Aligarh (UP): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday alleged that indigenous, small and cottage-scale industries and artisans are suffering in the country as traders linked to large corporate groups were flooding the markets with Chinese goods. He was addressing a gathering after his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ arrived here from Moradabad via Sambhal. Gandhi was greeted…
Rajkot: England succumbed to their trial by spin as India were set 192 to win the fourth Test and with it the series, Dhruv Jurel’s match-turning knock of 90 followed by another five-wicket haul for Ravichandran Ashwin. After India turned an overnight 219 for seven into 307 all out, whittling a first-innings deficit down to…
Lucknow/New Delhi: Ahead of the upcoming general elections, BSP Lok Sabha MP from Ambedkar Nagar Ritesh Pandey on Sunday resigned from the party’s primary membership and joined the BJP in New Delhi. In his resignation letter addressed to BSP president Mayawati, Pandey said he has come to the conclusion that the party does not need…
Bengaluru: The BJP and the ruling Congress — the key contenders in the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka — are grappling with the challenges of finding winning candidates in several constituencies with stakes high for the two national parties. The BJP had swept the 2019 general elections, bagging 25 of the total 28 seats in…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday stressed the need to protect the youth from drug addiction and said a strong family support system is needed to combat the vice. “For building a substance-free India, families must be strong as an institution,” he said in a video address to the ‘Ashwamedha Yagya’ event organized…
Charleston: Indian-American presidential candidate Nikki Haley lost to former president Donald Trump in her home state of South Carolina, despite giving a better-than-expected fight in the Republican presidential primary. Refusing to give up, the 52-year-old two-time former governor of South Carolina on Saturday vowed to take the fight to the Super Tuesday states on March…
Karachi: New Zealand Cricket will send a security delegation to Pakistan ahead of their five-match T20I series in April this year. A reliable source close to the Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed that the delegation would include private security expert Reg Dickason and a senior official of the NZ Players Association Heath Mills. Dickason has been…
Devbhumi Dwaraka: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated ‘Sudarshan Setu’, the country’s longest cable-stayed bridge of 2.32 km, on the Arabian sea connecting Beyt Dwarka island to mainland Okha in Gujarat’s Devbhumi Dwarka district. Modi began his day by offering prayers at Lord Sri Krishna temple at Beyt Dwarka. He later inaugurated the four-lane…
New Delhi: DRDO Chairman Samir V Kamat on Saturday said the Indian government’s determination to make India self-reliant in defence production has led to a leap in the sector. Asked about what made the ‘Make in India’ a success story, Kamat said, “Several factors have made this story possible, the first amongst it is government…
Karwar (Karnataka) : Calling Chief Minister Siddaramaiah “Siddaramulla Khan”, BJP MP Anantkumar Hegde has alleged that Karnataka is becoming bankrupt under the Congress government led by him, which wants to loot the state to garner votes. Hitting back at Hegde, CM Siddaramaiah dubbed BJP as “anti Muslims” and “anti minority”. “Modi brought more than 370…
