Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday launched Bharat Taxi service and the Mukhyamantri Krishak Samriddhi Yojana, under which small and marginal farmers will get long-term loans at a reduced interest rate of six per cent. Bharat Taxi, the country’s first cooperative-led ride-hailing platform, is operated by Sahakar Taxi Cooperative Limited (STCL). Bharat…
The industrial atmosphere at the recently concluded bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026 hummed with a heavy mix of diesel exhaust, hot asphalt, and fresh machinery paint. It served as the perfect backdrop for Volvo Construction Equipment to completely rewrite the rulebook of modern infrastructure, while eager crowds ducked past aggressive dust devils kicked up elsewhere in…
New Delhi: Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had flagged multiple issues, including deletion of names, in various states during the voter roll cleanup but the poll body was unanimous in its decisions related to the pan-India Special Intensive Revision of voters’ list, officials said on Wednesday. The officials made the remarks in…
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, during his bilateral meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha on the margins of the high-level UN General Assembly session, discussed recent developments in the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and put forth India’s view that dialogue and diplomacy is the way forward for a peaceful resolution of…
United Nations: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit Canada around December this year, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said, underlining that Ottawa is making “good progress” in its trade negotiations with India. Carney made these remarks while responding to a question on when Prime Minister Modi will visit Canada and how close…
Nagoya: India secured its sixth shooting medal at the Asian Games as the women’s skeet team comprising Raiza Dhillon, Maheshwari Chauhan and Parinaaz Dhaliwal won a bronze with a combined score of 331 here on Wednesday. The skeet event has each shooter trying to get the maximum of 125 allocated points. Parinaaz and Raiza both…
Vinay Rao It is an Under-19 match on a Hyderabad ground. A lean eighteen-year-old runs in and bowls his best ball. The batsman facing him is a grown man: broad-shouldered, heavy-forearmed, with a full beard. He is twenty-three. He swats the ball over midwicket without effort. Then he does it again. By the end of…
Wellington: New Zealand picked seven frontline pace bowlers, including a fit-again Adam Milne for their upcoming five-match T20 International series against reigning World Champions India starting October 22 in Christchurch. White-ball captain Mitchell Santner will lead an expanded 16-man T20I squad for the action-packed five-game series spread across 11 days in four cities. According to…
New Delhi: With the BRICS Summit concluding with the New Delhi Declaration, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has outlined three priorities going forward, including continued cooperation among the members of the bloc, a long-term agenda it hopes China will also engage with when it takes over the BRICS presidency, and greater sharing of best…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said he has asked Secondary Education Minister Gulab Devi to write to the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), so that an arrangement can be made after a certain period and protesting students can appear in competitive examinations. Speaking at an appointment-letter-distribution programme organised by the…
