Ahmedabad: Cyclone ‘Biparjoy’ was likely to make landfall near Jakhau port in Gujarat’s Kutch district on Thursday afternoon as a ‘very severe cyclonic storm’ with maximum wind speed reaching up to 150 kilometres per hour, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday. Officials said authorities in the coastal districts of Kutch, Porbandar, Devbhumi Dwarka, Jamnagar,…
Kurukshetra: Farmers on Monday blocked the Delhi-Chandigarh highway after holding a mahapanchayat in this district to press for minimum support price for sunflower seed. The “MSP Dilao, Kisan Bachao mahapanchayat”, called by Bharatiya Kisan Union (Charuni), was held at a grain market in Pipli close to National Highway-44. After the mahapanchayat the farmers gathered on the…
Jammu: Nearly 29 CCTV cameras will be installed in and around the main base camp for Amarnath pilgrims in the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, said an official on Monday. The Yatri Niwas Bhagwati Nagar in Jammu serves as the main base camp for pilgrims from across the country before they leave for Kashmir to…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reviewed the situation related to Cyclone Biparjoy which is likely to hit the Kutch region of Gujarat on Thursday. The meeting was attended by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister P K Mishra, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, Earth Sciences Secretary M Ravichandran, Kamal…
Visakhapatnam (AP): A state-of-the-art laboratory for conducting “groundbreaking research” in areas such as biotechnology, material sciences and cancer biology has come up in a leading academic campus in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam. Christened ‘Multidisciplinary Unit of Research on Translational Initiatives’ (MURTI), the research infrastructure is housed in the campus of GITAM (deemed to be university) here….
New Delhi: India and the UAE look to more than double non-oil bilateral trade to USD 100 billion by 2030, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday. At present, the non-oil bilateral trade stands at USD 48 billion. The new target was agreed upon during the first meeting of the Joint Committee of India-UAE…
Thane: Maharashtra’s Thane police was on Monday granted transit remand by a local court to take Shahnawaz Khan, the prime accused in an Uttar Pradesh case allegedly involving religious conversion of youngsters through an online gaming app, to Ghaziabad, an official said. Khan, who hails from Mumbra township here, was arrested from a relative’s place in…
Lahore: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has expressed his optimism that Pakistan, which has fulfilled “all the preconditions” of the IMF, will still be able to sign a staff-level agreement with the global lender to revive the stalled bailout programme for the cash-strapped country. Sharif’s remarks came as many believe that Pakistan’s chances for the revival…
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New Delhi: Energy transition platform Amp Energy India has secured up to USD 250 million (around Rs 2,061 crore) from SMBC Bank of Japan (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation), ICG (Intermediate Capital Group), and AIIB (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank). City-based Amp Energy India with a total portfolio of 2.7GW-plus spread across 17 states in the country,…
