Veteran diplomat Sanjay Kumar Verma has been appointed as India's next High Commissioner to Canada. Verma, a 1988-batch IFS officer currently India's Ambassador to Japan, will soon take over the new post.
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31st Mar 2026 | Updated at 08:39pm 31st Mar 2026
CM Sharma visits UK to usher investments into ‘Rising Rajasthan’
The Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, Deputy CM Diya Kumari with delegates visited London last week, to host an investor meet. The afternoon was organised by FICCI and High Commission of India at Taj 51 Buckingham Gate, and was attended...
Punjab govt to move SC against governor
Chandigarh: The two-day Punjab assembly session was cut short by a day after chief minister Bhagwant Mann informed the House that since governor Banwarilal Purohit had not given assent to the three money Bills, his government would resume the...
Gaganyaan test flight's crew module successfully recovered by Navy
Hours after the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) scientists successfully conducted the Gaganyaan failure test, the Navy’s Eastern Naval Command recovered the Crew Module (CM) from the Bay of Bengal. Isro chief S Somanath said the crew...
KCR unveils poll promises to counter Congress' guarantees
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) unveiled its own set of promises ahead of the November 30 assembly polls to counter Congress’s “six guarantees”, setting the stage for a competitive electoral race as the party led by CM K Chandrasekhar...
TMC stands for 'terror, mafia, corruption': Nadda
Kolkata: Launching a frontal attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led regime in Bengal, BJP national president J P Nadda said that the time has come to bid farewell to the jungle raj of the TMC, which stands for ’Terror, Mafia, Corruption’.
Encroachment row: Didi gives Amartya Sen land deed
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land record documents of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s residence in Santiniketan to the celebrated economist, dismissing the claims of the current Visva-Bharati dispensation that he was illegally...
West Midlands delegation visits Ahmedabad to boost ties
A 37-member West Midlands delegation, led by Mayor Richard Parker and officials including Manoj Ladwa and Neil Rami, visited Ahmedabad to strengthen economic, cultural, and educational ties, coinciding with the inaugural Commonwealth Connect...
Somnath Swabhiman Parv honours India’s spiritual resilience
The Somnath Swabhiman Parv, held at the first Jyotirlinga in Gujarat, marks one thousand years since the first attack on the Somnath Temple in 1026. This national event, instead of focusing on destruction, celebrates India’s resilience, faith,...
Seeing the path taken by India since 2014, India is likely to get the tag of 3rd largest economy in 2029. India reported double digit economic growth at 13.5 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal. At this rate, India is likely...
India and Bangladesh on Tuesday signed seven agreements for cooperation in areas ranging from sharing of river waters to space and unveiled new connectivity...
A clash broke out in Congress over the forthcoming elections to the post of party president, with three MPs publicly demanding that the electoral rolls be made public, and the party rejecting it by saying that the practice has never existed.
India recorded a big dip in Covid-19 numbers in the last week, with both fresh cases and deaths registering their sharpest weekly decreases in percentage terms at least the last four months. For the first time since early June, India is likely...
Senior politician Ghulam Nabi Azad said at his first public rally after severing his five-decade association with Congress on August 26, restoration of...
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on the second day of his trip to Delhi continued meetings with opposition leaders - part of his effort to forge an opposition...
Cyrus Mistry, former chairman of Tata Sons, was killed in a road accident after his car rammed a divider in Maharashtra's Palghar on Sunday afternoon....
The Congress Working Committee (CWC) approved the schedule for the election of the new party president, with the process starting with nominations on September 24 and culminating with voting on October 17
Amid the political turmoil in Jharkhand, MLAs of the ruling United Progressive Alliance government were shifted to Raipur in Chhattisgarh, in what could be the start of resort politics till the time the CM Hemant Soren's disqualification matter...
