Nagoya: Star Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu finally filled the one glaring void in her glittering trophy cabinet, turning 12 years of waiting, near-misses and heartbreak into an Asian Games silver in the women’s 49kg event here on Wednesday. The Tokyo Olympic silver medallist totalled 198kg (88kg+111kg) to claim India’s first Asian Games weightlifting medal since…
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Wednesday asserted that all its official orders, decisions and administrative directions carry full legal sanctions and that differing views and observations are a normal part of deliberation in any institution. In a statement following The Indian Express report that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had red…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday said making the state drug-free would be a top priority of his government, asserting that drug addiction was among the factors contributing to serious crimes, including those against women. Speaking after taking part in the destruction of around 3.10 lakh bottles of a banned cough syrup…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday launched Bharat Taxi service and the Mukhyamantri Krishak Samriddhi Yojana, under which small and marginal farmers will get long-term loans at a reduced interest rate of six per cent. Bharat Taxi, the country’s first cooperative-led ride-hailing platform, is operated by Sahakar Taxi Cooperative Limited (STCL). Bharat…
New Delhi: Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had flagged multiple issues, including deletion of names, in various states during the voter roll cleanup but the poll body was unanimous in its decisions related to the pan-India Special Intensive Revision of voters’ list, officials said on Wednesday. The officials made the remarks in…
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, during his bilateral meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha on the margins of the high-level UN General Assembly session, discussed recent developments in the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and put forth India’s view that dialogue and diplomacy is the way forward for a peaceful resolution of…
New Delhi: With the BRICS Summit concluding with the New Delhi Declaration, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has outlined three priorities going forward, including continued cooperation among the members of the bloc, a long-term agenda it hopes China will also engage with when it takes over the BRICS presidency, and greater sharing of best…
Muzaffarnagar/Meerut: BJP president Nitin Nabin on Tuesday expressed confidence that his party would retain power in Uttar Pradesh for a third consecutive term in the 2027 Assembly elections, citing the response of party workers and people during his ongoing visit to western UP. Tuesday was the second and final day of Nabin’s two-day visit to…
New Delhi: A delegation of Japanese parliamentarians from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have met Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, and both sides held “productive” discussions on continuing the positive momentum in the bilateral ties, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Tuesday. The delegation, led by Director General of ruling LDP’s International Bureau Taro Kono,…
Meerpur (Rewari), Sept 22: The fourth State-Level Cultural Festival was held at Indira Gandhi University (IGU), Meerpur, on Tuesday with participation from around 150 students representing 11 districts of Haryana. The festival, organised in the memory of freedom fighter Rao Tula Ram, was jointly hosted by the university’s Rao Tula Ram Chair and Department of…
