Nagoya: India’s track and field contingent went on a rampage, collecting 18 medals, including five gold, to propel India to fifth in the overall standings, with sprinter Simran, high-jumper Praveen Kumar and shot-putter Sachin Khilari also creating new Games records in their events. Apart from Simran (women’s 100m T12), Praveen (men’s high jump T44/64) and…
Jamnagar (Gujarat): Almost the entire Ambani family, led by billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani, welcomed the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at Jamnagar on Wednesday, as he began a tour of the world’s largest single-site refinery. Rubio arrived in Jamnagar a day after calling India a crude-refining “superpower” and urging more processing of Venezuelan crude…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that narcotics threaten future generations and provide financial support to organisations involved in anti-national activities, as he asked police forces across the country to ensure the drug menace is eliminated by the end of 2029. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a deadline of December…
Kolkata: Only followers of “Sanatan Dharma” would be allowed to touch Durga idols during immersion in Kolkata, Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Wednesday, adding that it was not a communal matter but one of religion. The chief minister was reviewing immersion arrangements at Babughat in Kolkata, accompanied by city police commissioner Ajay Kumar…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has transferred another case registered against Cockroach Janta Party leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka to the Crime Branch, sources said. The Crime Branch will now investigate two cases against the CJP leaders. The other case linked to Das and Ranka allegedly entering the Jantar Mantar area was transferred to the…
New Delhi: The Jio Platforms’ IPO saw the portion marked for Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs) fully subscribed at over 2x demand, within a few minutes of the issue opening on Wednesday, according to sources. The QIB portion’s demand was 2.86 times at 10 AM, sources said. Institutions moved within minutes of bidding opening on Wednesday…
Washington: The US and India are “pretty close” to making a trade deal, which will be much different than the earlier pacts, US President Donald Trump said here. Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump said India and the US were pretty close to making a trade deal. “They want to make…
Shrikant Rao For decades, the heavy machinery world ran on an unspoken rule: highway trucks stayed in their division, earthmovers stayed in theirs, and fleet software lived in an entirely separate engineering bucket. If you ran a mining operation, you dealt with this fragmentation daily. You bought haulers from the truck team, excavators from the…
A cockroach that flies in from Germany, delivers a lecture on Indian democracy and constitutional institutions, and then reportedly leaves the country is hardly the messiah of Indian democracy he imagines himself to be. Dhruv Rathee may have opinions to offer, but why should Bharat take lectures on its constitutional functioning from someone whose own…
Every festival we celebrate carries a deeper meaning that goes beyond its external rituals and customary observances. While we celebrate these occasions with great fervour and devotion, it is equally important to understand their inner significance. Festivals are objective representations of a subjective phenomenon, reminding us that the real transformation must take place within us….
