Thiruvananthapuram: He may have helped the country conquer the moon, is making a similar attempt for the Sun and is busy preparing sending Indians to the space–all multi-crore rupee ventures, but ISRO chairman S Somanath’s humble beginnings included an old bicycle and a modest lodging to cut transport and hostel expenses while in college. These little…
New Delhi: An SBI research report has praised the Modi government’s micro-credit scheme for street vendors for ensuring “inclusive entrepreneurship” and said nearly 75 percent of its beneficiaries come from the non-general category with the OBCs accounting for 44 percent. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes account for 22 percent of the total disbursement of…
New Delhi: Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday said the National Informatics Centre (NIC) will extend “full cooperation” to the Parliament’s Ethics Committee in the investigation of charges levelled by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey against TMC’s Mahua Moitra. Sharing a copy of Vaishnaw’s letter on X, Dubey said it is the beginning of a ‘dharma…
United Nations: India has said it will treat a reference by Pakistan to Kashmir during a Security Council meeting on the Israel-Gaza situation with the contempt it deserves and will not dignify it with a response. The remarks by India’s Deputy Permanent Representative at the UN, Ambassador R Ravindra, came on Tuesday after Pakistan’s UN…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called upon people to finish off forces trying to divide the country with casteism and regionalism, saying Dussehra should also mark the burning of ideologies which are not about India’s development but about fulfilling selfish interests. Addressing a huge gathering at a Dussehra event here, he said…
New Delhi: The ability of judges to use the Constitution and judicial platforms for dialogues and deliberations is key to a stable society as in many societies across the world, the rule of law has given way to the rule of violence, Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud said. He was speaking at the…
New Delhi: The Moon may be at least 4.46 billion years old, according to a study that pushes back the age of the lunar body by 40 million years. Over four billion years ago, when the Solar System was still young and the Earth was still growing, a giant object of the size of Mars…
New Delhi: India, the world’s fifth largest economy in the world, is likely to overtake Japan to become the world’s third-largest economy with a GDP of USD 7.3 trillion by 2030, S&P Global Market Intelligence said in its latest issue of PMI. After two years of rapid economic growth in 2021 and 2022, the Indian economy…
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday celebrated Dussehra with Army soldiers at a forward base in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang. The defence minister also performed “Shastra Puja” (worship of weapons) on the occasion, officials said. Singh’s celebration of Dussehra with the soldiers at the strategically important location close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC)…
Nagpur: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday asked if extremists across the border were involved in Manipur violence. “For many years, Meitei and Kuki communities have been living together. How did the violence erupt all of a sudden? The conflict benefits external forces. Are external factors involved,” Bhagwat said, while addressing the RSS Dussehra rally in…
