US President Donald Trump on Thursday said Washington won’t enter trade talks with India until the tariff dispute is resolved.“No, not until we get it resolved,” Trump said in the Oval Office when asked whether he expected talks to resume following his administration’s decision to double tariffs on Indian imports.Earlier, principal deputy spokesperson for the…
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Patiala House court Thursday allowed 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks plotter Tahawwur Rana to have a phone conversation with his family for the limited purpose of discussing the engagement of a new legal aid counsel.At present, advocate Piyush Sachdeva from Delhi Legal Services Authority is Rana’s legal counsel. The Pakistan-born Canadian moved court…
NEW DELHI: The armed forces have come up with new joint doctrines for cyberspace and amphibious operations, with the former especially emerging as a key element of non-contact warfare, blurring the demarcation between war and peace.The “declassified versions” of the doctrines were released during a meeting chaired by Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to examine a proposal to make ‘none of the above (NOTA)’ choice available to voters even when a single candidate is in the fray to enable them to express their approval of him/her, and countermand the elections if NOTA votes exceed votes polled by the candidate.Despite Centre and…
NEW DELHI: Following through on his claim of “atom bomb evidence of voter manipulation” in favour of governing BJP, Congress’ Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said over one lakh voters were downright fake in Mahadevapura assembly seat that BJP swept to narrowly win Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency in 2024. There are eight segments in the…
Nagpur: Atop a gentle hill in Girad village in Wardha district, surrounded by lush greenery and revered equally by Hindu and Muslim devotees, stands the Sheikh Farid Dargah. A site known for harmony was used as a prominent plot in the Raj More-directed Marathi film, ‘Khalid Ka Shivaji’, which has now triggered statewide controversy over…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Thursday termed Rahul Gandhi’s allegation of poll fraud against EC a “calculated deceit through a selective outrage” and accused Congress of “systematically” attacking constitutional bodies under a larger conspiracy against India’s democracy and the Constitution.“The ideologically hollow Congress is systematically attacking constitutional institutions. It cannot be ruled out that there is…
NEW DELHI: The chief electoral officers (CEO) of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Haryana, reacting to Rahul Gandhi‘s allegations of “massive voter fraud” during the 2024 Lok Sabha poll in Karnataka and the latest assembly polls in Maharashtra and Haryana, have said they would initiate the necessary proceedings after he declares under oath that he believes the…
NEW DELHI: Govt has fixed the ceiling price of formulations of four emergency-use medicines and fixed retail price of 37 other drug formulations, including antibiotics and painkillers, of certain companies.The emergency-use medicines include Ipratropium, used to prevent wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing and chest tightness in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Its ceiling price…
NEW DELHI: Rejecting Justice Yashwant Varma’s petition on Thursday, a Supreme Court bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and A G Masih said it was “unreasonable to even think that despite an incident of the present nature, the CJI would wait for Parliament to take action”.“The CJI, upon being informed of a judge’s remissness, does have…