SRINAGAR: The Resistance Front, an off-shoot of terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba, has threatened to spill blood as it issued a threat to the forthcoming Shri Amarnath Yatra. In a letter released on Sunday, TRF said that the fascist regime is pumping RSS Sanghis into the valley in the name of pilgrimage. “They (government) are going to […]
TOKYO: Prime Minister Narendra Modi appreciated SoftBank Corporation’s significant contribution, especially in the startup sector in India during a meeting with its founder and CEO Masayoshi Son on Monday in Tokyo. PM Modi and Son also discussed SoftBank’s future participation in India in key areas such as technology, energy and finance. The 65-year-old business magnet’s […]
COLOMBO: India once again came to the rescue of crisis-hit Sri Lanka as it handed over aid worth 2 billion in Sri Lankan rupees. Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay handed over a large consignment of humanitarian assistance which included 9,000 metric tonnes (MT) of rice, 50 MT of milk powder and […]
TOKYO: Prime Minister Narendra Modi gets his ‘Tokyo business’ going with back-to-back meetings with Japanese industry leaders on Monday. In his meeting with NEC chairman Nobuhiro Endo, PM Modi discussed the company’s role in India’s telecommunications sector. “The Prime Minister appreciated NEC’s role in India’s telecommunication sector, especially in undertaking Chennai-Andaman & Nicobar Islands […]
NEW DELHI: A workaholic he is, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Tokyo itinerary will be a choc-a-bloc with him seizing every opportunity that the Quad Leaders’ Summit provides. Apart from meeting the three world leaders – US President Joseph Biden, Japanese PM Fumio Kishida and newly-elected Australian PM Anthony Albanese – PM Modi will also meet […]
The conventional thinking among the Indian population, those that are aware of the behemoth named CPEC, is that it is China’s way of encircling India by debt-trapping Pakistan into a project that Pakistan does not have the financial capacity to absorb. And they would be partially correct in assuming so. An infrastructural project of that […]
BENGALURU: BCCI on Sunday announced the T20 squad for the five-match series at home against South Africa at home. Senior cricketers such as Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah have been rested. Umran Malik, who enthralled everyone with his supersonic pace in the IPL 2022, and Punjab Kings pacer Arshdeep Singh have received […]
NEW DELHI: Union minister of commerce and industry Piyush Goyal will lead a high-level delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland from May 23 to 25 as India marks 35 years of collaboration with the Forum. The Indian delegation will include the Union minister of health and family welfare, chemicals and fertilizers, Dr […]
NEW DELHI: From touring the country as a backpacker in 1991 to leading a parliamentary delegation in 2018, Australia’s Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is no stranger to India. Albanese led the Labor Party to its first electoral victory in nearly a decade beating incumbent Scott Morrison in a closely contested electoral battle. According to […]
NEW DELHI: In a big relief to consumers, the Modi government on Saturday announced a sharp cut in central excise duty on fuel prices, bringing down the price of petrol by Rs 9.5 per litre and diesel by Rs 7. The Central government has slashed the excise duty on petrol by Rs 8 per […]