New Delhi: Boosting trade and investment ties with Japan and steps to further normalise relations with China are expected to be the main focus of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s four-day visit to the two countries beginning Friday. Modi’s visit to the two leading economic powerhouses comes amid a downturn in India-US relations over President Donald…
Varanasi (UP): With water level in the Ganga river rising steadily, normal activities on the ghats of Varanasi have been disrupted, including the ‘aarti’ ritual and cremations, officials said on Thursday. After a slight drop in the past few days, the water level on Thursday morning crossed the warning mark of 70.262 metres to reach…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday said the loss of lives due to a building collapse in Maharashtra is extremely tragic and prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured. At least 17 people were killed and several were injured after an allegedly unauthorised building, housing 50 flats, collapsed in Vijay Nagar in Maharashtra’s…
Palghar: The death toll in the collapse of a building at Virar in Maharashtra’s Palghar district has gone up to 15 with the recovery of three more bodies overnight, officials said on Thursday. The unauthorised four-storey building, housing nearly 50 flats, collapsed on an adjacent vacant tenement at Vijay Nagar in Virar area at 12.05…
Mumbai: Maharashtra minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule has said the state government stands firm on granting reservation to the Maratha community without disturbing quota for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs). His remarks come amid a stir launched by activist Manoj Jarange seeking 10 per cent reservation to the Maratha community under the OBC grouping. Jarange set out…
Srinagar: Two terrorists were killed as security forces foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Gurez sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district, the Army said on Thursday. “Based on intelligence provided by Jammu and Kashmir Police regarding a likely infiltration attempt, a joint operation was launched by the Indian Army…
Bhopal: Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has raised the pitch for swadeshi goods on a day the additional tariffs imposed by the US on Indian merchandise came into force. “Whatever may be the circumstances, we will take our country forward”, he told reporters after consecrating an idol of Lord Ganesh at his residence in…
Mhow (MP): The “dissonance” in the military on the proposed tri-services commands will be addressed considering the “best national interest”, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan said on Wednesday after the fissures over the ambitious theaterisation plan came out in the open. The divergent views on the proposed theater commands was visible at a…
New Delhi: The IAF on Wednesday flew six helicopters for relief and rescue operations in the flooded parts of Jammu and northern Punjab, winching up 38 soldiers of the army and 10 of the BSF from Dera Baba Nanak town of Gurdaspur in a high-stakes rescue operation, an official said. Earlier in the day, an…
Jammu: More than 5,000 people were evacuated from the banks of various flooded rivers and inundated low-lying areas in the Jammu region as rescue agencies and the administration continued to reach out to stranded people in flood-hit Jammu and Samba districts. Most of the Jammu division, which has been inundated by flash floods triggered by…
