Muizzu congratulates Modi on becoming second-longest serving PM of India NEW DELHI: Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu rolled out the red carpet and praised PM Narendra Modi, marking a significant turnaround in relations over the last two years. “Tonight we are delighted to reciprocate that friendship and goodwill in the spirit of the close ties between…
NEW DELHI: Flight-trials of an advanced precision guided missile launched from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), which can be fired in plain and high-altitude areas during day and night, have been successfully conducted by DRDO.The UAV-launched precision guided missile or ULPGM-V3, which is an enhanced version of the ULPGM-V2 missile developed and delivered by DRDO…
NEW DELHI: The ED on Friday said it has attached assets worth over Rs 106 crore belonging to former CMD of UCO Bank SK Goel, his family members and associates as part of an ongoing money laundering investigation against him. Earlier on July 11, a supplementary chargesheet was filed against Goel before a special PMLA…
JAMMU: An Army Agniveer lost his life and two other soldiers were injured Friday when a landmine meant to check infiltration went off accidentally near the LoC in Krishna Ghati area of J&K’s Poonch, reports Sanjay Khajuria.Agniveer Lalit Kumar of 7 JAT Regiment was on patrol as part of area-domination exercises with colleagues when the…
Union home minister Amit Shah NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday inaugurated the two-day National Security Strategies Conference, where the police brass, domain experts and young police officers working at the cutting edge-level are joining heads to discuss the major challenges to national security and explore solutions.Shah directed the participants — who…
Election Commission on Friday appointed the secretary general of the Rajya Sabha as the returning officer for election to the office of vice-president. This was done in consultation with ministry of law and justice and with consent of deputy chairman of RS. The poll panel also appointed Garima Jain and Vijay Kumar, joint secretary and…
Centre suggests ‘country of origin’ filter on e-commerce sites New Delhi/Mumbai: Consumer affairs department on Friday suggested e-commerce companies explore including a new filter feature of “country of origin” on their websites and mobile apps for products, which will help consumers make quick choices. E-commerce platforms would have to create a new filter having a…
NEW DELHI: An Army man’s murder by an anti-Sikh riots mob at Kanpur on Nov 1, 1984, will remain unsolved as the time-tattered and disfigured FIR remains illegible as even the Central Forensic Science laboratory could neither decipher names of the accused nor the narration of the incident except that it was lodged under Sec…
NEW DELHI: The Public Accounts Committee has pulled up Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation and coal ministry over their failure in dealing with the Rs 1,390 crore investment by the PF body in beleaguered Dewan Housing Finance Company.In its report, the panel said that CMPFO could have exercised the option for early redemption of non-convertible…
Opposition motion in RS to oust Justice Varma was submitted, not admitted NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha will take up an all-party motion to remove Justice Yashwant Varma of Allahabad HC over the cash-in-house controversy. The opposition-sponsored notice for a similar motion in the Rajya Sabha hasn’t been admitted. RS secretariat, after a mandatory scrutiny,…