Marching into history: NDA’s first women cadets graduate PUNE: The first batch of 17 women National Defence Academy (NDA) cadets passed out Friday, scripting a new chapter in the annals of the Indian Armed Forces.Unlike previous parades during their three years at the academy, when they had a separate contingent, the 17 marched with male…
File photo: New Zealand deputy PM and foreign minister Winston Peters NEW DELHI: New Zealand is pursuing a free trade agreement (FTA) purposefully with India for which negotiations were launched earlier this year, visiting Deputy PM and foreign minister Winston Peters said Friday. Peters discussed with his counterpart S Jaishankar issues related to trade, economy,…
Lavrov pushes for revival of Russia-India-China troika (Picture credit: AP) With India having resolved its 2020 border standoff with China in Ladakh, Russia is pushing India to restart the Russia-India-China (RIC) trilateral mechanism. Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said an understanding had been reached between India and China on how to ease the situation on the…
‘Dharavi likely to unlock 140m sqft free sale portion’ MUMBAI: Property experts estimate a free sale component of roughly 140 million sq ft to be unlocked by the Dharavi redevelopment plan, yielding revenues of Rs 1.2-1.7 lakh crore for the joint venture between the state government and the Adani group.Said Anuj Puri, chairman, Anarock Group,…
File photo: PM Modi (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: In a span of just a month, PM Narendra Modi has twice taken top central government bureaucrats and state chief secretaries by surprise by flagging public grievances that had reached him directly, reports Dipak Dash.On April 30, secretaries and chief secretaries attending a meeting under Pragati…
3 new judges take oath, SC reaches its full strength of 34 NEW DELHI: Chief Justice B R Gavai Friday administered oath of office to three new SC judges, Justices N V Anjaria, Vijay Bishnoi and A S Chandurkar. With this, SC reached its constitutionally sanctioned strength of 34 judges.On May 26, the collegium comprising…
NEW DELHI: Former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid on Friday showed his displeasure over opposition’s remarks on MPs supporting the Centre with his statements on Operation Sindoor.While interacting with the Indian community in Indonesia’s Jakarta, Khurshid said that all-party MP delegations are not supporting each other’s parties but a “simple idea called India.““India is waiting…
PALGHAR: A 17-year-old girl accidentally shot herself in the neck with her 18-year-old male friend’s illegal country-made gun at a homestay in Kelwa, in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, on Friday, reports Vishal Rajemahadik.The girl is undergoing treatment in the ICU of a hospital in Boisar, said police who have arrested the friend and booked him for…
LUCKNOW: A day after being assaulted in office by a joint commissioner, a deputy commissioner-level Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer accused the senior colleague of attacking him over a three-month-old dispute related to a departmental cricket match. An FIR was registered at Lucknow’s Hazratganj police station on Friday over the incident, which allegedly also involved…
Representative image (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: CBI has arrested a deputy director of ED in Odisha, Chintan Raghuvanshi, in connection with an alleged bribery case. The agency had conducted a ‘trap operation’ on Thursday after receiving a complaint that the officer had demanded a bribe of Rs 5 crore from a Bhubaneswar-based mining businessman,…
