Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina wraps up her India visit by paying obeisance at Ajmer Sharif
Sep 09, 2022, at 03:17 am
Ajmer/IBNS/UNI: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday wrapped up her four-day official visit to India by visiting Khwaja Gharib Nawaz Dargah Sharif in Rajasthan's Ajmer.
'Kartavya Path will put an end to colonial mindset, pave way for new India': PM Modi
Sep 09, 2022, at 02:12 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said with the unveiling of Kartavya Path (the revamped erstwhile Rajpath-a stretch of the redeveloped Central Vista from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate), India has freed itself from the "colonial mindset".
India, China start disengagement of troops from critical stand off point Gogra-Hot Springs in Ladakh
Sep 09, 2022, at 02:06 am
New Delhi: India and China have started withdrawing troops from Gogra-Hot Springs in Ladakh following a consensus reached in the 16th round of military talks, the two countries said in a joint statement this evening.
ASI performs ground-breaking ceremony to remove sand from Konarak's Sun temple
Sep 09, 2022, at 01:27 am
Bhubaneswar/UNI: The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI ) on Thursday performed the Bhumi Pujan, the ground-breaking ceremony, at Odisha's Konark to remove sand from the Jaganmohan (sanctum sanatorium) of the 13th century Sun temple, a world heritage monument.
PM Modi unveils Netaji statue at Kartavya Path
Sep 09, 2022, at 01:12 am
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday evening unveiled a statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate as he also inaugurated a stretch of the revamped Central Vista Avenue christened as Kartavya Path, which was the erstwhile Rajpath, the iconic venue of the Republic Day parade each year.
Will fight 2024 polls with Nitish, Hemant and Akhilesh: Mamata Banerjee
Sep 09, 2022, at 12:26 am
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday expressed solidarity with her Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar, who has recently launched a campaign against his former ally BJP, urging the opposition parties to come together to oust the Narendra Modi government at the Centre in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
India-Japan agree to step up military exercises
Sep 08, 2022, at 11:50 pm
Tokyo/UNI: Amid China's growing assertiveness, India and Japan Thursday agreed to increase the scope and complexities of their joint military exercises.
Digital Gujarat: QR code scanner to help pilgrims locate their little ones
Sep 08, 2022, at 10:38 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Moving ahead on the path of Digital India, Gujarat has started the Matrimilan project to help elders locate lost children with the help of a QR scan code.
Mamata Banerjee to skip Netaji statue event in Delhi; says she wasn't invited properly
Sep 08, 2022, at 10:28 pm
Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said she would not attend the unveiling of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's statue near the India Gate in Delhi as she wasn't given a proper invitation for the event, media reports said.
DRDO, Indian Army successfully test fire Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile
Sep 08, 2022, at 09:54 pm
New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Army have successfully completed six flight tests of the Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) system from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur off Odisha.
Dialogue & diplomacy way to address geopolitical conflicts, says Jaishankar at India-Japan 2+2
Sep 08, 2022, at 09:23 pm
Tokyo: Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Thursday said that "dialogue and diplomacy" were the way to address challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing geo-political conflicts.
Rahul Gandhi-led Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra begins
Sep 08, 2022, at 06:31 pm
Kanyakumari/UNI: Bharat Jodo Yatra -- the Congress' long march aimed at "uniting" the nation "amid growing divisive politics and practices" started from Kanyakumari on Thursday, with top leader Rahul Gandhi leading from the front.
Punjab govt clears salaries of employees after 6-day delay, AAP faces BJP ire
Sep 08, 2022, at 06:24 pm
Chandigarh/IBNS: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab Wednesday cleared the pending salaries of its employees six days after its due date following the staunch criticism from the Opposition, particularly the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), media reports said.
PM Modi to inaugurate Kartavya Path today
Sep 08, 2022, at 04:01 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will Thursday evening inaugurate Kartavya Path -- the newly-christened erstwhile Rajpath -- a stretch of national pride that is venue to the Republic Day parade each year.
