New Delhi: China’s mega dam being built near the Arunachal Pradesh border will be a ticking “water bomb”, an existential threat and a bigger issue than anything else apart from the military threat, the state’s Chief Minister Pema Khandu has said. In an interview to PTI Videos on Tuesday, Khandu said the world’s largest dam…
Churu: A Jaguar trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Bhanoda village in Rajasthan’s Churu district on Wednesday afternoon, killing both pilots onboard. The crash occurred around 12:40 pm during a routine training mission. The aircraft went down in an agricultural field, and no damage to civilian property has been reported. Rajaldesar…
Vadodara: Nine persons were killed and five others rescued after several vehicles fell into a river when the portion of a four-decade-old bridge collapsed in Gujarat’s Vadodara district on Wednesday morning, officials said. Five to six vehicles fell into the Mahisagar river after a slab of the Gambhira bridge, located on the river which connects…
Windhoek (Namibia): India seeks to boost bilateral cooperation with Namibia, which is a “valued and trusted partner” in Africa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday as he arrived here on the final leg of his five-nation visit. This is the first visit of Prime Minister Modi to Namibia and the third-ever Prime Ministerial visit…
Patna/Arwal/Jehnabad/Darbhaga (Bihar): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday led a Mahagathbandhan march to the Election Commission’s office in Patna to protest the ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls before the Bihar assembly polls. The leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, who arrived in the state capital in the morning, was accompanied by…
Brasilia: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday left for Namibia after concluding his two-day visit to Brazil, where he attended the 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro and held talks with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on various issues, including trade and terrorism. “A memorable visit to Brazil concludes with a successful 17th…
Meerut (UP): Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday said farmers in India are now moving towards mobile-based crop monitoring and gaining access to global markets with the help of technology. He said the government aims to transform farmers not just into producers but into entrepreneurs. Speaking at the inauguration of the Centre for Agricultural…
New Delhi: Possible convergence of interest among China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh may result in serious implications for India’s stability and security dynamics, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan said on Tuesday. In an address at a think-tank, Gen Chauhan, delving into the May 7-10 military conflict between India and Pakistan, said it was perhaps…
One victim’s frustrating journey through the legal maze after cyber fraud (This is a continuation of the cyber fraud article published in these columns last week. Here, the victim recounts his distressing journey of trying to reclaim his stolen money. — Editor) MS Shanker When he (Radhakrishna, name changed) first discovered that he had been…
It was a Sunday morning. I felt like holding my son Pragyan in my lap, and we both should read an interesting story from the newspaper, so that he could enjoy the sweetness of words even in the modern screen age. But to our regret, we found that there was not a single story, comic…
