Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a bilateral meeting with President of Timor-Leste Jose Ramos-Horta here on Tuesday with the discussions covering cooperation in various fields including health, traditional medicine, energy, IT, fintech and capacity building, an MEA official said. PM Modi reached Ahmedabad on Monday night. On Tuesday morning, he reached the Mahatma Mandir…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hailed the start of oil production from state-owned ONGC’s flagship deep-sea project in Krishna Godavari basin, saying this is a remarkable step in India’s energy journey and boosts the mission for an ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’. In a post on X, Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, “As India…
New Delhi: Compassion and sympathy have no role to play where rule of law is required to be enforced, the Supreme Court said on Monday while refusing to accept the plea of protection of the liberty of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case and let them remain out of prison. The top court said…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday quashed the Gujarat government’s decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the case of gangrape of Bilkis Bano and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 riots in the state. Holding the PIL challenging the remission as maintainable, a bench of Justices B V…
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday secured a record fourth straight term as her Awami League party won two-thirds of the seats in the general elections marred by sporadic violence and a boycott by the main opposition BNP and its allies. Hasina’s party won 200 seats in the 300-seat parliament while counting is…
New Delhi: For the first time, a C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out a night landing at the high-altitude Kargil advanced landing ground near the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan. The night landing of the tactical lift aircraft with the elite Garud commandos on board at the…
Thiruvananthapuram: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday drew analogies from the epic Ramayana to explain diplomatic situations. He said that nations can be tested by their neighbours, much like Lord Rama was tested by Parshurama. Just as Lord Rama needed a Lakshmana, every country needs strong, almost brother-like friendships, he said. Jaishankar was delivering…
Bengaluru: Aditya L1, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) maiden solar mission, successfully entered its final maneuver to reach its destination and was injected into its final orbit on Saturday. ISRO chief S Somanath told news agency ANI on Monday “Aditya-L1 is going to reach its L1 point on January 6 at 4 pm and…
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Bongaon Municipality’s former chairman Shankar Adhya in the early hours of Saturday in connection with the alleged ration scam in West Bengal, officials said. Adhya, a TMC leader in the North 24 Parganas district, was arrested from his residence in Simultola in Bongaon after searches were conducted by the…
New Delhi: The Indian economy is estimated to grow by 7.3 percent in 2023-24 fiscal against 7.2 percent a year ago, mainly due to good show by mining and quarrying, manufacturing, and certain segments of services sectors. As per the first advance estimates of national income released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on Friday,…
