Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said the ambitious Mumbai Coastal Road project would decongest the Western Express Highway, which carries around 60 per cent of the city’s traffic, and asserted that the Bandra-Versova stretch would be completed by March 2028. “Nearly 60 per cent of Mumbai’s traffic uses the Western Express Highway….
Dubai: At least 14 Indian crew members were safely evacuated from an Indian vessel that suffered an engine failure off the Oman coast. The ill-fated boat, identified as the Mechanised Sailing Vessel (MSV) Virat 1, sank soon after. The Indian embassy said that the rescue operation was coordinated with Omani authorities and other vessels in…
Bengaluru: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of “undermining” the achievements of India and its people while targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Centre. She said Rahul was “ignoring” India’s achievements even in the face of major crises like COVID and the conflict in West Asia….
New Delhi: New companies are likely to invest in India to manufacture memory chips while existing investors will scale up production to address the demand-supply gap in the segment, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in an interview to PTI. Strong demand for memory (data storage) cards and advanced chips has tightened global supplies and supported…
New Delhi: In a scathing attack on the Modi government, the Congress on Sunday said India must put off the upcoming visit of US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and asserted that any self-respecting nation will do more than mere phone calls and press statements to defend its sovereignty against “bullies”. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his “silence” on the killing of three Indian seafarers, and alleged that no proof is required that he had “belittled” India’s global standing and sovereignty. Kharge alleged that India’s national interests are being surrendered on a daily basis. “Even as the…
Lucknow: The Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party, a constituent of the BJP-led NDA, has staked a claim to 32 seats for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, intending to wrest the Samajwadi Party’s stronghold of Azamgarh. Speaking to PTI, the party’s national general secretary and chief spokesperson, Arun Rajbhar said the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP)…
Sydney: The United States government’s recent release of hundreds of previously classified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) cases spanning the 1940s to the present, along with the new Steven Spielberg movie, Disclosure Day, about extraterrestrial life, has fuelled the idea that aliens are visiting Earth. In fact, polls in Australia, the US, and elsewhere indicate around…
New Delhi: CineNow Ltd, a British Virgin Islands-registered company, is in the process of closing a Rs 1,350 crore fund with commitments from overseas investors and family offices to finance films in India. Most of the commitments have come for this close-ended fund with a tenure of 6 years, CineNow founder director Rohit Dalmia told…
Washington/Islamabad: US President Donald Trump on Saturday said a deal to end the war with Iran would be signed on Sunday and that the strategic Strait of Hormuz would be “open to all” immediately afterwards. Trump’s comments came hours after Pakistan indicated that the United States and Iran were in the final stage of negotiations…
