THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Congress brass moved closer Tuesday to ending Kerala’s week-long CM deadlock after protests, social media campaigns and factional muscle-flexing threatened to overshadow UDF’s blowout election victory.A final round of talks involving Mallikarjun Kharge, MPs Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi was expected to seal decision on successor to Left Front’s 10-year tenure in Kerala, party…
NEW DLEHI: The size of PM Narendra Modi’s carcade has been officially reduced at his instance, a significant move towards austerity which is to act as a nudge for others in govt to follow.Sources said PM has asked special protection group (SPG)-elite security corps which looks after his security-to try to reduce number of cars…
NEW DELHI: With a fresh plea being filed in property dispute between late industrialist Sunjay Kapur’s mother Rani Kapur and his wife Priya Kapur just days after SC appointed former CJI D Y Chandrachud as mediator, the apex court has said that even Mahabharat would pale in comparison to the family legal battle. The matter…
NEW DELHI: India Meteorological Department on Tuesday launched two new services, including an AI-enabled monsoon advance forecasting system that will provide information on progress of the seasonal rainfall and “localised weather information” up to four weeks in advance to support farmers across 16 states and more than 3,000 sub-districts.The second product, launched as a pilot…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear the plea of Enforcement Directorate seeking cancellation of bail granted to alleged West Bengal coal smuggling ‘kingpin’ Anup Majee and issued notice to him but it observed that the agency was dragging its feet as the probe was going on for the last six years.A bench…
NEW DELHI: CBI has filed an FIR and taken over the investigation into the murder of Chandranath Rath, former personal assistant to West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari, reports Rajshekhar Jha. The agency has formed a seven-member SIT, headed by a DIG-rank officer, to probe the case. A meeting was held at the CBI headquarters in…
JAMMU: A court in Jammu on Monday remanded five people, including two Pakistani nationals, in 25-day judicial custody in an NIA case related to terror activities.Earlier, police probing logistical support for terror activities had intercepted a bike in Srinagar and seized a grenade and 15 bullets from the possession of Mohammad Naqeeb Bhat.His interrogation led…
NEW DELHI: Amid reports that China provided tech assistance to Pakistan in the military conflict that followed India’s Op Sindoor last year, the govt urged China to introspect about the likely reputational cost of backing terrorist infrastructure. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that the reports had only corroborated what was already known.“Operation Sindoor…
SRINAGAR: PDP’s Iltija Mufti, the daughter of former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti, Tuesday blamed the governing NC for the suspension of her social media accounts, alleging that the party was acting in collusion with the BJP to target its critics.“X has withheld my account. Usually, they send an email, but in my case, there has…
External affairs minister S Jaishankar will host his Iranian counterpart Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Friday for bilateral talks, hoping to address some of India’s concerns related to energy and connectivity. While the ministers have spoken on multiple occasions since the conflict in the West Asia region started on February 28, this will be their first…
