Washington: India has a lot of opportunities due to its talent base and its ability to stand up as a second big manufacturing base outside of China and can play a leading role in technological areas being identified as critical by Quad nations, the head of the Quad Investment Network has said. Karl Mehta, chairman of…
London: Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has shocked the nation by abruptly quitting as a member of the parliament after being told by a parliamentary committee that he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament over lockdown-breaking parties at Downing Street during his premiership. Johnson, 58, had been under investigation by a parliamentary inquiry looking into…
Bhopal: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar will arrive in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday afternoon on a two-day tour of the state to pay obeisance at three revered shrines, including Ujjain’s Mahakaleshwar temple, said the Congress. The visit is being seen as a thanksgiving trip after the Congress pulled off an emphatic victory in the…
New Delhi: In one of the biggest demonstrations of its operational prowess in recent years, the Indian Navy on Saturday carried out a mission in the Arabian Sea that involved two aircraft carriers, multiple warships, submarines and over 35 frontline planes amid China’s increasing forays into the Indian Ocean. The Navy’s aircraft carriers — INS…
New Delhi: Ever since the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has conceptualized the Athmanirbhar Bharat with the sole objective to encourage our defence labs and other manufacturing public sector units and discourage dependence of external help, appears to have started paying rich dividends, that too in such a short time. This is evident from the…
Hyderabad: State Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday reiterated that his government has taken up the most daring administrative reforms to bring public administration closer to the people, and succeeded too. At the same time, he said the redistribution of administrative departments was also undertaken to create new administrative units, Taking part in the state…
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday dismissed as rumours reports that its leader Sachin Pilot may announce a separate party on his father Rajesh Pilot’s death anniversary on June 11. Congress general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal said the party is united and will contest the upcoming assembly elections in Rajasthan together, a day ahead of…
New Delhi: Many newborns are dying because the antibiotics used to treat sepsis are losing their effectiveness, according to a global observational study which involved over 3,200 newborn babies suffering from the infection in 11 countries, including India. The study, conducted from 2018 to 2020 and co-authored by a team of over 80 researchers, found there…
New Delhi: Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekar on Friday hit out at the Congress government in Karnataka over reports about it removing a lesson on RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar from school textbooks, saying the party’s views on history are limited to the Nehru-Gandhi family. The senior BJP leader termed the reported move as Congress antics to…
New Delhi: Gold jumps Rs 440 to Rs 60,820 per 10 grams in the national capital on Friday amid strong global trends, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the precious metal had ended at Rs 60,380 per 10 grams. Silver also zoomed Rs 1,050 to Rs 74,350 per kilogramme. “Gold prices edged higher in…
