Mumbai: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday said reservation in jobs and education for disadvantaged groups was introduced to address social discrimination and will remain in place as long as inequity existed, but beneficiaries who had progressed should mull foregoing further benefits so others could avail of the opportunities. He insisted reservation is for upliftment…
New Delhi: India and Singapore on Thursday reviewed the progress of bilateral cooperation across the eight key areas outlined by the Roadmap for the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) between the two countries. The 19th round of India-Singapore Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) was held in New Delhi, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. The Indian…
Online Tech Desk The medium-range ballistic missile Agni-4 was successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Odisha, on Thursday (August 6, 2026), with the launch validating all operational and technical parameters. The test was carried out under the aegis of the Strategic Forces Command (SFC), the Ministry of Defence said in a statement….
Mumbai: Mumbai Police have busted an international cyber fraud racket with links to Dubai and arrested 12 persons from a villa in Goa for allegedly duping people across the country through fake online gaming platforms, an official said on Thursday. The accused allegedly operated fraudulent online gaming and betting websites, including ‘Rudra’ and ‘100 Panel’,…
Hyderabad: Telangana IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu on Thursday inaugurated the Global Capability Centre of JLL Business Services. JBS is the integrated operations delivery platform of global commercial real estate and investment management company JLL. The GCC is expected to create over 1,600 high-skilled jobs, he said. “The new GCC, which will create…
New Delhi: The government is questioning the visiting Meta team on whether the company is following the law of the land, following summons to the social media giant over the temporary restriction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Facebook post recently, sources said on Thursday. The government and the Meta global team are currently engaged in…
Colombo: Their home Test run in the recent past may not have been particularly impressive but India head coach Gautam Gambhir has asserted that his team will be ready with all the answers when the two-Test series against Sri Lanka gets underway here from August 15. In a short address to the team before a…
Panaji: Former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal on Thursday said he would move the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court’s judgment convicting him in a 2013 sexual assault case, asserting that the order was “wrong”. In a major setback to Tejpal, the Bombay High Court’s Goa bench convicted him for raping a colleague in 2013,…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked petitioners, including a doctors’ association, to file their replies to the Centre’s affidavit, which said that the migration of the NEET (UG) examination from the pen-and-paper mode to a computer-based mode on the pattern of JEE (Mains and Advanced), is under active consideration. A bench of Justices…
New Delhi: BJP leaders, including Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and state president Harsh Malhotra, paid tributes to former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on her death anniversary on Thursday, recalling her contributions to the city and the country. The party leaders also planted saplings at the Delhi BJP office and Vasant Udyan in the…
