NEW DELHI, OCT 15 : External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar reached Islamabad on Tuesday ahead of the 23rd Shanghai Corporation Organisation (SCO) Leaders Summit. This is the first time in nine years that an Indian External Affairs Minister has gone to Pakistan. Jaishankar was received at the Nur Khan airport by the Pakistan Foreign Ministry’s […]Continue Reading
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NEW DELHI, OCT 15 : Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar announced that the Maharashtra assembly elections will take place on November 20. Voters in Jharkhand will head to the polls in two phases, with elections set for November 13 and November 20. Counting for both assembly elections is scheduled for November 23. The term of […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, OCT 15 : Canada has made fresh allegations against the Indian government, accusing New Delhi of direct involvement in “serious criminal activity” on its soil. Though Ottawa did not, again, share any evidence behind its accusations, it alleged that Indian agents present in Canada are working with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang to target […]Continue Reading
CHENNAI, OCT 15 : Overnight rains lashed Chennai and nearby areas and the India Meteorological Department on Tuesday said the low pressure area is likely to turn well marked soon. While civic authorities said there has been no water stagnation in subways in view of preventive maintenance, water logging was seen in several places inconveniencing […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,OCT 14 : The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to three distinguished economists. The recipients are Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA, and James A. Robinson from the University of […]Continue Reading
MUMBAI, OCTO 12 : The 13 trusts, collectively known as Tata Trusts, on Friday elected Noel Naval Tata (67) as chairman with immediate effect, following the death of his half-brother Ratan Tata two days ago. The election was necessitated since Ratan Tata died on Wednesday night without a will on matters regarding the trusts that […]Continue Reading
MUMBAI, OCT 10 : Maharashtra cabinet on Thursday passed a resolution urging the central government to confer ‘Bharat Ratna’, the country’s highest civilian award, on legendary industrialist late Ratan Tata. The cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde paid homage to the industry icon, who died in a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday night. A […]Continue Reading
KOLKATA, 10 : The junior doctors, agitating over the rape and murder of their colleague at the RG Kar hospital, continued their fast unto death for the fifth day on Thursday amid the Durga Puja festivities across West Bengal. At 9.30 am, the fast by the nine junior doctors of various medical colleges entered its […]Continue Reading
KOLKATA,OCTO 9 : The mass resignation of senior doctors at different medical colleges and hospitals in West Bengal to express solidarity with their junior counterparts did not hamper healthcare services at these medical establishments, an official of the state health department claimed on Wednesday. Patient inflow at the out-patient department was considerably low due to Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,OCTO 9 : Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the party was analysing the “unexpected” results in Haryana and will apprise the Election Commission about complaints received from various constituencies of the state. In his first reaction after the shock defeat in Haryana, the former Congress president also thanked the people of Haryana […]Continue Reading
