NEW DELHI: Prominent opposition parties have agreed in principle to support a motion seeking the removal of Allahabad high court judge Justice Yashwant Varma, Union minister Kiren Rijiju said on Thursday. The process of collecting signatures from MPs to initiate the motion could begin shortly, he added.The govt is yet to decide whether the motion…
NEW DELHI: PM Modi will reach Port of Spain Thursday on the first visit by an Indian PM to Trinidad and Tobago since 1999. While this will be his first official visit, part of the focus on strengthening engagement with the Carribean nation’s Indian diaspora, Modi’s ties with Trinidad and Tobago, stretch back 25 years.In…
NEW DELHI: The social media accounts of several Pakistani actors and cricketers remain blocked after it was reported that certain celeb accounts were now accessible to Indian users.On Wednesday, Instagram accounts of certain Pakistan actors, including Mawra Hocane, Saba Qamar, Ahad Raza Mir, Yumna Zaidi, and Danish Taimoor, briefly appeared to be accessible to the…
NEW DELHI: PM Modi addressed the parliament of Ghana in a first for an Indian leader, pitching for reforms of global institutions at a time the world is faced with new and complex crises such as climate change, pandemics, terrorism and cybersecurity. He said that institutions created in the last century are struggling to respond…
PATIALA: One of the last survivors of the 1947 Partition died in Dhainthal village of Punjab’s Patiala on Tuesday, aged 102. Ram Krishan Singh’s life reflected the horrors of communal violence as well as the courage and compassion that shone through despite the bloodshed.Ram Krishan was about 24-years-old during the division of India into two…
NEW DELHI: The country’s space regulator-cum-promoter Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) on Thursday said it facilitated the transfer of 10 state-of-the-art technologies developed by Isro to six Indian companies.The tripartite technology transfer agreements, signed among NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), six companies and IN-SPACe at the regulator’s headquarters in Ahmedabad, will give private…
NEW DELHI: In a major policy change, all highway agencies under the road transport ministry, including the NHAI, will soon replace the least cost (L1) mode for bidding out works for preparing detailed project reports (DPRs) with highest technical score (T1) for companies. The agencies will fix cost for consultancy service (bid price) and companies…
NEW DELHI: After a video of a damaged portion of an under-construction section of the Amritsar-Jamnagar Economic Corridor in Gujarat went viral, NHAI suspended the project’s contractor, authority engineer and an official. Contractor CDS Infra Projects Ltd has been barred from participating in ongoing and future bids, and a penalty of Rs 2.8 crore has…
AHMEDABAD: Six families of victims of the AI 171 crash on Thursday received a “second set” of remains from the Civil Hospital here. For some, this may mean a second funeral.These remains were from the 16 more found at the wreckage site in Meghaninagar during post-disaster operations; they were matched with DNA samples provided by…
Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) has filed a PIL in Calcutta high court, alleging the Bengal govt’s decision to designate the newly constructed Jagannath temple in Digha as ‘Jagannath Dham’ is an ‘unconstitutional’ act aimed to distort religious heritage.VHP, in its petition filed on Wednesday, argued that the term ‘dham’ holds significant spiritual and historical importance,…