New Delhi: All central government offices across the country will remain closed for half a day on January 22, due to the Ram temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya, a Personnel Ministry order issued on Thursday said. The ‘Pran Pratishtha’ ceremony of the new idol of Ram Lalla at the sanctum sanctorum of the Ram temple is…
New Delhi: The Gulf of Aden witnesses another drone attack on a merchant vessel (MV). A Marshall Island-flagged cargo vessel with 22 crew members, including nine Indians, came under a drone strike in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday night and the Indian Navy swiftly responded to the attack, officials said. Indian Navy on Thursday said,…
Chennai: DMK leader and Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Thursday said his party is not against the Ram temple at Ayodhya but is opposed to the shrine coming up after “demolishing a mosque”. The late DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi had stated that DMK is not against a particular religion or faith, Udhayanidhi said, speaking…
Davos: Chief Minister of Telangana, Revanth Reddy, and Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, met during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024 in Davos, Switzerland, and discussed Tata group’s ongoing and future business plans for Telangana. The Tata Sons Group has a very large and diversified business presence in Telangana. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS),…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Thursday that a transparent system put in by his government, its honest efforts and emphasis on people’s participation have led to nearly 25 crore people being lifted out of poverty in the last nine years. Nobody could have thought that poverty in India can decline but the…
New Delhi: The international team, led by the University of Cambridge, used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect the black hole, which dates from 400 million years after the big bang, more than 13 billion years ago. The results, which lead author Professor Roberto Maiolino says are “a giant leap forward”, are…
Davos: Indian economy should record a growth rate of 7 per cent in the next fiscal and inflation is likely to ease further, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Wednesday. He also credited the government for structural reforms undertaken in recent years, saying they have boosted the medium and long-term growth prospects of the Indian…
Davos: The United States’ re-engagement with China should not be seen as having any implication on the strong ties it has with India and its commitments to the QUAD grouping, a top US official said on Wednesday. The US has been re-engaging with China at various levels after months of no contact with military as…
New Delhi: Investors became poorer by Rs 4.59 lakh crore on Wednesday due to a sharp fall in the equity markets where the BSE Sensex plummeted 1,628 points, dragged by bank stocks and weak global trends. Extending its previous day’s decline, the 30-share BSE Sensex tanked 1,628.01 points or 2.23 per cent to settle at…
Pune: On Wednesday, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R Hari Kumar said the Indian Navy is tackling piracy in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) aggressively and has increased the deployment of warships in the area. Speaking to the media at INS Shivaji after the inauguration of a CO2-based air-conditioning plant built indigenously in collaboration with…
