Delhi and Paris affirmed their commitment to innovation. “The India-France year of innovation 2026 will further…
Tata-Airbus helicopter facility shining example of partnership in high-end manufacturing: Rajnath
Kolar (Karnataka): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the investment into H-125 helicopter programme is “anticipated” to cross Rs 1000 crore, and create some jobs, and called it a “shining example” of mutually beneficial partnership with friendly countries in the high-end manufacturing sector. He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the final assembly…
PM Modi invites new Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman to visit India
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to visit India and conveyed his best wishes to the newly sworn-in Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader. The invitation was extended to Rahman through a letter handed over by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, who called on Rahman in Dhaka after the latter…
Omar thanks Home Minister Shah for reopening 14 tourist destinations in J-K
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday thanked Union Home Minister Amit Shah for reopening 14 tourist destinations in the Union Territory, which were closed in April last year following the Pahalgam terror attack. “Recently, the Union Home Minister had come to Jammu, and I had talks with him. Before that, I…
Political leaders must foster fraternity in country, says SC, asks petitioners to file fresh plea
New Delhi: Political leaders must foster fraternity in the country, the Supreme Court observed on Tuesday while asking 12 petitioners, including academician Roop Rekha Verma, to file a fresh plea seeking the guidelines on political speeches. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices B V Nagarathna and Joymalya Bagchi, however, declined to entertain…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party MPs elect Tarique Rahman as leader of parliamentary party
Dhaka: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairman Tarique Rahman is all set to be the Prime Minister of the country after his party’s Members of Parliament elected him as leader of the parliamentary party, making it official. The development came even as all the newly elected members of parliament from across the parties took the oath…
Sonia Gandhi asked me to decide date of my swearing-in as Assam Cong CM in 2014: Himanta
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday claimed that then Congress President Sonia Gandhi had asked him to decide on the date for his swearing in as CM when 58 party MLAs had supported him in 2014. The scenario, however, changed after Rahul Gandhi, who was then in the USA, made phone calls…
Sovereign AI models available at summit, huge response to event: Vaishnaw
New Delhi: Sovereign AI models have been made available at the AI Impact Summit and the government is planning huge infrastructure to make them available widely for everyone, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday. Speaking to PTI, the minister said sovereign models have withstood all parameters at par with global big AI models. “Sovereign…
