Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said India sees itself as a “vishwamitr”, and that the world calls the country a friend. Addressing an event at Kanha Shanti Vanam, located about 50 km from here, the prime minister also said the country faced immense loss when those who enslaved it in the past attacked…
Thiruvananthapuram: India’s space economy is poised to reach USD 40 billion by 2040, and scientists will also enjoy a better working environment, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said here. The Minister of State for Science and Technology & Atomic Energy and Space (Independent Charge) said that some foreign agencies like the AKD have predicted that this figure…
New Delhi: Ahead of the Telangana Assembly polls next week, the Election Commission (EC) has issued an “advisory” to Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao for his controversial remarks against the Congress leadership, asking him to follow the provisions of the Model Code of Conduct in “letter and spirit”. On October 30, Rao had made certain threatening…
Kochi: Four students were killed, and over 60 were injured in a stampede during Cochin University annual festival here on Saturday night, police said. Officials said that the stampede occurred before well-known singer Nikita Gandhi was to perform for a musical festival in the open-air auditorium of Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) here….
Jaipur: More than 68 per cent of the electorate in Rajasthan voted by 5 pm on Saturday in a bipolar contest involving the Congress and the BJP to elect the new state government, with polling passing off peacefully barring a few stray incidents of violence. Polling at more than 51,000 polling booths in 199 assembly constituencies…
Hyderabad: Though the TRS changed its name to BRS and UPA renamed itself as the INDIA alliance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said their corruption and misrule can never be changed. Addressing an election rally at Kamareddy in Telangana, he said the commonality between the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi and Congress is that they…
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday accused the BJP-led Centre of misusing investigating agencies during elections and cited the example of Telangana where he said at least four candidates of his party were summoned or their premises searched in the midst of the poll campaign. Chidambaram said no candidate of the BJP…
New Delhi: The BJP Saturday accused Rahul Gandhi of violating poll guidelines with his post on X on the day of the Rajasthan assembly polls and urged the Election Commission to seek suspension of the Congress leader’s social media account and initiate other actions against him. In his post, Gandhi urged people to elect the…
Hyderabad: Describing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s “panauti” comments against Prime Minister Modi as ‘below the belt’, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said people will give a befitting reply to it in the upcoming assembly elections. ‘Whenever below-the-belt language was used about the Prime Minister, people have given a befitting reply in whichever state…
Mumbai: Minister of External Affairs Dr S Jaishankar on Saturday batted for shaping international relations with Indian characteristics, stressing the need for devoting more time to look at India’s reservoir of culture and knowledge. He was speaking in Pune during the ‘International Relations Conference on India’s Strategic Culture: Addressing Global and Regional Challenges’, organised by an…