PM Modi to unveil 28ft statue of Netaji in Delhi today
Sep 08, 2022, at 03:48 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil a grand 28-feet statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose near India Gate Thursday evening as Azad Hind Fauj's iconic song "Kadam Kadam Badhaye jaa" will play to mark the occasion.
Court rejects Indrani Mukerjea daughter's plea to stay with her mother
Sep 08, 2022, at 05:52 am
Mumbai/UNI: A special court here on Wednesday rejected the application by Vidhie Mukerjea, daughter of Indrani Mukerjea, the prime accused in the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora, seeking a court nod to permitting her to stay with her mother when she comes to India from the UK.
Bengaluru flood forces billionaires to leave homes on boats as posh localities pass out
Sep 08, 2022, at 04:41 am
Bengaluru/IBNS: As cities across India struggle to cope with flooding, submergence and water stagnation during the monsoon owing to unchecked urbanisation, the country's IT capital Bengaluru has joined the urban sprawl. So much so that the city's billionaires are being rescued on boats.
PM Modi, his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina pledge to bring down border killings to zero
Sep 08, 2022, at 02:23 am
New Delhi/UNI: The incidents of border killing have decreased significantly -- that has made two top leaders of India and Bangladesh satisfied, claimed a joint statement that was issued on Wednesday following a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina
Kashmir: Two militants of radical outfit AGuH killed in Anantnag gunfight
Sep 08, 2022, at 01:29 am
Srinagar/UNI: Security forces shot dead two militants of radical Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH) in a brief gunfight in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police said.
Drugs worth Rs 9.5 crore seized in Mizoram
Sep 08, 2022, at 12:06 am
Aizawl: Following a specific lead, Aizawl District Special Branch of Mizoram police on Tuesday evening conducted an operation and seized 3,80,000 tablets of suspected Methamphetamine worth Rs 9.5 crore in International Market, concealed and packed in 38 polythene bags each containing 10,000 tablets from the possession of a Myanmarese national identified as Laldika (52 years old).
Large number of arms-ammu, explosives recovered along Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border
Sep 08, 2022, at 12:04 am
Guwahati: In a joint operation police and Indian Army on Wednesday recovered a large number of arms, ammunition, grenades, explosives in Assam's Sonitpur district along Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.
Cabinet approves a new centrally sponsored Scheme - PM SHRI Schools
Sep 07, 2022, at 11:13 pm
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved a new centrally sponsored scheme - PM SHRI Schools (PM ScHools for Rising India).
India means opportunities: Piyush Goyal tells Stanford students
Sep 07, 2022, at 11:02 pm
New Delhi: Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles, Piyush Goyal today said that ‘India’ meant ‘opportunities’ and added that this is not just India’s decade, it is India’s century.
India sent 4 lakh metric tonnes of wheat to Bangladesh, announces Kwatra
Sep 07, 2022, at 08:40 pm
New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra on Tuesday said India has sent four lakh metric tonnes of wheat to Bangladesh.
Sep 07, 2022, at 08:34 pm
New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 'Kartavya Path' on Sept 8 at 7 PM.
Delhi govt extends blanket ban on firecrackers till Jan 1
Sep 07, 2022, at 08:32 pm
New Delhi: The Delhi government has extended a blanket ban on production, storage, sale and use of firecrackers till Jan 1 next year in the national capital.
Supreme Court to decide on Shiv Sena election symbol on Sep 27
Sep 07, 2022, at 07:17 pm
New Delhi/UNI: The Supreme Court Wednesday said that it will consider on Sept 27 whether the Election Commission should proceed to decide which faction of the Shiv Sena should have the claim to the "bow and arrow" election symbol.
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina meets Indian VP Dhankar
Sep 07, 2022, at 07:12 pm
New Delhi: Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, who is currently on a four-day visit to India, met Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar here on Tuesday.
Kanpur: IIT student commits suicide
Sep 07, 2022, at 06:54 pm
Kanpur: A PhD student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here committed suicide, police sources said on Wednesday.
Sep 07, 2022, at 06:37 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday urged Indian industrialists to invest in her country, saying Dhaka had the most liberal ecosystem for investment in infrastructure, manufacturing, energy and transport sectors.