MUMBAI: After CJI B R Gavai pointed out protocol lapses during his visit to Mumbai Sunday, the state govt has issued guidelines to ensure adherence to official decorum during CJI’s visit to the state. Neither the chief secretary nor the DGP or Mumbai police chief had turned up when Gavai arrived here.CJI has now been…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi congratulated German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on his assuming office, while also exchanging views on regional and global issues of mutual interest. The leaders reiterated their shared commitment to combating terrorism in all its forms, said an Indian readout. Modi said in a post on X they stood united in the…
NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan on Tuesday held their weekly hotline talks between the offices of the rival directors general of military operations, with reports from Islamabad indicating that both sides agreed to withdraw troop reinforcements that had been forward-deployed along the western sector.There was, however, no official statement from Indian Army. One officer described…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah NEW DELHI: Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah Tuesday pitched for making the dairy sector more sustainable and environment friendly, and stressed on the need to ensure benefits of carbon credits to farmers.He was addressing a meeting on ‘Sustainability and Circularity in the Cooperative Dairy Sector’ where it was…
NEW DELHI: Technology is an important catalyst to improve health outcomes, PM Narendra Modi said Tuesday while addressing the 78th World Health Assembly being held in Geneva. Highlighting India’s achievements in this regard, Modi, in a video message, said, “We have a digital platform to track vaccination of pregnant women and children.Millions of people have…
Stellar cosmologist Jayant Narlikar‘s passing at 86 on Tuesday, peacefully and in sleep, is reminiscent of the gift of death at will, or the “ichha-mrityu” that grandsire Bhishma supposedly had in the Mahabharata. And speaking of grandsires, the demise of this much-decorated and beloved doyen of Indian astrophysicists coincides with the departures of larger-than-life grey…
AHMEDABAD: Nearly five years after his death from Covid, Gujarat HC has ordered compensation of Rs 25 lakh for a corona warrior’s family.The benefit is in line with a state pandemic policy of April 2020, but govt had rejected an application by Ahmed Patel’s widow on technical grounds. HC has directed govt to make the…
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand madrassa board and the state’s waqf board have proposed incorporation of a chapter on Operation Sindoor in the syllabus of madrassas under their jurisdiction. Chairman of Uttarakhand Madrassa Education Council Mufti Shamoon Qasmi met the defence minister in Delhi on Monday and pitched the proposal. “Our students and people should know why this…
NEW DELHI: Even as Congress continues to question govt over US President Donald Trump’s claim of brokering a “ceasefire” between India and Pakistan, party functionary Salman Khurshid, one of the delegates who will visit world capitals to put forth India’s stand against terrorism, diverged from Congress’s stand to say there was no mediation by any…
INDORE: Amid plans to start the Indore Metro operations on May 31, Madhya Pradesh govt has ordered a probe against a Turkiye-based firm – which has been assigned the contract for fare collections – to scrutinise its possible involvement in any anti-India activities.The Turkish firm, Asis Elektronik ve Biliim Sistemleri (AEBS, or Asis Electronics and…
