NEW DELHI: Govt will go ahead with the Galathea Bay port project in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and work is expected to start in 2028, Union shipping and port minister Sarbananda Sonowal said Tuesday. This comes amid increased criticism of the project by Congress.Sonowal said he has spoken to island dwellers. They are keen on…
111 Identified As ‘Most Vulnerable’ Due To Low Irrigation Footprint New Delhi: Amid a deficit of nearly 43% in monsoon rainfall this month, the Centre reviewed the situation Tuesday and set up an El Nino Monitoring Cell and a Crop Weather Watch Group for real-time tracking of preparedness, contingency measures and ongoing sowing operations in…
New Delhi: Eight months after his arrest on the charge of conspiracy in the case related to the unnatural death of Assam’s iconic singer, Zubeen Garg, in Singapore, accused Shyamkanu Mahanta’s plea seeking bail was entertained Tuesday by Supreme Court, which sought the state govt’s response, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.Mahanta, in his petition, gave a detailed…
New Delhi: Noting that they are a flight risk, the Delhi HC has stayed a trial court order that allowed two Chinese nationals to visit their country.Both are facing prosecution in an alleged Rs 20,000 crore money laundering case linked with Vivo Mobile and were named by the ED in its chargesheet.The agency challenged the…
NEW DELHI: Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah Tuesday directed Nafed and National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation to procure “every single grain” of pulses and oilseeds directly from farmers “with complete transparency, eliminating the entire network of middlemen,” and ensure that income reaches farmers’ bank accounts within 48 hours.“This will ensure fair and remunerative prices…
New Delhi: Supreme Court Tuesday stayed a Delhi HC order releasing Rashid Khan, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the March 1993 blast in Kolkata that killed 69 and injured more than 100 people just four days after underworld-triggered serial bomb blasts in Mumbai killed 257 and injured over 700 as retaliation for the…
New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi met NSAs and senior security officials from BRICS nations on Tuesday, highlighting the group’s enhanced role in tackling today’s global security challenges.During the interaction, PM Modi said BRICS is a key platform for strengthening security cooperation at a time of rapid global change. He called on member nations — Brazil,…
New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi Tuesday advised new IAS trainees to regularly assess whether policies are effectively translating into outcomes on ground while emphasising the need to keep citizens at centre of governance.Interacting with 183 officer trainees from the IAS-2024 batch, currently serving as assistant secretaries across various ministries and departments, PM said that every…
NEW DELHI: Delhi girl Devina Gahlot, 17, from DPS Vasant Kunj, with 100 percentile in three (economics, political science and psychology) of her five subjects and an aggregate of 1232.19, is this year’s CUET-UG topper. The second topper, Saksham Goel, with an aggregate of 1230.82, too is from Delhi, while Udit Chaturvedi (1207.21), ranked third,…
NEW DELHI: George Kurian’s resignation as minister of state for minority affairs and PM Modi calling on the President re-ignited the buzz about the likelihood of a ministerial reshuffle before monsoon session of Parliament, slated for the second half of July. Kurian’s resignation, which had been on the cards since the lapse of his Rajya…