- India
Mamata to attend NITI Aayog meet to ‘register protest’
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee confirmed on Friday that she would participate in the central think-tank NITI Aayog meeting scheduled on July 27 in Delhi, clearing the air over the…
- India
Delhi HC dismisses PIL challenging Centre declaring June 25 as ‘Samvidhan Hatya Diwas’
New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a PIL challenging the Centre’s decision to declare June 25, the day the Emergency was imposed in 1975, as ‘Samvidhan Hatya Diwas’. The petitioner…
- India
Rahul Gandhi appears in UP court in defamation case, next hearing on Aug 12
Sultanpur: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appeared before the MP-MLA court here on Friday for a hearing in a defamation case. The court fixed August 12 as the next date of hearing in…
- India
Kargil win a victory of 1.40 crore Indians, says PM Modi
Drass: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that the Kargil War win is neither the victory of any government in power nor of any political group, it is the heritage and…
- Sports
Expect women boxers to do better than before in Paris Olympics: Vijender
New Delhi: India’s boxing medal hopes at the Paris Games will hinge on how its women pugilists perform, feels the country’s lone Olympic medal-winning male boxer Vijender Singh, who expects the Nikhat…
- India
Thane woman held for using forged papers to get Pakistani visa
Thane: Police have arrested a 24-year-old woman from Maharashtra’s Thane for allegedly forging documents to secure a Pakistani visa and visit the neighbouring country, an official said on Friday. Sanam Khan, also…
- Business
Rupee recovers from all-time low, rises 9 paise in early trade
Mumbai: The rupee recovered from its all-time low level and appreciated 9 paise to 83.69 against the US dollar in early trade on Friday, amid a positive trend in domestic equities. Forex…
- Business
Markets rebound in early trade after five days of slump
Mumbai: Equity market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded in early trade on Friday after staying on the back foot for the past five straight sessions, helped by value buying at lower…
- India
Rahul to appear before MP-MLA court in UP in defamation case
Sultanpur: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to appear before the MP-MLA court here on Friday for a hearing in a defamation case. Congress district president Abhishek Singh Rana said on Thursday…
- India
Ban lifted on govt staffers joining RSS: Took centre 5 decades, says MP HC
Indore: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has said that it took the Centre nearly five decades to realise that an “internationally renowned” organisation like Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was wrongly placed on the…
- Middle East
White House describes sexist and racist attacks on Harris as ‘disgusting’
Washington: The White House on Thursday described as “disgusting” the increasing sexist and racist attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris which has intensified after she became the presumptive presidential nominee of the…
- World
Impact of Gaza War on IMEC corridor too soon to know: White House
Washington: The impact of the Gaza war on the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), an ambitious initiative of US President Joe Biden, that creates an economic corridor from India to Europe via…
- India
Bihar Appropriation Bill passed in assembly by voice vote
Patna: The Bihar Appropriation Bill, 2024 was passed in the state assembly on Thursday, clearing the deck for expenditure of Rs 47,512 crore from the treasury for the 2024-25 fiscal. The bill,…
- India
Karnataka landslide: TN CM announces cash relief to families of deceased lorry drivers
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday expressed anguish over the death of two lorry drivers from the state who were killed in a landslide and flood in Karnataka…
- Kashmir
Ghulam Nabi Azad calls for strong measures to curb terrorism in Jammu region
Jammu: Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad expressed concerns on Thursday over the resurgence of terrorism in the Jammu region and demanded strong measures to curb the menace. Azad…
