File photo: Brics leaders during a joint tree plantation initiative amid the 18th BRICS Summit, at the Bharat Mandapam, in New Delhi. NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs has rejected social media posts claiming that multiple world leaders fell sick after attending the Brics summit in New Delhi, warning against “malicious posts” circulating online.The…
NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah backed Centre’s decision to introduce 0.4 percent merchant discount rate on UPI payments above Rs 2,000, saying that “running a UPI system” is not cheap.While talking to reporters, Omar said that people don’t appreciate what they “get for free.”“Not everyone is charged. First of all, person-to-person…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi turns 76. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 76 on Thursday, with President Droupadi Murmu, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Union ministers and other BJP leaders extending birthday greetings to him and highlighting his tenure in public service and governance.President Droupadi Murmu, in a post on X, said Modi…
Union MoS Jitendra Singh speaks during the launch of the Special Campaign 6 Monitoring portal to track the implementation of the campaign aimed at institutionalising Swachhata and reducing pendency across government offices, in New Delhi. (Photo: ANI) NEW DELHI: Launching the dedicated web-portal for the sixth edition of govt’s ‘special campaign’ to declutter govt offices,…
Steady stream of pleas in SC NEW DELHI: Unhappy with a Jodhpur labour court award, a health worker from Jalore district, Rajasthan, engaged on a daily wage basis and whose services were terminated in 1999 had moved Rajasthan HC in 2004.The petition is yet to be heard, 22 years later.With pendency in HCs crossing the…
Researchers analysed data from about 5,00,000 UK Biobank participants and examined 23 biological aging clocks NEW DELHI: Sleeping too little, or even too much, may be linked to faster biological aging and a higher risk of death, according to a large study of nearly 5 lakh adults aged 37 to 84 years. People sleeping less…
After petitioning SC on Aug 25 raising questions about the judgement, govt has now asked CAT to modify its Aug 19 order NEW DELHI: Centre has begun to disentangle itself from the seemingly contradictory positions it has taken before Supreme Court and Central Administrative Tribunal on the implementation of the March 11 Rohit Nathan judgement…
2 terrorists killed in J&K (Representative image) NEW DELHI: Security forces launched a major search operation in the Majalta area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district on Thursday following inputs about the suspicious movement of some individuals, officials said.A joint team of the Indian Army, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Special Operations…
Jarange said it was not possible to continue a rally tour while observing an indefinite hunger strike. NEW DELHI: Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange Patil on Thursday called off his 20-day-old hunger strike and gave the Maharashtra government three months to consider his demands, news agency PTI reported.The decision came after Jarange addressed a large…
FIR Slapped On Missionary Org NEW DELHI: CBI has filed an FIR and launched a probe into an illegal funding network operated by US-based Christian missionary organisation, The Timothy Initiative, and its Indian leadership for allegedly using foreign funds to the tune of over 92 crore between Nov 2025 to April 2026 for missionary activities…