India's defence minister Rajnath Singh held bilateral discussions with his Maldivian counterpart Mohamed Ghassan Maumoon in Delhi. He comprehensively reviewed various aspects of bilateral defence and security cooperation, the government said...
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22nd Mar 2026 | Updated at 08:37am 22nd 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,...
As the auspicious Maha Kumbh Mela begins in Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh), drawing 16.5 million pilgrims to bathe in the holy river of Ganga, India also witnesses...
Delhi will go to polls in a single phase on February 5, with a fierce triangular contest between the AAP, BJP and the Congress setting the political temperatures soaring in the cold wave-gripped national capital. The results will be announced...
The govt of India has lodged a strong protest with China over the recent creation of two counties in the Hotan prefecture in its northwest, saying parts of these “so-called counties” fall in the Union Territory of Ladakh and India has never...
The 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) convention is being organised in partnership with the state government of Odisha from 8-10 January 2025 in Bhubaneswar. The theme of this PBD convention is "Diaspora's Contribution to a Viksit Bharat",...
Ayodhya is preparing for an overwhelming influx of devotees during the upcoming New Year period, as thousands are expected to visit the newly constructed Ram Mandir.
PM Narendra Modi urged the nation to embrace the upcoming Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj as an occasion for unity. In his monthly radio address ‘Mann Ki Baat’, he emphasised the event’s potential to foster national cohesion and called upon people to...
Three years ago, a Gujarati family - 39-year-old Jagdish Patel, wife Vaishali (35), daughter (11) and son (3) - froze to death on the US-Canada border in Manitoba while trying to illegally cross over to the US. The traffickers had left the family...
India went a step closer to becoming part of an elite group of nations with space-docking technology -the ability to mate two spacecraft - after Isro put a pair of small satellites weighing 220kg each into orbit as part of its SpaDeX mission.
Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh passed away in Delhi, India on 26 December 2024 at the age of 92. Widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic liberalisation, Singh served as one of the country’s longest-serving prime ministers,...
