New Delhi, 12/7: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will be on a week-long visit to Indonesia and Thailand beginning Wednesday for meetings, including with counterparts of the ASEAN and BIMSTEC groupings. During his visit to Indonesia, Jaishankar will meet his counterparts under the ASEAN framework in the format – ASEAN-India, East Asia Summit and ASEAN…
Chennai, 11/7:Dismissing Opposition’s accusation that the law and order situation in Tamil Nadu has deteriorated, Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday said he was “very much” satisfied with the performance of the police department but stressed that the “next one year” was very crucial, in an apparent reference to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls….
Kolkata, 11/7: According to the latest declarations by the State Election Commission, the TMC has won in 12,518 gram panchayat seats and is leading in 3,620 seats. Its nearest rival BJP has won in 2,781 seats and is leading in 915 seats out of 63,229 seats as of 3.30pm. The Left Front has won in…
Kyiv, 11/7:NATO allies should agree to remove the requirement of a Membership Action Plan (MAP) for Ukraine to become a member of the alliance in the future, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday. Ukraine has come a long way since we made the decision in 2008 that the next step would be a Membership…
New Delhi, 11/7: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of Leena Paulose, wife of alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, in a Rs 200 crore extortion case. Besides Paulose, Justice D K Sharma also rejected the bail pleas of accused Kamlesh Kothari and B Mohan Raj in the case. Paulose had…
Mumbai, 11/7: Vedanta fell over 2 per cent on Tuesday, a day after Taiwan’s Foxconn said it withdrew from a $19.5 billion semiconductor joint venture with the metals-to-oil conglomerate. The companies partnered last year to set up semiconductor and display production plants in Gujarat. Concerns about incentive approval delays by India’s government had contributed to…
UP, 10/7: Apparently eyeing a clean sweep in the Jat-dominated western Uttar Pradesh region in the next Lok Sabha polls due next year, the BJP has extended an olive branch to the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), a predominantly Jat outfit having considerable influence in the region, asking president Jayant Chaudhary to join the saffron party….
Canada, 10/7:Lakshya Sen beat reigning All England Champion Li Shi Feng to win the Canada Open final in straight games 21-18, 22-20 at Calgary on Sunday night. This is his first BWF World Tour title of the year and the first since India Open last year. Sen was trailing by four points in the…
Kashmir, 10/7: Asking the Congress to thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi for fulfilling the grand old party’s “promise” of abrogating Article 370, Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Monday said that grassroots-level democracy has flourished for the first time in Jammu and Kashmir. When Syama Prasad Mookerjee suggested in the Constituent Assembly that there should be…
New Delhi, 10/7: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain an appeal challenging the Delhi High Court verdict dismissing a PIL against the RBI notification permitting exchange of Rs 2,000 currency notes without any requisition slip and ID proof, saying it is an executive policy decision. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud…
