Lucknow: A Labour Party candidate’s landslide victory in the UK general elections sparked celebrations thousands of kilometres away in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur and Gorakhpur. Navendu Mishra, elected to the House of Commons for a second consecutive term from the Stockport constituency, was born in Kanpur in 1989. His mother’s paternal home is in Gorakhpur. Mishra’s…
Dharamsala (HP): Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama turned 89 on Saturday and in his birthday message said he is physically fit and is determined to continue his service to Lord Buddha’s teachings. The Dalai Lama is in the US where he is recovering from a knee-replacement surgery. “I am nearly 90 now but don’t feel…
New Delhi: Parliament’s Budget Session will be held between July 22 and August 12, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Saturday. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget on July 23. Rijiju said, “Hon’ble President of India, on the recommendation of Government of India, has approved the proposal for summoning of both…
New Delhi: Indigenous production in India’s defense sector has reached an all-time high, hitting approximately Rs 1.27 lakh crore for the financial year 2023-24. This record-breaking achievement is the result of a consistent increase in production values since 2019-20. The Ministry of Defence announced on Friday, “According to data from all Defence Public Sector Undertakings…
New Delhi: The ties between Iran and India are set to remain strong, regardless of the outcome of the Presidential elections. The results, expected this afternoon, see a contest between centrist Masoud Pezeshkian and hardline conservative Saeed Jalili. Iranians went to the polls on Friday for a Presidential run-off after the June 28th elections were…
Chennai: The city Police on Saturday said the killing of Tamil Nadu BSP chief K Armstrong by a group of assailants was not political in nature and that all angles were being probed. Eight suspects in the case were nabbed within three hours of the crime on Friday, City Police Commissioner Sandeep Rai Rathore told…
Gopeshwar: Two tourists from Hyderabad died in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on Saturday after being hit by boulders following a landslide, police said. They said the accident occurred on the Badrinath National Highway near Chatwapeepal between Gauchar and Karnaprayag. Police said Nirmal Shahi (36) and Satya Narayana (50) were returning from the Himalayan temple on a…
London/New Delhi: Britain’s newly-elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday morning and said he stood ready to conclude a Free Trade Agreement that worked for both sides, Downing Street said. India and the UK have been negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) for over two years with a Conservative…
Ahmedabad: Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said here on Saturday that his party will defeat the BJP in Gujarat in the next election the same way it did in Ayodhya in the recent Lok Sabha polls. The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha made the remark while addressing a party workers’ convention in Ahmedabad….
Mumbai: Months after former Maharashtra minister Ravindra Waikar switched over to Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena from the Uddhav Thackeray-led party, the Mumbai police’s Economic Offences Wing has filed a closure report in a case against him for alleged irregularities in the construction of a luxury hotel here, an official said on Saturday. Waikar is currently…
