New Delhi: With the India-New Zealand free trade agreement set to be effective on October 20, the Commerce Ministry on Monday laid out a procedure to allocate concessional duty-based quotas for imports of apples, kiwifruit, and Manuka honey from the island nation. Under the pact, India is providing Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQs) in a calibrated…
Mumbai: None of the three accused held in the Tiger Shroff shooting case is a minor, Mumbai Police said on Monday, adding that two assailants had fired five to six rounds at the actor’s car. Addressing a press conference here, DCP Raj Tilak Roshan said one of the accused is 18 years old, and the…
New Delhi: Gold rods weighing 3.2 kg and worth approximately Rs 4.03 crore were seized from an Indian passenger arriving from Dubai at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, a statement said on Monday. The passenger, who arrived on October 19, was intercepted by Customs officers based on spot profiling, an official statement said. A detailed…
Chandigarh: Eight workers were killed, and 12 others sustained injuries after a car ran over them on Lehragaga-Jakhal road in Punjab’s Sangrur district on Sunday, police said. The incident occurred near Alisher village when a group of more than 20 workers enrolled under Viksit Bharat Guarantee Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Gramin (VB-G RAM G) —…
Shillong: Satellite imagery and geographic information system (GIS) technology have helped identify over 3.4 lakh hectares of cultivable wasteland in Meghalaya, accounting for 15.2 per cent of the state’s geographical area, according to a study. The study, published in the Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International earlier this month, estimated that 3,40,673.36 hectares…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has said strict action would be taken against those responsible for firing at Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff in Mumbai and assured full support to the ongoing investigation. Police have formed 15 teams to nab the assailants, an official said. The 36-year-old actor escaped unhurt after gunmen opened fire at his car…
The world needs no lecture on democracy from a superpower that increasingly treats other nations’ sovereignty as negotiable, international law as optional and economic sanctions as instruments of political coercion. If there is one country whose conduct deserves relentless scrutiny, it is the United States under Donald Trump. From Europe to Bharat, political discontent, public…
Online Sports Desk Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma on Sunday (October 18) broke the world record for the 50-plus partnerships, for any wicket, in a calendar year in Women’s T20Is. Their 96-run stand against Zimbabwe in the second T20I at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium, Raipur, was their ninth in 2026, breaking the…
Online Sports Desk Pakistan batter Babar Azam achieved a major milestone in his international career on Sunday, October 18, as he became the fifth Pakistani cricketer to complete 16,000 runs across all three formats. The right-handed batter reached the landmark during Pakistan’s opening match against Sri Lanka in the ongoing ODI tri-series at the Rawalpindi…
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned that a future US president could be hostile towards Israel, calling for new alliances with countries such as India and those in Latin America to strengthen his country’s position. Netanyahu made the remarks during an event at which he presented his security doctrine, nine days before…
