New Delhi: US-based retail giant Walmart is looking to source toys, shoes and bicycles from Indian suppliers as the company is targeting to increase its exports from India to USD 10 billion annually by 2027. The company also wants to develop new suppliers in categories such as food, pharmaceuticals, consumables, health and wellness, and apparel and…
Lucknow: BSP president Mayawati on Saturday accused the Congress of neglecting Dalits and Muslims while picking the new Karnataka chief minister and the deputy chief minister because of the “casteist mindset”. “After the Karnataka assembly elections, the Congress tried to suppress its internal strife by making D K Shivakumar the deputy chief minister. But why neglect…
Hiroshima: The Gandhian ideals of peace and harmony reverberate globally and give strength to millions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday as he unveiled a bust of Mahatma Gandhi here in this Japanese city. The location of the bust of Gandhi has been chosen as a mark of solidarity for peace and non-violence. The US…
Nashik: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday said people of Nashik must take a decision on the Trimbakeshwar Temple issue that began after some people of a different religion tried to “forcibly” enter on May 13 to offer incense as part of a tradition associated with a nearby dargah. A First Information Report was…
Kolkata: The toll in a blast at an illegal firecracker factory in West Bengals Purba Medinipur district rose to 11 as one more person, who was seriously injured in the explosion, succumbed to his injuries, a senior official said on Saturday. Rabindranath Maity, who had 80 per cent burn injuries and was undergoing treatment at the…
Patna: The BJP on Saturday asserted that the Centre’s ordinance with regard to transfers and postings of officers in Delhi was brought to ensure “transparency and accountability”. Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad speaking at a press conference here said, the Supreme Court had cited absence of any particular law with regard to the administration in…
New Delhi: Cashless treatment will now be available to all CGHS beneficiaries at the premier All India Institutes of Medical Sciences in Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Jodhpur, Raipur and Rishikesh, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. The authorities have signed a memorandum of agreement with these six AIIMS to provide cashless treatment under the Central Government…
Hiroshima: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday held a productive bilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and discussed a broad range of issues including cooperation in trade and economic spheres, co-production and manufacturing in the defence sector and civil nuclear cooperation. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the summit of the Group of…
Hiroshima: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met his British counterpart Rishi Sunak, Indonesian President Joko Widodo and UN chief Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the G7 summit here in this Japanese city. Modi arrived in Hiroshima on Friday to attend three sessions at the G7 summit. During his meeting with Sunak, the two leaders…
Hiroshima: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called for building an inclusive food system that focuses on the world’s most vulnerable people and pitched for checking the “expansionist mentality” occupying the fertiliser resources. In an address at a session of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Modi also strongly batted for the democratisation of technology, saying it…
