London: Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s visit to India this week will lead to significant advances across shared areas of interest such as AI and emerging technologies, UK Minister for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Online Safety Kanishka Narayan said on Tuesday. Speaking to PTI ahead of Starmer’s first official tour of India, scheduled for October 8-9,…
New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday rejected West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s allegation of “discrimination” over flood management and river cleaning, asserting that India is already working closely with Bhutan on trans-border river issues and has released more than Rs 1,290 crore to the state under flood management programmes. A day after torrential rain…
The Nobel season has begun. On Monday, the medicine prize opened the 2025 awards with scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi honoured for their discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance. The prizes for physics, chemistry, literature and economics will follow soon. And then comes the big one still to be announced – the Nobel…
As the Election Commission of India has announced the poll dates for Bihar as Nov 4 and 7, while counting will be on Nov 14, the state is once again bracing for a political showdown. The NDA and the India Alliance are loudly staking claims, but a new entrant, poll strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishore, is emerging…
Silguri/New Delhi: A political confrontation erupted on Monday between the Centre and the state government after two BJP leaders were assaulted in landslide-hit north Bengal, with PM Narendra Modi slamming the TMC over law and order, and CM Mamata Banerjee accusing him of “politicising a natural disaster”. A day after torrential rains triggered landslides and…
New Delhi: Trade calculations are being overturned by “tariff volatility” globally, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday, against the backdrop of economic disruptions triggered by Washington’s policy on trade tariffs. In an address at an event, Jaishankar delved into the “strategic consequences” of profound changes being witnessed in the geopolitical landscape, including the…
New York: President Donald Trump on Monday announced that his administration will impose 25 per cent tariffs on all medium and heavy-duty trucks coming into the US from other countries beginning next month. Trump, in a post on his social media platform Truth Social, said, “Beginning November 1st, 2025, all Medium and Heavy Duty Trucks…
New Delhi: Leaders of opposition parties condemned an attack on Chief Justice of India (CJI) B R Gavai on Monday, saying it is an assault on the Constitution and it shows how hate and fanaticism have engulfed society. The Congress, CPI, CPI(M), NCP-SP, Shiv Sena (UBT), DMK, and other parties were unanimous in condemning the…
India witnessed an unprecedented and disgraceful moment inside its highest court this week. A lawyer reportedly attempted to hurl a shoe at Chief Justice of India, B.R. Gavai—while shouting “Sanatan ka apmaan nahi sahenge.” Never before in the history of independent India has such contempt been shown to the head of the judiciary within the…
Guruva Reddy Dharam India’s most beloved sport now faces a constitutional question in Telangana. When institutions that govern cricket defy the very laws that give them legitimacy, it ceases to be a sporting issue — it becomes a matter of justice. And given the prolonged violations by the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) and the inertia…
