Sydney: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced that India will open a consulate in Brisbane to fulfill the long-pending demand by the diaspora. Modi made the announcement while addressing a packed stadium at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena. The event was also attended by his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese. “An absolute delight connecting with Indian diaspora…
Srinagar: China not attending the G20 meeting in Srinagar does not make any difference and it is their loss, not India’s, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday. Delegates of all G20 countries, barring China, arrived in Srinagar on Monday to attend the third G20 tourism working group meeting. “That (China not attending the meeting)…
New Delhi: Researchers have showed that coastal ecosystems globally are a net greenhouse gas sink for carbon dioxide (CO2), but emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) counteract some of the CO2 consumption by these sinks. From tropical lagoons to polar fjords, from coastal mangrove forests to underwater seagrass communities, many coastlines around the…
Ahmedabad: A court here in Gujarat on Tuesday issued a fresh summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh to appear before it on June 7 in a criminal defamation case lodged by the Gujarat University over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s academic degree. The court of Additional…
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday said the AAP will seek the support of political parties against the Centre’s Ordinance on control of services in Delhi in a bid to stall it in the Rajya Sabha. The AAP is locked in a bitter tussle with the BJP-led Centre since the Union government promulgated an…
New Delhi: The heatwave conditions are likely to persist in the national capital on Tuesday with the maximum temperature expected to settle around 43 degrees Celsius, even as the weather office has forecast light rain or drizzle later in the day. Delhi is reeling under scorching heat for the past several days with the mercury…
New Delhi: The BR Ambedkar University’s ambitious plan to introduce new courses and increase student intake five-fold has hit a roadblock as the construction at two of its upcoming campuses is yet to begin with the projects awaiting approval from the Delhi Cabinet, officials said. Established in 2008, the university has around 3,000 students across…
Chandigarh: Pharma major Venus Remedies on Tuesday said it has secured a good manufacturing practices (GMP) certification from Kenya for all its production facilities at Baddi, in Himachal Pradesh. The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) of the Kenyan Health Ministry granted the certification following a rigorous audit of the company’s production facilities in Baddi, a company…
Washington: Describing “Atmanirbhar Bharat” as a brilliant initiative which was long overdue, a top Indian-American CEO has said that the US is a natural partner in India’s initiative to make the country self-reliant in various fields, particularly in defence. The remarks by Vivek Lall, Chief Executive of General Atomics Global Corporation, came ahead of Prime Minister…
New Delhi: Small queues were witnessed at some bank branches on Tuesday for the exchange of Rs 2,000 notes against smaller denominations as part of the withdrawal exercise. As per the RBI guidelines issued on Friday, the exchange of Rs 2,000 facility is available from Tuesday. A person can exchange up to a limit of Rs…
