India’s impressive advancements in space exploration and satellite tech, together with Italy’s aerospace engineering excellence, offer significant opportunities for joint initiatives and next-gen technology development. The relationship between India and Italy has now reached a decisive stage. In recent years, our ties have expanded with unprecedented momentum, evolving from a cordial friendship into a special…
NEW DELHI: CBI has arrested a colonel posted with the Army Ordnance Corps and a private individual in connection with an alleged bribery case. The accused officer, posted under the Eastern Command in Kolkata, is accused of favouring a Kanpur-based firm by allegedly manipulating the process of awarding tenders, approving substandard samples, and clearing inflated…
NAGPUR: An undertrial prisoner cannot be deprived of the right to education merely because of incarceration, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court has ruled, directing prison authorities to allow a 69-year-old inmate lodged in Nagpur Central Prison to appear for his LLB examination without charging escort fees. Purushottam Kumar Sinha had approached HC…
LUDHIANA: Punjabi singer Yashinder Kaur aka Inder Kaur, 29, was found murdered in Ludhiana Tuesday, six days after she was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint, reports Payal Dhawan. The suspect is an alleged ‘suitor’ who lives in Canada and is believed to have come to India via Nepal to kill her and flown back on May…
NEW DELHI: Temperatures topped 46 degrees C at several places on a torrid Tuesday, the season’s hottest day in Delhi, with the punishing prospect of a weeklong spell of broiling heat in store. The met department has sounded orange alerts for heatwave conditions across the city till May 25, reports Kushagra Dixit. The mercury crossed…
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Usman Jutt was a man on a mission – till vanity got in the way. He successfully infiltrated into India from Pakistan with the objective of establishing a sleeper cell, but put that on hold while he checked into a medical clinic in Srinagar for a hair transplant. Nor is Jutt the…
KOLKATA: TMC’s Falta candidate Jahangir Khan announced Tuesday he would not contest the May 21 repoll in Bengal’s only assembly seat where EC ordered a fresh vote over electoral malpractice, coinciding with CM Suvendu Adhikari’s roadshow through the constituency and his appeal to voters to hand BJP victory by a margin of “at least 1…
NEW DELHI: Mamata Banerjee said the BJP-led Central government would be “removed from power” in the future, days after her party, TMC, suffered a major defeat in the West Bengal Assembly elections.During a meeting with party MLAs in Kalighat, the former West Bengal CM said, “BJP will be removed from power in Delhi in the…
NEW DELHI: “Building the nation, not just highways” — the tagline for the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) — was coined by then road transport and highways minister Major General (Retd.) Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri, who led the transformative highway development programmes of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) and the North-South and East-West Corridors during the…
NEW DELHI: Oil marketing companies Tuesday hiked petrol and diesel prices by nearly 90 paise per litre, effecting a second revision in less than a week, as their losses mount due to a surge in global crude oil rates, reports Atul Mathur. Petrol now costs Rs 98.64 per litre in Delhi, while diesel is priced…