India’s permanent contribution to agenda of world community is of enormous importance for us: Guterres

United Nations: India’s permanent contribution to the agenda of the international community and that of the UN is of “enormous importance for us”, the UN chief has said, as he pointed to a “positive mega trend” of the increasingly enhanced roles of developing economies like India in the world. These remarks were made by Secretary…

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PM to lay stone of north India’s first semiconductor unit, open Namo Bharat corridor in UP next week

Lucknow:  Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of north India’s first semiconductor manufacturing unit in Gautam Buddh Nagar and inaugurate the Namo Bharat rapid rail corridor along with the Meerut Metro next week, marking major milestones in the state’s infrastructure push. Speaking in…

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HCA’s Moment of Truth

By Vinay Rao Hyderabad cricket is no stranger to turbulence. But what it faces today is not routine turbulence. It is an institutional credibility test. The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), already battered by allegations of corruption, nepotism, administrative paralysis and internal factionalism, now stands at a defining crossroads. And the central question before it is…

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Israel Trip Triggers Congress Meltdown

There is something almost poetic about the Congress party’s latest outrage. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to Israel on February 25 has sent sections of the “grand old party” into a predictable fit of moral panic. One would think the Prime Minister was planning to relocate Seva Path (new address from South Block) to…

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B’desh no longer a ‘submissive country’: Yunus in farewell address

Dhaka: Outgoing interim government chief Muhammad Yunus on Monday said his 18-month rule restored three core pillars of Bangladesh’s external engagement – “sovereignty, national interests, and dignity”, and it is no longer a “submissive” nation. In his farewell address to the nation, Yunus said that at the end of his regime’s rule, “Today’s Bangladesh is…

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates Missile Integration facility at BEL

Bengaluru: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday visited Bharat Electronics Ltd here and inaugurated the Missile Integration facility at the premises, officials said. He also flagged off the Akash 3rd and 4th Regiment Combat systems and unveiled the Mountain Fire Control Radar, they said. Singh also remotely inaugurated the Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence…

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