There are important commercial – and powerful geopolitical – reasons for a full Free Trade Agreement between the UK and India. Although plans to meet in person have been delayed, major opportunities lie ahead – but India needs to "make good"...
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11th Apr 2026 | Updated at 04:23am 11th Apr 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,...
In Phase 5 of assembly elections held in West Bengal on April 17, 45 constituencies in the districts of Jalpaiguri, Kalimpong, Darjeeling, and a segment of Nadia, North 24 Parganas, and Purba Bardhaman saw enthusiastic voter turnout.
New Delhi: Refusing to club the remaining three phases of elections in West Bengal, the Election Commission on April 16 reduced the time for campaigning by three hours in view of the renewed Covid-19 crisis. The poll panel ordered that campaigns...
Senior lawyer HS Phoolka has asked Congress MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu to take action as justice has not been done in the 2015 sacrilege incidents.
Chandigarh: As Covid-19 cases continue to rise rapidly across the country, including in Punjab, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh ordered stricter restrictions,...
More than two years after allegations of abuse of power first surfaced, and four days after the Kerala Lokayukta found him guilty of nepotism and violation of oath of office and held that he should not continue in his post, higher education...
Bengaluru: Karnataka logged its biggest single day spike of 19,067 new cases of Covid-19 and 81 deaths, taking the total number of infections to 11,41,998 and the deaths to 13,351. The state had previously reported its biggest single day spike...
Vaccinations will be opened to all above 18 from May 1, the government announced after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a series of meetings over India's...
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Monday after testing positive for Covid-19. “Wishing our former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh ji good health and a speedy recovery,”...
Easing the rules for overseas citizen of India (OCI) card holders, the government has dispensed with the requirement of getting one’s OCI card re-issued...
