Seville (Spain):Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari on Wednesday received the first of the 56 C295 transport aircraft two years after India sealed a Rs 21,935-crore deal with Airbus Defence and Space to procure the jets to replace its ageing Avro–748 fleet. Air Chief Marshal Chaudhari, receiving the aircraft at the aerospace…
New Delhi: Opposition I.N.D.I.A. bloc on Wednesday decided to hold their first joint public meeting in Bhopal in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh in the first week of October, and said the constituent parties will start seat-sharing talks at the earliest. They said they will raise issues related to rising prices, unemployment, corruption and caste census. This…
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday allocated Rs 1,650 crore towards the release of additional 75 lakh free LPG connections under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) over three years ending March 2026. As per the existing modalities of Ujjawala 2.0, the first refill and stove will also be provided free of cost to Ujjwala…
Bengaluru: “Salaar” will not hit the screens on its scheduled release date of September 28 due to “unforeseen circumstances”, the makers announced Wednesday. In a statement on X, production house Hombale Films said it will reveal the new date of the Prabhas-starrer in due course. “We deeply appreciate your unwavering support for #Salaar. With consideration, we…
New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday slammed the INDIA bloc meeting as a get together of “Anti-Hindu Coordination Committee” as it kept the heat on the opposition over the Sanatan Dharma issue following DMK leaders’ strident criticism of the ancient faith. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra also launched a sharp attack on Congress leader Sonia Gandhi over…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be accorded a rousing welcome at the BJP headquarters here on Wednesday evening when he arrives to attend its central election committee meeting, party leaders said. This will be Modi’s first visit to the party office after he chaired the G20 summit here last weekend, which has been seen…
Jaipur: Eleven people from Gujarat were killed and at least 15 injured when a trailer rammed into their bus from behind in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district early on Wednesday, police said. The bus was on its way from Gujarat to Mathura in Uttar Pradesh when the accident occurred around 4.30 am, they said. Expressing grief at…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has finally left New Delhi but not before facing the embarrassment of his lacklustre response to India’s concerns over the growing threats of Khalistanis to India’s interests in his country. He was to fly on Sunday after the G20 Summit but a mechanical snag grounded him for 48-hours. During his bilateral meeting…
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray called on Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar here on Tuesday on the eve of the first meeting of the coordination committee of the opposition alliance I.N.D.I.A. The meeting between Thackeray and Pawar lasted for about 90 minutes and took place at the latter’s ‘Silver Oak’ residence…
(…….Continued) Religion – A Set of Beliefs: We see two aspects in any religion. The first is the usefulness of religion in bringing about social harmony and compliance to a moral code. The very word religion is from a Latin root ‘ligare’, to bind. It binds people to certain common norms. This is what is…
