Hoshiarpur/Kapurthala: Agricultural fields in the low-lying areas adjoining the river Beas in several villages of the Tanda region in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district have been inundated due to the release of water from the Pong Dam in Talwara following heavy rainfall in the upper reaches of the river, officials said on Monday. A nearly 100-foot breach…
New Delhi: India and China are in an “advanced stage” of negotiations to resume direct flight services between the two countries soon, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The development comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s likely visit to the Chinese city of Tianjin later this month to attend the annual summit…
New Delhi: Ahead of Independence Day celebrations, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on Tuesday organised a ‘Tiranga Yatra’ in which around 5,000 students from its Atal Adarsh and Navyug schools took part. The march began from Janpath Radial Circle at Connaught Place, filling the inner circle with the Tricolour and patriotic fervour, an official…
New Delhi: India and Australia on Tuesday held talks focusing on developments relating to nuclear non-proliferation, disarmament, and security of outer space. The discussions took place at a meeting of the India-Australia bilateral dialogue on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control. “The two sides discussed developments in the areas of nuclear, chemical, biological disarmament and non-proliferation,…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday commenced hearing a batch of pleas challenging the Election Commission’s decision to conduct a special intensive revision (SIR) exercise in poll-bound Bihar. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi began hearing senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for RJD leader Manoj Jha, arguing that while in one…
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused the Election Commission of not performing its duty of enforcing the ‘one man, one vote’ principle and said “abhi picture baki hai”, alluding to the claims of irregularities in the voters’ list. Gandhi asserted that his party was engaged in protecting the Constitution and would continue…
New Delhi: Several MPs of the INDIA bloc parties held a protest in the Parliament House complex on Tuesday against the Election Commission’s voter roll revision in Bihar, with many of them wearing white T-shirts that had the name of a “124-year-old voter” allegedly found on the state’s voters’ list emblazoned on it. Congress president…
Bhubaneshwar: The BJD said that it would approach the Orissa High Court regarding “discrepancies” during the 2024 assembly and Lok Sabha polls, as the EC has “failed” to give any satisfactory reply to the regional outfit on the issue. BJD spokesperson Amar Patnaik, MLA Dhruba Charan Sahoo, and former MP Sarmistha Sethi announced at a…
New Delhi: The parliamentary panel on external affairs has expressed “concern” over the “escalating Chinese presence and its increasing influence” in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), saying the development poses “substantial risks” to India’s national security and broader strategic interests. Of “equal concern” is the “strengthening of the China-Pakistan naval nexus”, which not only facilitates…
New Delhi: Coast guards of India and Sri Lanka, led by their top officers, held a key meeting here on Monday and discussed ways to strengthen cooperative engagements in the fields of marine pollution response, maritime search and rescue, and maritime law enforcement. The eighth high-level meeting between the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and the…
