Singapore: India will play an increasingly important role globally as the world “inexorably” transitions into multipolarity, Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said after holding talks with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar on Sunday. Jaishankar, who was in this city-state as part of his two-nation trip, also met President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Deputy Prime Minister Gan…
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha nominee Ujjwal Nikam recalled his conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday ahead of the Ministry of Home’s notification about Rajya Sabha nominations. He told news agency ANI that he had received a phone call from PM Narendra Modi, who asked him if he should talk in Hindi or Marathi. “He spoke…
LUCKNOW: (Jul 13) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that the Brahmos missile proved instrumental in Operation Sindoor and since then, more than a dozen countries have expressed interest in it. Singh said this at an event in Lucknow where he unveiled a statue of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Chandra Bhanu Gupta at…
London: Washington Sundar put India in the best possible position to win the Lord’s Test with a four-wicket haul before batters stuttered to 58 for four at stumps on day four, chasing 193 on a rapidly deteriorating pitch in London on Sunday. After the good work of the pacers, Washington made the ball talk with…
London: Jannik Sinner halted Carlos Alcaraz’s winning run as he defeated the two-time defending champion in the Wimbledon 2025 final in a four-set thriller. Sinner has become the first-ever Italian player to win the Wimbledon title with his victory over Alcaraz by 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Sinner completed his Roland Garros redemption as he handed Alcaraz…
There was a time when we had to wait for years just to get a landline connection, merely to speak with someone outside our city, or the country. The communication revolution truly began with the advent of fiber-optic networks in the late 1980s. It transformed the way we stayed in touch with the world and…
On Wednesday, India witnessed a sweeping nationwide strike as lakhs of workers, farmers, and trade union members took to the streets, protesting the central government’s economic and labour policies—policies they denounced as anti-worker and pro-corporate. Exempting essential services such as hospitals, pharmacies, airports, and metro rail, over 25 crore workers across India participated in the…
The demon hosts, cast into disarray, could no longer restrain the storming vanara legions whose fury shattered the silence of Lanka. Scattered in confusion, they fled in clusters, wailing to their king that the golden city was under siege. Ravana, lord of fearsome might, made swift arrangements to repel the threat. Ascending the towering ramparts…
Oneshwar Mahadev Temple is located in Deval village in the Pratapnagar region of the Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand. The temple is believed to be centuries old, is nestled in the hills of the Garhwal Himalayas. The presiding deity of the temple is Lord Shiva, worshipped here in the form of Oneshwar Mahadev. The name “Oneshwar”…
Lahore: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has informally kick-started the ‘Free Imran Khan movement’ from Lahore, demanding the release of the incarcerated former prime minister, with police making several arrests to prevent party workers from joining the protest, the party said on Sunday. This informal launch comes less than a month ahead of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)…
