India
NEW DELHI: Flights were cancelled, trains were late and road traffic over the weekend was slow as the national capital was engulfed in thick fog that blinded it for up to 12 hours from Friday night to Saturday. the morning. This occurred in a context of cold and polluted climate. The Met has issued a…
NEW DELHI: A few days before the Delhi assembly elections are to be announced, and amid a blitzkrieg unleashed against the ruling AAP, the BJP finally released its much-awaited first list of candidates on Saturday. It has 29 names, including four sitting legislators, two former MPs and eight former MLAs.The biggest names on the first…
NEW DELHI: India has slightly increased its vigilance following reports of rising cases of respiratory diseases in china even as it has asked the World Health Organization to share timely updates on the situation in China.According to the Health Ministry, a meeting of the Joint Monitoring Group was held on Saturday under the chairmanship of…
MUMBAI: Bank of Baroda reported provisional figures as of December 31, 2024, showing substantial growth in retail lending, helping the bank achieve an 11.7% year-on-year rise in global business to Rs 25.6 lakh crore.The bank’s global advances rose 11.7% to Rs 11.7 lakh crore in December 2024, while global deposits grew 11.8% to around Rs…
NEW DELHI: Veteran Indian nuclear scientist dr Rajagopala Chidambaramwho was the architect of ‘Operation Laughing Buddha‘ (India’s first nuclear test at Pokhran in 1974) and ‘Operation Shakti‘ (1998 nuclear tests), died on Saturday in Mumbai at the age of 88. Born in the erstwhile province of Madras in 1936, Chidambaram, an alumnus of Presidency College,…
NEW DELHI: A court in Nanded in central Maharashtra on Saturday acquitted the nine surviving accused in a 2006 blast case, with a defense lawyer claiming the prosecution had failed to prove the incident was a bomb blast. .The detailed ruling has not yet been published. Of the 12 defendants in the case, two died…
NEW DELHI: Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Saturday reacted sharply to criticism over a luxury ‘vanity van’ parked near his protest venue at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan. Kishor, who is on indefinite leave hunger strike demanding justice for the students affected by the alleged Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC), dismissed the issue as a…
New Delhi: India on Friday responded to comments made by US Ambassador Eric Garcetti, emphasizing that India values its “strategic autonomy” and disagrees with the envoy’s perspective. Garcetti, while speaking at an event in Delhi on July 11, suggested that “strategic autonomy” has limitations in times of conflict and highlighted the need for countries like…
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Saturday arrested a 23-year-old individual who allegedly scammed over 700 women after making connections on dating platforms posing as a US-based model. The Western District Cyber Police Station arrested Tushar Bisht for exploiting platforms like Bumble and Snapchat to dupe victims, coerce them using personal images and recordings and demanding…
NEW DELHI: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sending a ceremonial ‘chadar’ to the Ajmer Sharif Dargah. Owaisi questioned the sincerity of the gesture, calling it a contradiction in light of the ongoing petitions and disputes against mosques and dargahs across the country. Referring to the Prime Minister’s law,…