NEW DELHI: India and the US remained locked in a tense stand-off over attacks on vessels in Gulf of Oman, with US signalling no relief for Indian mariners caught in the crossfire of the US-Iran conflict.After having twice summoned the American envoy over US military strikes on foreign-flagged ships carrying Indian mariners, India further escalated…
NEW DELHI: A high-level committee on demographic changes, constituted recently under Justice (retd) Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar, will visit metropolitan areas and industrial towns, apart from border areas, as part of its assignment to examine the nature, causes and impact of demographic changes across the country, including due to illegal immigration. It will recommend policy, administrative…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the French city of Nice on Saturday, beginning a busy Europe tour that includes visits to France and Slovakia, followed by participation in the G7 Summit. The trip will focus on key diplomatic meetings, technology partnerships, trade discussions and strengthening India’s ties with…
NEW DELHI: A bowling-themed birthday cake that had delighted three-year-old Reyaansh from Thane during a family celebration May 31 turned into a nightmare when the toddler unknowingly swallowed two metal wires hidden inside decorative cake toppers. The following day, which was his actual birthday, the family found itself in hospital instead of celebrating after scans…
For Yogi Adityanath, law and order was never merely governance. It has always been central to his political image. The imagery of a saffron-clad monk governing India’s most populous state with an iron administrative grip has remained one of the defining motifs of contemporary Uttar Pradesh politics.The “Bulldozer Baba” image, once used derisively by the…
Union coal minister G Kishan Reddy NEW DELHI: Union coal minister G Kishan Reddy has written to Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy, seeking an inquiry into reports of 40 lakh tonne of coal worth about Rs 1,600 crore missing from Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL).In his letter, the coal minister said the allegations could…
NEW DELHI: Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA Baby on Saturday raised strong objections over Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s remarks at the recent INDIA bloc meeting of opposition parties on June 8, saying that “nobody is asking Rahul Gandhi to hug Pinarayi Vijayan” and all that the Left party was asking for was…
NEW DELHI: At the G7 summit next week, India will not only speak for itself, but it will also give voice to the aspirations of the Global South, said PM Narendra Modi ahead of his departure to France where he will participate in the summit and also have bilateral engagements with French President Emmanual Macron….
NEW DELHI: Congress has slammed US secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statement on the US strike on a commercial vessel in the Gulf of Oman that killed three Indian crew members.In a post on X, Cong MP Shashi Tharoor said, “Deeply shocking to read this official US statement, which contains absolutely no expression of regret…
NEW DELHI: The recent deaths of three Indians on a US-sanctioned ship after a US navy strike and attacks on two more vessels that had Indian sailors on board have brought to light how seafarers are rarely aware about the status of such sanctioned or “dark ships”.A veteran sailor said that in the current dynamic…