New Delhi: State-owned NMDC has reported a 15 per cent rise in its iron ore production and a 3 per cent growth in sales of the mineral in April. In a statement on Sunday, NMDC said it produced 4 million tonnes (MnT) of iron ore in April, higher than 3.48 MnT in the same month…
New Delhi: India’s northeastern states — growing at between 11-12 per cent — present “tremendous opportunity” as launch pad for all of global South, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has said, underlining its historic and “fundamental” significance in the economies and trade networks of the entire South-East Asian region. Scindia, who is Minister for Development of…
New Delhi: Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal A P Singh on Sunday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi against the backdrop of increasing tensions between India and Pakistan over the Pahalgam terror attack. The Air chief held a meeting with PM Modi, sources said without giving further details. Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi…
Seventy-eight years of Independence, and here we are: still begging, bargaining, and brawling over caste-based reservations. You’d think after nearly eight decades, the nation would have moved from “upliftment” to empowerment. But no—the Congress, that grand old party of grander old ideas, is now flirting with the idea of 42% reservation for Backward Communities alone….
New Delhi: Six months ahead of his three-year tenure, the government has terminated the services of K V Subramanian as the executive director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), sources said on Saturday. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has terminated Subramanian’s services effective April 30, 2025, they added. The reasons for Subramanian’s exit have…
Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday said that Pakistan’s response was responsible and measured to India’s provocation following the Pahalgam terror attack. Sharif was talking to the Turkiye Ambassador Dr Irfan Neziroglu who met him in Islamabad, reported Radio Pakistan. The prime minister said, “Despite India’s provocative actions following the Pahalgam incident, Pakistan’s response…
Singapore: Singapore’s long-ruling People’s Action Party won another landslide in Saturday’s general elections, extending its 66-year unbroken rule in a huge boost for Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who took power a year ago. The Election Department announced the PAP won 82 Parliamentary seats after vote counting ended. The party had earlier won five seats uncontested,…
Bengaluru: Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni on Saturday took the blame on himself for his side’s narrow two-run loss against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their IPL match here, saying he should have “converted a couple of more shots to ease the pressure” when he was in the middle. CSK failed to score four runs…
Bengaluru: Ayush Mhatre nearly upended Romario Shepherd’s ferocious 14-ball fifty with a 94 of rare class, but Royal Challengers Bengaluru bowlers kept their nerves in the death overs to carve an out-of-the-woods two-run win over Chennai Super Kings and get closer to IPL playoffs here on Saturday. Once the RCB piled a massive 213 for…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday said that terrorism continues to be a scourge facing humanity, which should be condemned unequivocally in all its manifestations. The assertion came in her speech during a banquet hosted for her Angolan counterpart João Manuel Goncalves Lourenco, who is on his first state visit to India. President Murmu…
