New Delhi: India does not want fenced habitats for cheetahs like the ones in South Africa and Namibia as it is against the basic tenets of wildlife conservation, the head of the Centre’s high-level committee set up to monitor the cheetah reintroduction project said on Thursday. Experts from South Africa and Namibia, who are helping reintroduce…
Mumbai: Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said the Centre was sensitively handling the issue of protesting wrestlers, who are seeking the arrest of outgoing WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations. Thakur, who is on a visit to Mumbai, told reporters that the government has accepted the wrestlers’ demand for…
New Delhi: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said BJP will again win the Lok Sabha elections scheduled to be held next year, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Addressing ‘Times Network India Economic Conclave’, Gadkari further said the government has done good work for the country’s development in the last nine years. There is…
New Delhi: India and Nepal will strive to take their bilateral ties to Himalayan heights and resolve all matters, including the boundary issue, in this spirit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday after holding wide-ranging talks with his Nepalese counterpart Pushpakamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’. In his media statement after the meeting, Modi said he and Prachanda…
New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday accused Rahul Gandhi of “spreading a market of pessimism, hate and distrust” against India’s development journey as it cited the robust 7.2 per cent annual economic growth of the country to target the Congress leader. Addressing a press conference, BJP leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Gandhi’s…
Imphal: Reiterating that mistrust and violence in Manipur was triggered by “a verdict of a court”, Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday announced that a judicial commission, headed by a retired high court judge, will probe the incident. He further announced that families of those who lost their lives will get Rs 5 lakh…
New Delhi: A day after the SEBI proposed mandating additional disclosure for high-risk Foreign Portfolio Investors, the Congress on Thursday alleged that the regulator was now looking to tighten the very rules it was “forced to dilute” in 2018 to benefit the Adani Group. Capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on…
New Delhi: Security was tightened at Delhi’s border points on Thursday in view of a call for nationwide demonstrations given by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) in support of wrestlers protesting against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. Security personnel are maintaining strict vigil at the border points and extra pickets have been…
Samba/Jammu: A suspected Pakistani intruder was shot dead by BSF troops along the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district in the early hours of Thursday, officials said. The incident took place near Mangu Chak border outpost (BoP) in Samba sector around 2:50 am, they said. “In the early hours today, alert BSF troops…
Srinagar: The apprehensions about the influx of Taliban fighters into Kashmir after the fall of Kabul in 2021 did not materialise and no Afghani Taliban has infiltrated into the valley, a senior Army officer has said here. General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Chinar Corps Lieutenant General A D S Aujla also said that due to…
