Tokyo: In a significant move, the four-nation grouping Quad on Monday announced a plan to expand its ambitious Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) programme to the Indian Ocean region that would facilitate monitoring of the strategic waters. The announcement following a Quad foreign ministerial meeting came amid concerns in New Delhi over China’s growing forays…
New Delhi: There is no need for concern about job losses, Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Monday adding that the country’s unemployment rate would come down below 3 per cent in the future. The current unemployment rate is 3.2 per cent. It came down from 6 per cent in the 2017-18 period and…
Paris: Red, white, and blue. And green. American tennis player Danielle Collins isn’t just getting support from her own country at the Paris Olympics. Irish fans have adopted her as one of their own, too. Collins started to realize the extent of her new fanbase when she was warming up before her first-round victory over…
Paris: India’s Harmeet Desai suffered a 0-4 loss against world no.5 Felix Lebrun of France in the second round of the men’s singles table tennis competition, ending his maiden Olympic campaign here on Sunday. The 31-year-old from Surat couldn’t settle into a rhythm to go down 8-11 8-11 6-11 8-11 against the 17-year-old local hopeful…
Paris: Star Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen’s victory over Kevin Cordon in the opening men’s singles Group L match won’t be counted as his Guatemalan opponent pulled out of the Paris Olympics due to a left elbow injury. “Guatemalan men’s singles player Kevin Cordon has withdrawn from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Badminton Competition due to…
Paris: Lena Von Schōnlaub used Eiffel Tower Stadium as a backdrop for her own personal photo shoot. Von Schōnlaub shifted her head from side to side, smiling big while she held her phone in front of her face and clicked over and over. Paris’ iconic Eiffel Tower hovered right behind her, overlooking the site where…
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a supplementary chargesheet in connection with its probe into the ‘Liquor Policy scam’ case naming Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the Rouse Avenue Court here, officials said on Monday. The officials said the chargesheet has been filed following an extensive probe into the alleged irregularities…
Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh government has renamed half a dozen welfare schemes, some of which were named after former chief minister and YSRCP supremo YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, with yesteryear stalwarts who championed education. As part of the new nomenclature, ‘Jagananna Amma Vodi’, a scheme which used to offer financial help to mothers educating their…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday in its order refused to stay the Patna High Court’s June 20 verdict setting aside the increase in reservation for Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/STs). The Patna High Court had earlier issued a verdict quashing the 65 per cent reservation cap set by the Bihar…
Tokyo: It is only Quad nations’ collaboration that can ensure that the Indo-Pacific remains free, open, stable and secure as the world grapples with the key question of upholding a rules-based order, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday, amidst growing concerns about China’s maritime coercion. In his opening statement at the Quad Foreign…
