NEW DELHI: One of the largest importers of wheat from Russia and Ukraine, Egypt has added India as a wheat supplier, Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday. The global markets have seen a huge downfall in the availability of wheat due to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, two major producers and suppliers […]
MUMBAI: Gujarat Titans on Thursday defeated Rajasthan Royals by 37 runs in match 24 of the Indian Premier League 2022 to reach the top of the table. This is Gujarat’s fourth victory in 5 matches. Batting first after losing the toss, Gujarat didn’t get off to a good start as the opener and wicketkeeper Matthew […]
NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka has sought India’s assistance in garnering international support to secure bridging finance as it negotiates a bailout package with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to mitigate the island nation’s worsening economic crisis, its embassy said. The issue of securing bridging finance as well as the IMF economic packet came up […]
NEW DELHI: A day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US was monitoring “human rights abuses” in India, External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar, in a sharp response, said India is also “equally entitled” to have views on the human rights situation in the US. At a joint press conference after the 2+2 […]
KYIV: More than 1000 Ukrainian soldiers including women surrendered before Russian forces in the southeastern port city of Mariupol in the besieged former Soviet state, Russia said on Wednesday. Out of the 1000 troops, 162 personnel are officers and 47 female service members, said Russian Defence Ministry Spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov, according to Russian news […]
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a case against textile and apparel manufacturer S. Kumars Nationwide Limited (SKNL) and its officials in a Rs 1,245 crore bank fraud case and carried out searches at 13 locations, it said on Wednesday. The company has manufacturing units in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas, Jhagadia Industrial Estate […]
NEW DELHI: Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Tuesday convened the first secretary-level meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Coordination Group (IMCG), a mechanism set up for mainstreaming India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy in line with PM Narendra Modi’s vision. Secretaries of ministries/departments of Home, Commerce, Finance, Fisheries, representatives from ministries/departments of Defence, Railways, Economic Affairs, Consumer […]
NEW DELHI: Another tranche of 11,000 metric tonnes of rice from India reached Sri Lanka, amid the Island nation’s economic catastrophe. The aid reaches at a time when Sri Lanka is expected to celebrate Sinhalese and Tamil New Year on April 13 and 14. Prior to this, 16,000 metric tonnes of rice was supplied by […]
RANCHI: The operation to rescue people stranded in cable cars on a ropeway at Trikut Parvat in Jharkhand’s Deoghar successfully concluded on Tuesday, two days after some of the cars collided with each other due to malfunction resulting in several deaths and injuries, Chief Minister Hemant Soren announced. At least three people were killed in separate […]
BUDGAM: Abhinavgupta, one of the most important philosophers and polymaths of India, wrote Tantraloka —an encyclopedia on Kashmir Shaivism in the 10th century. Known widely for non-dual awareness or consciousness, Abhinavgupta in his lifetime, wrote 35 books. His influence is so huge that his philosophy spread and flourished in south India as well. Legend has […]