CHENNAI: The Greater Chennai Police collected a cumulative penalty of more than 1.35 lakh from delivery partners of app-based food and grocery enterprises in 978 cases of traffic rules violation in a single day earlier this week, it said. The police took action against the delivery personnel of popular food aggregators like Zomato, Swiggy, and […]
NEW DELHI: Hundreds of people on Friday joined a protest demonstration organised by several groups of Kashmiri Pandits at Jantar Mantar here and demanded the government of India recognise the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus, take measures to punish the perpetrators, and move away from tokenism. The demonstrators demanded the government to officially recognise that Kashmiri […]
NEW DELHI: A verbal exchange between External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar and his British counterpart, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss here on Thursday highlighted the difference of stance between New Delhi and London regarding sanctions on Russia over the invasion of Ukraine. Sharing the stage with EAM Dr Jaishankar at an event here, visiting Foreign […]
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing war with Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will arrive in New Delhi for a two-day visit to India starting on Thursday, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced. This will be the first visit of any high-level Russian leadership since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and the […]
SRINAGAR: Thirty-two years after the killing of Kashmiri Pandit Satish Tickoo, a city-based court on Wednesday started hearing his family’s plea seeking a report on the progress of the investigation against former JKLF terrorist Bitta Karate in the murder case. Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bitta Karate had shot dead Tickoo, a businessman, outside his residence […]
NEW DELHI: Stressing that the Ukraine war has added to challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Tuesday called upon members of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) to deepen and broaden cooperation within the group. Speaking at the BIMSTEC Ministerial meeting in […]
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday filed a charge sheet against six people for their involvement in attempts to revive the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in India and Sri Lanka. The accused entered into a criminal conspiracy to revive the LTTE by committing forgery for cheating besides using forged documents […]
NEW DELHI: Mexico Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón will arrive in New Delhi on Wednesday on his maiden three-day visit to India to take stock of progress in bilateral ties. He will also visit Mumbai, the External Affairs Ministry (MEA) said. The Mexican foreign minister and External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar will undertake a comprehensive […]
NEW DELHI: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has postponed his visit to India after contracting Covid-19 infection, Israel’s mission to India confirmed to The New Indian. PM Bennett was scheduled to arrive in New Delhi on April 3 for a three-day visit. “The postponement of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s visit to India due to Covid-19 […]
RAIPUR: An arrest warrant has been issued against Chhattisgarh Revenue Secretary Neelam Namdev Ekka by the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) in connection with an alleged land grabbing case related to a firm of the Dainik Bhaskar Group in Janjgir-Champa district. ‘DB Power Limited’ of the DB Group allegedly cheated farmers belonging to the […]