London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has concluded his visit to China, claiming to have secured billions of pounds worth of export and investment deals and bringing “stability” to previously strained relations with Beijing. Over the course of his three-day visit this week, the UK and China clinched 2.2 billion pounds in export deals, around 2.3 billion…
Mumbai: NCP (SP) Maharashtra unit president Shashikant Shinde on Saturday said his party chief Sharad Pawar and other leaders had no prior knowledge about the decision that NCP’s Sunetra Pawar would take oath as the state Deputy Chief Minister. Sunetra Pawar (62), wife of Ajit Pawar, who died in a plane crash in Baramati on…
New Delhi: Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said he did not expect the merger of two Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) factions – each headed by Ajit Pawar, who was killed in a plane crash two days ago, and his uncle Sharad Pawar. He said that the NCP, as part of the Mahayuti government in…
Patna: The Bihar government recommended a CBI probe into the recent death of a female NEET aspirant in Patna, Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary said on Saturday. A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Bihar police is investigating the case. The deceased, hailing from Jehanabad, was found unconscious in her hostel room in Patna’s Chitragupt…
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday questioned whether the Budget numbers would undergo revisions very soon after they are unveiled, as the new GDP and Consumer Price Index (CPI) series are to be released just days after the Budget, and said it reflects poorly on coordination in policy making. Congress general secretary in charge of…
Mumbai: Rajya Sabha member Sunetra Pawar, who is all set to be sworn in as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister replacing her deceased husband and NCP chief Ajit Pawar in the state cabinet, reached Mumbai on Saturday. She reached Devgiri, the official residence of her late husband in south Mumbai, in the wee hours, accompanied by…
By Shesh Narayan As a former secretary of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), I have witnessed its highs and its slow, painful descent into administrative opacity. What troubles me today is not merely a difference of opinion on governance—it is the growing normalization of parallel authority, where individuals with no formal mandate increasingly project themselves…
For years, Canada perched itself on a moral high horse, lecturing India about democracy, free speech, and the “right to dissent.” Ottawa wrapped its political indulgence of Khalistani separatist elements in the comforting language of civil liberties, even as New Delhi repeatedly warned that this was not peaceful activism, but the romanticization—and at times rehabilitation—of…
Kerala, that laminated brochure of literacy and civic virtue, has discovered a new grievance–redressal mechanism. When files do not move in government offices, the solution, it appears, is to move to the middle of the road and pray. At Palakkad’s IMA junction, a woman in her early 60s sat down in white namaz attire and…
Vadodara: Skipper Ashleigh Gardner and Georgia Wareham starred with bat and ball as Gujarat Giants finally broke their jinx against defending champions Mumbai Indians with an 11-run victory to seal a spot in the Women’s Premier League Eliminator here on Friday. Gardner smashed a counter-punching 46 off 28 balls and Wareham struck a brisk 44…
