On the occasion of International MSME Day, Uttar Pradesh chief ministerYogi Adityanath on Friday inaugurated the ‘Youth adda’ and launched a mobile application ‘CM Yuva’ in an effort to promote entrepreneurship in the state and help the youth with employment. The UP CM congratulated the small and big entrepreneurs of the state and more than…
NEW DELHI: The Parliamentary Committee on Transport has summoned Civil Aviation Secretary Samir Kumar Sinha and officials from Boeing to appear before it over safety concerns.The summons come two weeks after the deadly air crash in Ahmedabad, which claimed the lives of 241 of the 242 present on board. ‘Data extraction from black boxes underway’…
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah NEW DELHI: Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Friday rejected his state minister KN Rajanna’s claims over the possibility of major political shift within the state government and said that there is no internal dispute. While talking to the reporters at the Vidhan Soudha in Karnataka, Siddaramaiah suggested to ignore Rajanna’s statements. “There…
NEW DELHI: Uddhav and Raj Thackeray, once estranged cousins vying over Bal Thackeray’s legacy, are now uniting in opposition to the imposition of Hindi in Maharashtra’s schools. In a post on X, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut announced that Thackeray’s brothers will jointly lead a protest march on July 5 against the imposition of…
NEW DELHI: “The one lesson that Emergency taught us is to never take freedom for granted,” external affairs minister S Jaishankar declared on Friday while criticising the Congress party for its imposition in 1975.Addressing a Mock Parliament event organised by the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) to commemorate its 50th anniversary, Jaishankar referenced the movie…
US President Donald Trump has hinted at a significant trade deal with India. After signing a new agreement with China, Trump said a “very big” trade deal with India could be on the cards. Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz confirmed that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was marked for assassination during the recent 12-day…
NEW DELHI: India on Thursday strongly condemned the demolition of Durga temple in Khilkhet, Dhaka, expressing deep concerns over the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government’s handling of the incident and accusing it of siding with extremist elements.Addressing a press briefing, ministry of external affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “We understand that extremists were clamouring for the…
NEW DELHI: The Axiom-4 mission holds major significance for India’s ‘Gaganyaan’ programme as the experience gained by Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla during his trip to the International Space Station will help Isro fine-tune India’s first human spaceflight mission, slated for early 2027.Though the four astronaut-designates for Gaganyaan – group captains Shukla, Prasanth Nair,…
DEHRADUN: Close to 60 men from Nepal have in recent days been rescued from months-long captivity by teams comprising officials in India, staff from the Nepal embassy and NGO workers after the youth – many of them minors – were trafficked into UP, Uttarakhand and Bihar by shady job networks. Those in the know say…
MYSURU/BENGALURU: A tigress and her four cubs were found dead on Thursday in Hoogyam forest range of Karnataka’s Male Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, in what officials called the state’s worst single-day tiger death toll at a single location. Preliminary suspicion: poisoning.Forest officials said that the tigress had killed a cow days earlier. Poison is believed…
