Noida: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has never done politics on the basis of religion or by dividing the society and stressed that his predecessor Dr Manmohan Singh had in 2006 talked about extending reservation for the Muslims. The defence minister made the remarks at an election rally in…
New Delhi: India was the fourth largest military spender globally in 2023 with an expenditure of USD 83.6 billion, behind the US, China and Russia, according to a report by an independent international think-tank. The report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) shared on its website in April also said the “rise” in global…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday ruled that public sector banks do not have the power in law to issue Look Out Circulars (LOCs) against default borrowers. The HC’s verdict would render all LOCs issued by such banks against defaulters as quashed. A division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Madhav Jamdar held as…
Thiruvananthapuram: The electoral landscape of Thiruvananthapuram and Attingal Lok Sabha constituencies has always been intricately intertwined with the delicate balance of CSI Nadar, Latin Catholic, and Ezhava votes, each group having the potential to sway the outcome in favor of a particular political front. The UDF’s fortunes in these areas hinge significantly on minority votes,…
Hubbali: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday spoke to the father of slain student Neha Hirenmath over the phone and said “sorry” over his daughter’s killing and assured that “we will be on your side.” The Chief Minister also informed Niranjan Hiremath, who is also a Congress councillor of Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation, about the government’s…
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh): TDP’s candidate for Guntur Lok Sabha seat, Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar, has captured headlines after he declared his family assets—both movable and immovable—at Rs 5,785 crore in his election affidavit, potentially making him one of the wealthiest contestants in the current electoral race. According to an affidavit filed by him, his individual assets…
Jaipur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the Congress tried to extend reservation on the basis of religion and give it to Muslims, and once again accused the party of hatching a “deep conspiracy” to snatch people’s wealth and distribute it among “select” people. Launching a blistering attack on the Congress, Modi also charged…
New Delhi: None of the G7 members are on track to meet their existing emission reduction targets for 2030, according to a new analysis released on Tuesday. The analysis by Climate Analytics, a global climate science and policy institute, comes ahead of the G7 climate, energy, and environment ministers’ meeting in Venaria Reale, Italy, during…
Washington: Educational institutions of higher learning in India and the United States are working to create a curriculum on infrastructure resilience, Samantha Power, Administrator for the USAID, said on Monday. “We are going to be working with universities like Virginia Tech and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to create a curriculum on infrastructure resilience,…
Washington: Two Indian students’ teams from the New Delhi area and Mumbai have won awards from the NASA for the Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The KIET Group of Institutions, Delhi-NCR has won the award in the “Crash and Burn” category of the annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) award, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
