NEW DELHI: In another big step towards inking the Rafale deal, India has issued the Letter of Request (LoR) to France to finalise the mega defence agreement worth around Rs 3.25 lakh crore for 114 Rafale fighter jets for the IAF.“The Letter of Request was issued last week by the acquisition wing of the defence…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Tuesday firmly rejected speculation over the induction of former Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders into the BJP, asserting that the party would not admit “tainted” individuals and that “trinamoolisation of BJP would never happen.”Emphasising that the BJP’s rise in West Bengal had been driven by grassroots workers…
Foreign nationals coming to India will now have to complete their registration before the expiry of 180 days from their arrival in the country if they wish to extend their stay, according to an official Gazette notification issued by the ministry of home affairs (MHA) on Monday.Taking a stricter approach to delayed registrations, the notification…
NEW DELHI: Former Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president K Annamalai met party national president Nitin Nabin and general secretary BL Santosh in New Delhi on Tuesday.The meeting comes amid speculations that Annamalai is planning to leave the BJP and launch a new political party, though not immediately. According to sources, Annamalai has been…
NEW DELHI: India and US have finalised most elements of the legal text of the first tranche of the bilateral trade agreement, with negotiations now focused on “commas and full stops”, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said Monday, but the treaty, in the works for 15 months, will only be sealed after there is…
NEW DELHI: The law ministry on Monday notified the appointment of five judges for Supreme Court, taking the strength of the apex court to 37, including the Chief Justice of India. The five new judges who will assume charges after taking oath on Tuesday are senior advocate Venkita Subramani Mohana, and four high court chief…
NEW DELHI: Education ministry told a parliamentary committee on Monday that “many hands and many cities” present many chances to leak question papers in pen-and-paper exams, while Computer-Based Test (CBT) takes out this “weakest link” and will serve as the foundation for computer-adaptive testing (CAT) along the lines of CRE and GMAT. In a presentation…
NEW DELHI: In a landmark ruling, Delhi HC has recognised the “right to be forgotten” as an “integral facet” of the right to privacy, saying individuals cannot be condemned to suffer harm to their reputation merely because information about them remains indefinitely available in the digital domain.HC said search engines such as Google cannot be…
NEW DELHI: Amid India’s efforts to diversify its oil supplies, Venezuela’s acting President, Delcy Rodriguez, is likely to visit New Delhi this week, according to official sources. Rodriguez was earlier supposed to visit India for the International Big Cat Alliance meeting, but the event was deferred.While talking about the US initiative to sell more energy…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to grant urgent hearing to a PIL seeking computer-based test (CBT) for the June 21 re-examination of NEET-UG, which was held nationwide on May 3 but was scrapped following allegations of paper leak.A partial-working day bench of Justices P S Narasimha and Aravind Kumar told the petitioner, RJD…