Chennai: An eminent plant geneticist and Father of the Green Revolution in India, Dr M S Swaminathan, died at the age of 98 on Thursday. He was also the founder of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) established in 1988. Born in Kumbakonam, he earned his bachelor’s degree in agricultural sciences at the Madras Agricultural…
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has referred MPs’ complaints on the issue involving BJP member Ramesh Bidhuri’s use of objectionable words against BSP’s Danish Ali to the Privileges Committee, sources said on Thursday. While Ali and several other opposition MPs, including Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and DMK’s Kanimozhi, demanded action against Bidhuri,…
Chennai: The BJP, which was initially dazed over the AIADMK’s decision to break up ties with it in Tamil Nadu, will discuss the issue and the other political developments at the party’s core committee and executive committee meeting soon, a senior leader said on Thursday. Terming the Dravidian major’s announcement to part ways with the BJP-led…
New Delhi: The US Mission to India on Thursday surpassed its goal to process one million non-immigrant visa applications this year with Ambassador Eric Garcetti personally handing over the one millionth visa to a couple, who will be heading to the United States to attend their son’s graduation at MIT. Dr Ranju Singh, senior consultant, Lady…
New Delhi: The Election Commission will be on a three-day visit to Rajasthan beginning Friday to assess preparedness in the poll-bound state. Chief Election Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, Election Commissioners Anup Chandra Pandey and Arun Goyal will hold a meeting with representatives of recognised political parties in Jaipur on Friday, Chief Electoral Officer Praveen Gupta said. After…
Washington: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is scheduled to meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken here on Thursday, amid the diplomatic rumpus between India and Canada stirred over the killing of a Khalistani separatist. Although officials from both sides are tightlipped about the agenda of the meeting, the latest diplomatic crisis between two of America’s…
New York: India-China relations have been in an “abnormal state” since the 2020 Galwan Valley clash and it is a “possibly longer than medium-term issue”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said, emphasising that none of the explanations given by Beijing for amassing its troops along the LAC are really tenable. India has been consistently maintaining…
Hyderabad: On Wednesday, a bench of Telangana High court upheld the Singh Judge orders that nullify the Group-I Preliminary Examination held on June 11, 2023. It also directed the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) to conduct he exam afresh, adhering strictly to all the general instructions specified in the notification, including the mandatory use…
New Delhi: A new bench of the Supreme Court will hear on October 3 former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s petition for quashing the FIR against him in the alleged Rs 371 crore scam in the state’s Skill Development Corporation, after Justice SVN Bhatti Wednesday recused himself from hearing it. Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra,…
New Delhi: Internet major Google will roll out an earthquake alert service in India that works using sensors in Android smartphones to detect and estimate the intensity of earthquakes, the company said on Wednesday. Google has introduced “Android Earthquake Alerts System” in India in consultation with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the National Seismology…
