New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that the Nataraja statue installed at Bharat Mandapam, the convention centre which will host key G20 summit meetings, will stand as a testament to India’s age-old artistry and traditions. He was responding on X to the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts’s post about the…
New Delhi: The Cabinet on Wednesday approved additional allocation of Rs 1,164.53 crore for an industrial development scheme 2017 for Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The additional fund was required to meet the committed liabilities under the scheme up to 2028-29. Under this scheme, the total financial outlay was Rs 131.90 crore, Union Minister Anurag Thakur told…
Pyeongchang (South Korea): The Indian men’s table tennis team signed off with a bronze medal after going down 0-3 to Chinese Taipei in the Asian Championships semifinal here on Wednesday. In a disappointing display, both veteran Sharath Kamal and the experienced G Sathiyan surrendered meekly to their higher-ranked opponents while Harmeet Desai showed the stomach for…
Melbourne: Pat Cummins, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc and Glenn Maxwell were all included in Australia’s 15-member provisional squad despite injuries while bowling all-rounder Sean Abbott earned his maiden World Cup call-up. Cummins and Smith are nursing wrist injuries they picked up during the Ashes, while Starc and Maxwell are out with a groin problem and…
New Delhi: Special Protection Group (SPG) Director Arun Kumar Sinha died in a Gurgaon hospital on Wednesday. He was 61. A 1987 batch Kerala cadre IPS officer, Sinha was granted a one-year extension in service on May 31. He was appointed SPG chief in March 2016.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear during the day a plea by the Editors Guild of India seeking protection from coercive action in two FIRs lodged in Manipur against some of its members. The matter was mentioned for urgent listing before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud….
Rampur (UP): An FIR was registered here against DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s son Priyank Kharge for allegedly outraging religious feelings, police said on Wednesday. Stalin was booked for his call to eradicate Sanatan Dharma and Kharge for backing his remark, they said. The two were booked under sections 295 A…
Even before the Opposition’s Indian National Democratic Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A.) bloc could come to grips with its own contradictions Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s shrewd move for a resolution in the special Parliament session from September 18 to 22, can be perceived as the real master stroke. Though the Opposition and the Lutyens media may claim…
New Delhi: Opposition parties of the I.N.D.I.A. alliance on Tuesday demanded that the government maintain transparency and not keep the country in the dark on the agenda of the special session of Parliament from September 18 to 22, even as they called for early passage of the women’s reservation bill. Sources said former Congress chief…
United Nations: India has told the UN Security Council that blocking evidence-based proposals for blacklisting globally sanctioned terrorists without giving justifications is uncalled for and “smacks of doublespeak”, a thinly-veiled reference to China and Pakistan. “The working methods of the UNSC Sanctions Committees continue to dent the credibility of the UN Security Council,” India’s Permanent Representative…
