Islamabad: The IMF’s executive board is set to meet on July 12 to review the USD 3 billion Standby Arrangement with cash-strapped Pakistan and will also possibly release the first tranche of USD 1.1 billion as part of the loan programme, a media report said on Wednesday. The Pakistan government and the International Monetary Fund…
Mumbai: Surrounded by party workers, including 32 of NCP’s 53 MLAs, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday reminded his 83-year-old uncle Sharad Pawar that it was time for him to retire. “In BJP, leaders retire at 75, when are you going to stop,” Ajit Pawar said, speaking at the meeting convened by him in…
New Delhi: A day after his appointment as the Telangana BJP president, Union minister G Kishan Reddy skipped the meeting of the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. Though no official reason was cited for his absence, some leaders believe it could be an indication of his likely exit from the Union Cabinet…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh on July 7 and Telangana and Rajasthan the next day and will inaugurate or lay foundation stones of projects worth around Rs 50,000 crore, his office said on Wednesday. All these states except Uttar Pradesh are slated to go to polls later this year….
New Delhi: The factional fight of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has reached the doorstep of the Election Commission with the group led by Ajit Pawar filing over 40 affidavits of MLAs and MPs in his support. The Sharad Pawar camp has filed a caveat with the poll authority urging it to hear them first before…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended interim protection from arrest to activist Teesta Setalvad in a case linked to the 2002 post-Godhra riots. The next hearing will be on July 19. A bench of Justices B R Gavai, A S Bopanna and Dipankar Datta issued notice to the Gujarat government on the appeal filed…
The unexpected political churning in Maharashtra sent tremors among the non-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states. And, the BJP too has proved beyond doubt that it is more a party with a difference. Call it ‘Operation Lotus’ or by any other name, the BJP looks more ruthless than the Congress, which ruled the country for six…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday pitched for sharing India’s AI-based language platform, Bhashini, with SCO member countries to remove language barriers within the international grouping. He said this during his address at a virtual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). “We would be happy to share India’s AI-based language platform, Bhashini, with…
New Delhi: Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Tuesday discussed various issues related to the digital competition law. A panel chaired by Corporate Affairs Secretary Manoj Govil will be preparing a report on digital competition law, where it will examine various regulatory aspects in dealing with challenges emerging from the digital economy. On Tuesday,…
Mumbai: The NCP led by Sharad Pawar and the Ajit Pawar camp has convened separate meetings in Mumbai on Wednesday where a clear picture may emerge on the exact number of MLAs backing each group amid the contrasting claims. After taking oath as deputy chief minister in the Shiv Sena-BJP cabinet, Ajit Pawar on Sunday…
