PM Modi with Japan’s PM Shigeru Ishiba; China’s president Xi Jinping NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi set the stage for his meeting with President Xi on Sunday as he said in Tokyo that given the current volatility in world economy, it is important for India and China, as 2 major economies, to work together to…
New Delhi: The govt will soon rank states on parameters of quality of land records, ease of land acquisition and their active participation for taking up highway development works. Delay in getting land and poor land records are the biggest hindrances in execution of road projects.“We are planning to carry out ranking of states on…
New Delhi: In the next four years, investment in the urban sector is likely to be around Rs 10 lakh crore, housing and urban affairs secretary Srinivas Katikithala said on Friday while urging real estate developers to take up projects along the major transport corridors and areas with infrastructure facilities rather than launching projects where…
NEW DELHI: The Punjab government has announced that chief minister Bhagwant Mann, his cabinet colleagues and all Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs will donate one month’s salary to support relief measures for those affected by the floods in the state.In Hoshiarpur district’s Abdullahpur village, AAP MLA Jasvir Singh Raja Gill drew attention after relocating the…
A father in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi district has been arrested for allegedly killing his daughter and staging it as a suicide. The incident took place on Thursday, in Melakunda village, over her relationship with a man from another community, Police Commissioner Sharanappa S D said on Friday.Shankar, the father of the girl, is accused of strangling…
NEW DELHI: “Stop the bickering. Let’s together fight the larger battle!” – Kapil Sibal‘s advice to Arvind Kejriwal after the AAP convener’s latest offensive against the Congress is unlikely to impress the former Delhi chief minister.Sibal, who served as Union minister in the UPA governments and is currently an Independent Rajya Sabha member, counselled Kejriwal…
Security personnel with the whistleblower, in mask, near a site of an alleged burial related to the Dharmasthala mass burial case (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Sujata Bhat, who had previously alleged that her daughter Ananya disappeared from the Dharmasthala temple premises in 2003, had reportedly expressed her desire to withdraw the complaint during the Special…
Vikrant Misri (ANI image) NEW DELHI: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Friday said that India and Japan have launched an Economic Security Initiative to strengthen supply chain resilience and collaboration in key sectors. The five priority sectors identified under the initiative are semiconductors, critical minerals, pharmaceuticals, information and communication technology (particularly telecommunications), and clean energy.Misri…
NEW DELHI: Government’s FIT recognised Sadhguru-envisioned “Isha Gramotsavam,” which is described as India’s largest rural sports festival, will be taking place this year across seven states, including Odisha, where for the first time the event will be held.A majority of the rural population, which stays away from sports and fitness, will find a space in…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will fulfil its promise of making the country free of infiltrators.Speaking at a programme in Guwahati on the birth centenary of Assam’s first non-Congress chief minister, Golap Borbora, Shah said the high-power demography mission announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi…