NEW DELHI: In a bid to shield highway builders in view of a nearly 71% spike in bulk diesel price in the last three months, govt will compensate them for the excess expenditure they incur on projects.The increase in prices of bulk diesel and bitumen has impacted finances of highway firms since the West Asia…
NEW DELHI: No one, not even govt, can prevent a citizen from approaching courts under a mutually agreed contract, or as part of a one-time settlement (OTS) scheme, Supreme Court has said while censuring Haryana govt for asking those who had opted for an OTS scheme offering 40% discount on land dues to withdraw their…
PM Modi received Slovakia’s highest civilian honour, the Order of the White Double Cross (1st Class), from Slovak President Peter Pellegrini (ANI) NEW DELHI: India and Slovakia upgraded their bilateral relationship to a comprehensive partnership — exploring ways to expand cooperation in areas like defence and security, AI, space and civil nuclear energy — as…
Congress general secretary KC Venugopal (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Stoking the growing public chatter over merger of breakaway outfits with Congress, the AICC has expressed its readiness to accept its erstwhile members into the party fold.AICC general secretary (organisation) and Rahul Gandhi confidant K C Venugopal told TOI, “Everybody who believes in the Congress ideology…
NEW DELHI: The country Narendra Modi flew into on Sunday is one of European Union’s more restless members — a Nato state whose prime minister has courted Vladimir Putin, balked at arming Ukraine and kept a wary eye on Washington’s tariffs. That Modi chose this moment to visit Slovakia, becoming the first Indian prime minister…
MUMBAI: When Air India flight AI 171 crashed into the B J Medical College hostel in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025, it killed 241 of the 242 people aboard and 19 more on the ground, among them were four medical students having lunch in their hostel mess. Though all the 260 people killed were victims…
Dancing Girl” in NCERT’s class 6 Social Science textbook (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: In a swift move, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) decided to restore the original version of the iconic “Dancing Girl” of Mohenjo-daro in its new class IX textbook with immediate effect on the digital books available online as well…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Monday sought responses from Centre and Punjab govt to a PIL alleging that the AAP-governed state has failed to implement the constitutional guarantee of free and compulsory education to every child from economically weaker and marginalised sections of society.Though RTE and RTI were among the main planks on which AAP…
NEW DELHI: India’s two oldest water dispute tribunals — 40-year-old Ravi and Beas, and 22-year-old Krishna water disputes tribunals — have got an extension of one more year till Aug 5, 2027 and July 31, 2027, respectively, as both of them have, so far been unable to resolve the vexed issue despite long years and…
NEW DELHI: BJP Monday lashed out at former Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot for stating that Indira Gandhi would have banned the governing party for its religious politics, saying that his remarks are more a reflection on the authoritarian impulses of Congress than itself.“Had a leader like Indira Gandhi been in power today, she would have…