New Delhi: India on Friday announced that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to Pakistan to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in mid-October. It will be for the first time in nearly nine years that India’s external affairs minister will travel to Pakistan even as the ties between the two…
Chandigarh: The fate of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Vinesh Phogat of the Congress besides JJP’s Dushyant Chautala and 1027 other candidates will be decided on Saturday as elections to the 90-member Haryana assembly will be held with over 2 crore people eligible to vote. The ruling BJP is eyeing a…
Bhubaneshwar: The office of former Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said no political issue was discussed when he met Odisha Governor Raghubar Das a week ago at the Raj Bhavan here amid speculation that the former Jharkhand chief minister is interested to return to active politics. Naidu and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma…
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said at least 50 per cent of the country’s total defence production should come through the participation of the private sector. Addressing an event by the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM) here, he said the Russia-Ukraine war proved that the importance of a defence industrial base…
Panjim: A moment of National Pride at India Star Awards 2024 (initiated by Government of India). Cheers Group achieved historic triumph with its five Single-malt brands winning National awards, a feat unmatched by any other single malt whisky company world over. Finding a “smooth” single-malt whisky is actually kind of hard these days. With the…
Hyderabad: The City Police’s SHE Teams have earned widespread commendation for their proactive efforts in ensuring the safety of women during the 11-day Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations. Operating in densely populated areas such as Khairatabad Bada Ganesh, SHE Teams intensified their surveillance to curb harassment and indecent behavior. According to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cybercrimes),…
Beirut: Israel’s military said Thursday it had hit Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in the Lebanese capital Beirut, as troops battled militants near the border and warplanes bombarded their strongholds around the country. US news site Axios cited three unidentified Israeli officials naming the target of the attack as Hashem Safieddine, a potential successor as Hezbollah chief to…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday constituted an independent special investigation team to conduct probe into allegations of use of animal fat in making Tirupati laddus. The special investigation team (SIT) will comprise two officials each from the CBI and the Andhra Pradesh Police besides a senior FSSAI official. The bench said the probe…
Islamabad: Pakistan’s authorities sealed off the capital Islamabad on Friday to foil a planned protest by the Tehreek-i-Insaf of former premier Imran Khan to show solidarity with the judiciary and increase pressure to release the former prime minister from the jail. The call for protest was given by a 71-year-old cricketer-turned-politician who has been incarcerated…
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said India would achieve near doubling of per capita income in the next five years and witness the steepest rise in living standard of the common man in coming decades aided by structural reforms undertaken by the government in the last 10 years. Addressing the 3rd edition…
