NEW DELHI: India has given Rs 3,250-crore credit for the defence to Vietnam as the two nations forge a relationship to strengthen ties in the Asia-Pacific region that may also control China’s imminent threat, a year after the QUAD summit was held between other nations. The announcement on the line of credit was made by […]
The three months long Ukraine war has brought some interesting and important conclusions about modern-day warfare and the requirements for an adequate defence. India is the most threatened country in the world, having two nuclear-armed neighbors – one who wages a low-intensity terror war on us, while the other is prone to periodic grabbing […]
The GST is finally coming up the curve; the rates are getting stabilised and the systems by and large streamlined. GST collection is doing more than expected in recent months with the collection reaching an all-time high of Rs. 1.68 lakh crores in April 2022. At the outset, both indirect and direct tax collections have […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress MPs and CWC members will hold a march from the party headquarters to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office when former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will appear for questioning in connection with the National Herald money laundering case on June 13. The party will also hold Satyagrah at the ED offices in […]
NEW DELHI: Delhi development minister Gopal Rai inaugurated a 500 KW power plant at Kheda Dabur Gaushala in Nazafgarh on Wednesday and announced to develop it as a model cowshed in the national capital. The government will install a solar power plant and a biogas plant at the cowshed, known as Hare Krishna Gaushala. […]
LUCKNOW: Eight candidates including deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya filed their nomination papers for the ensuing legislative council elections here on Thursday. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath, deputy CM Brijesh Pathak, and state BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh accompanied the candidates during the process. Apart from Maurya who lost the Assembly elections to Samajwadi Party’s […]
There are three questions about the Nupur-Naveen incident that are making rounds: 1. Were the Middle East and OIC response a result of a nudge by the USA? 2. Could New Delhi have responded in a better fashion? 3. Is there a bigger picture there somewhere? Let us try to address them one by one. […]
Marathi actress Ketaki Chitale was arrested on May 14, 2022, by Thane Police, Maharashtra for a post shared on Facebook. The post was a poem in the style of an “Abhang”(traditional Maharashtrian hymn) about a corrupt 80-year-old man, “Pawara”, with missing teeth and saliva dribbling all the time, jealous of Brahmins and destined to […]
KOCHI (KERALA): India aims to double the exports of marine products to Rs 1 lakh crore, Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday as he called upon fishermen, traders and exporters to help the country transform into a seafood processing hub. “This target will be achieved through sustainable fishing, ensuring quality and variety, promotion […]
DUSHANBE (TAJIKISTAN): On an official visit to Tajikistan, Union Jalshakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Monday met Indian students at Avicenna Tajik State Medical University in the capital Dushanbe. During his interaction, Shekhawat gave details of Amrit Mahotsav of Independence to the medical students and said that the future of India depends on their performance. […]