The government on Monday addressed concerns related to India’s energy supplies amid the tightening situation in the Strait of Hormuz and reiterated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to all citizens to reduce their consumption of petrol and diesel. At an inter-ministerial meeting, Sujata Sharma, joint secretary for ministry of petroleum & natural gas, said, “I…
NEW DELHI: Lieutenant General Rajesh Sethi has assumed charge as the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Delhi Area, one of the Indian Army‘s most visible yet least understood appointments. While the post is often seen through its prominent role in national ceremonies, it also carries significant administrative and operational responsibilities in the country’s capital.Commissioned into…
Vance said the US had observed both encouraging and concerning signals from Tehran but stressed that any agreement would require “real concessions” from the Iranian side US Vice President JD Vance has described Iran’s public denials of ongoing negotiations with Washington as a “Persian negotiating tactic”, while insisting the United States remains in a position…
Kerala’s Sabarimala Temple (File photo) New Delhi: Midway through the ‘faith vs fundamental right’ debate emanating from the customary ban on entry of women in the 10-50 years age group into the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple, a Hindu party on Tuesday requested a nine-judge Supreme Court bench to review its 30-year-old judgment declaring Hinduism as a…
NEW DELHI: Monday’s mayhem during the ‘Sandad Chalo’ march witnessed “strange inaction” from the police during the “golden hour”, according to several officers.Although the agitation had been announced well in advance, and both Intelligence Bureau and Delhi Police’s intelligence wing had provided precise, actionable inputs regarding a massive build-up of demonstrators, the command centre remained…
The Alliance, India’s brainchild, was established in 2024 with the aim of conserving seven big cats NEW DELHI: Bangladesh on Wednesday joined the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) as its new member, taking the total count of member countries of this treaty-based global entity to 27.The Alliance, India’s brainchild, was established in 2024 with the…
INDIA bloc leaders (File photo) NEW DELHI: The opposition INDIA bloc is set to hold a meeting in the national capital on Monday, marking its first formal gathering in several months.The meeting comes in the wake of recent assembly elections in four states and the Union territory of Puducherry, results that dealt a setback to…
No country has fallen as fast as the Albion in recent memory. In two decades, the UK has gone from being mocked for going along with George Bush’s WMD hoax to a point where no one cares about its opinion anymore. A small island whose entrepreneurs sailed the globe to sell opium and torture natives…
The Centre has completed the implementation of the four new labour codes by notifying the corresponding rules, more than five years after the reforms were first introduced to replace and consolidate 29 existing labour laws, PTI reported.The four codes — the Code on Wages, 2019; Industrial Relations Code, 2020; Code on Social Security, 2020; and…
Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday slammed the Supreme Court judgment on SIR for not mentioning a clutch of “major flaws and contradictions” in EC’s process that, it said, has “deprived crores of citizens” of voting rights. It said the judicial challenge by political parties and civil society pertained to flaws on…