New Delhi: The BJP on Friday appointed senior leaders Rajnath Singh, Manohar Lal Khattar and Arjun Munda as central observers for electing the leader of the legislative party in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh respectively. The new legislative party leaders are set to become chief ministers of the three states. According to a party statement, besides…
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India on Friday decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent for the fifth time in a row as it maintains a tight vigil on inflation. The rate increase cycle was paused in April after six consecutive rate hikes, aggregating to 250 basis points since May 2022. Announcing…
Hyderabad: Former Telangana Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) founder K Chandrasekhara Rao (KCR), on Friday morning was rushed to a private corporate hospital after he hurt his leg at his farmhouse. According to party sources, KCR slipped and fell at his farmhouse leading to an injury. He was soon taken to a private…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the biggest face of the Other Backward Class (OBC) and Extremely Backward Class (EBC) categories in the country, Union minister Nityanand Rai said on Thursday, adding the Bharatiya Janata Party will win all 40 seats in Bihar in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. “The JD-U is finished in Bihar….
New Delhi: Working on seat sharing agreements will be on the top of the agenda at the upcoming meeting of the I.N.D.I.A. bloc, likely to be held between December 17 and 20, sources have said. According to sources, while a date for the meeting has not been finalised yet, the meeting will be held in…
London: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s leadership of the governing Conservative Party is facing turmoil on Thursday after a bruising Cabinet resignation and open attacks by backbenchers over his government’s controversial policy to deport illegal migrants to Rwanda. The 43-year-old British Indian prime minister is caught in the middle of two strands within his party,…
New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday criticised Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s “Bihar DNA” remark and demanded that the Congress and other members of the opposition INDIA bloc condemn his comment and ask him to apologise. Reddy reportedly said during a recent interaction with journalists that K Chandrashekar Rao, the first chief minister of Telangana,…
New Delhi: Certain crop plants are less prone to harm caused by ground-level ozone pollution, according to a study that opens the door to better models for predicting crop responses to the effects of climate change. The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also pave the way for developing more…
New Delhi: Researchers have evaluated the efficacy of current therapy regimens for the neglected tropical disease, Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), and published their findings in The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia journal. The researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 131 studies aimed at quantifying the proportion of relapses observed at and beyond 6-months using the University of Oxford’s…
New Delhi: Teaming up of manned and unmanned military assets will be a major aspect in new-generation avionics to prepare for future warfare and India is making concerted efforts in this direction, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan said on Thursday. In an address at an aviation expo, the top military official also underlined the…
