The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the development of 8 important National High Speed Corridor projects with a length of 936 km at a cost of £5.06 bn across the country. Implementation...
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31st Jul 2026 | Updated at 12:34am 31st Jul 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,...
The Gujarat Government is reportedly thinking about relaxing the prohibition in the state, as the GoG is preparing for allowing alcohol consumption at Surat’s Diamond Bourse, just like GIFT City.
The state level 78th Independence Day will be celebrated with renewed enthusiasm in Kheda district. For the first time in a decade, there is a fresh sense of excitement surrounding this state festival, which will take place throughout the district,...
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi claimed the Centre was planning an Enforcement Directorate raid on him because it was angry with his “chakravyuh” comment, a claim which triggered day-long speculation and commentary besides leading BJP to jibe that...
Less than a week after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, India and China held “constructive” and “forward-looking” conversations to resolve the border standoff between the two countries.
As many as 16 people were killed and six seriously injured after flashfloods and landslides triggered by “heavy to very heavy rainfall” wreaked havoc in parts of Uttarakhand. Kedarnath valley remained completely cut off following a landslide...
On the fifth anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370, PM Narendra Modi recalled the legislation passed by Parliament on Aug 5, 2019, as a “watershed moment in the country’s history”, which, he said, heralded a new era of progress and prosperity...
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy was on a two-day visit to India to advance negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement and strengthen the bilateral partnership...
A man attacked a woman post-graduate student with a knife inside a university in West Bengal's Malda district, before trying to kill himself with the same weapon, an official said
Calcutta high court held that Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee had the right to make statements against governor CV Ananda Bose as long as they were not defamatory in nature. The court lifted the interim restraint on Banerjee from making statements...
