- India
Gadkari bats for public transport, says road traffic generates 40% air pollution
Mumbai: Making a strong case for improving and promoting the use of public transport, Union Minister for Highways Nitin Gadkari said that road transport alone is responsible for 40 percent of the…
- India
Mohan Bhagwat to address gathering of 10K swayamsevaks in Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad: The Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Mohan Bhagwat, is set to visit Gujarat for two days on April 14 and 15. The RSS chief is scheduled to address a…
- Bangalore
Dissidence in Karnataka BJP will end soon, says Bommai
Dakshina Kannada: Senior BJP leaders are talking with the dissatisfied leaders and dissidence will end soon, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Thursday. He told reporters here that with the second…
- India
Would rather beg to common people than Centre for funds: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said that she would rather beg to the common people rather than to the Union government for funds to carry out development projects…
- World
Amid layoffs, tech firms continue to exploit H-1B visa programme: Study
New York: Amid massive ongoing layoffs in the tech sector, the top 30 H-1B visa employers hired 34,000 new workers in 2022 and laid off at least 85,000 workers in 2022 and…
- India
‘Different India’ now capable of meeting security challenges: Jaishankar
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday said that forces troubling India for long are now aware that this is a “different India”, which is capable of giving them a…
- India
After Nitish, Sharad Pawar to meet Kharge, Rahul
New Delhi: After Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, NCP chief Sharad Pawar will be meeting Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi to take the cause of opposition unity forward.…
- Pakistan
Pakistan: Imran’s security chief arrested on ‘money-laundering’ charges
Islamabad: Pakistans Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has confirmed arresting Iftikhar Rasool Ghumman, who is the security in-charge of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, in a “money-laundering case”, media reports said on…
- India
Delhi: Girl alleges gang-rape two years after incident
New Delhi: A 19-year-old teenager has lodged a complaint that she was gang-raped by two men in South Delhi’s Begumpur area, an official said on Thursday, adding that the incident occurred two…
- Bollywood
3 action directors come together for Salman-SRK action sequence in ‘Tiger 3’
Mumbai: Three action directors from across the world Franz Spilhaus, Parvez Shaikh and Se-yeong Oh are conceptualising the action sequence featuring Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan in ‘Tiger 3’. The makers…
- India
Maulana Azad’s erasure from NCERT books due to his Muslim identity: NCP
Mumbai: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attempting to ‘erase’ the name of India’s first Education Minister and Bharat Ratna, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad,…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP: No conspiracy in 2018 knife attack on Jagan, NIA tells court
Vijayawada: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) told a special court here on Thursday that there was no conspiracy behind the knife attack on Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy at…
- India
Akhilesh terms encounter of Atiq’s son fake, slams BJP
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday accused the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh of carrying out a ‘fake encounter’ to eliminate the son of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his…
- India
Nitish meets Yechury, other Left leaders amid Oppn unity talks
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, CPI leader D. Raja and other leaders here on Thursday amid talks of opposition unity. Nitish Kumar is on…
- Technology
Top Chinese company to replace copywriters, designers with ChatGPT-like tech
Beijing: China-based marketing and public relations agency BlueFocus will replace third-party copywriters, designers, and short-term contractors to fully embrace generative AI like ChatGPT, the media reported on Thursday. Ranked 11th among global…
