- Monday, May 05, 2025
INDIA and Saudi Arabia will sign a raft of key pacts to significantly ramp up ties in several sectors including oil and gas, renewable energy, and civil aviation during Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to the Gulf nation beginning Monday (28). The major pacts to be signed included…
VETERAN sports journalist and author K R Wadhwaney died at his home here. Wadhwaney, 90, was suffering from age related ailments and died on Thursday night at his home in Press Enclave, Saket. The former journalist is survived by his wife Asha, daughter Sneh and son Rohit. Wadhwaney's daughter, a…
THE exhibition cum e-auctioning of mementos received by Prime Minister Narendra Modi drew to a close on Friday with the highest bid of Rs 25 lakh (Rs 2.5 million)for a painting of the PM with Mahatma Gandhi, a statement from the government said. All proceeds from the e-auction will be…
THE Supreme Court on Friday sought response of the Centre on a PIL seeking entry of Muslim women in all mosques of the country. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices S A Bobde and S A Nazeer issued notice to the union ministry of law and justice…
PRIVATE construction work is in full bloom in Kashmir but the exodus of non-local labourers after the abrogation of Article 370 provisions has resulted in cost escalation of building material, according to industry players here. Besides the hike in wages of daily-rated labourers, there has been 15 to 25 per…
EIGHTY-FOUR of the 90 newly elected Haryana MLAs are crorepatis, according to an analysis by-poll watchdog Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). In the outgoing assembly, 75 of the 90 MLAs possessed assets worth more than Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million), which means the number of crorepati legislators has increased…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday credited the decision to scrap the special status of Jammu and Kashmir for the high voter turnout in the state's first-ever Block Development Council (BDC) polls. "Thanks to the decisions of the Indian Parliament, young and dynamic representatives will shape the destiny of…
DECLARING that the people of Haryana have rejected the BJP, the Congress on Friday accused the saffron party of using allurements of money and power to get a majority and said a government formed through such means would be "illegitimate". A day after results threw up a hung assembly in…
SHARES of Vodafone Idea crashed over 27 per cent on Thursday (24) after the Supreme Court allowed the Indian government’s plea to recover adjusted gross revenue (AGR) of about Rs 920 billion from telecommunication service providers in the country. Vodafone Idea plummeted 23.36 per cent to close at Rs 4.33…
DEVENDRA Fadnavis was on Thursday set to return as chief minister of Maharashtra, steering the BJP to another electoral win and dealing the NCP-Congress a blow but the victory gong sounded just a little hollow. It was a day of records for the 49-year-old Nagpur-born BJP leader with close family…
