Double-Engine Govts Reduce Differences: Shah NEW DELHI: Four states adjoining Narmada river – Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra – Tuesday reached an agreement over their decades-old dispute related to the displacement of people in water-submerged areas and compensation for land in the river project.CMs of the four states signed the agreement on settlement of…
Union minister Bhupender Yadav NEW DELHI: The Centre has removed four officials from environment minister Bhupender Yadav‘s office. The officials are Yadav’s private secretary, assistant private secretary and two additional private secretaries.Yadav’s private secretary, Amar Singh, a 2010 batch IRS officer, was removed on “administrative grounds”. The appointments of assistant private secretary Siddharth Yadav and…
NEW DELHI: Meta Tuesday announced a fresh set of measures to combat child exploitation across its platforms, days after the Indian govt issued a notice over Instagram advertisements allegedly carrying child sexual abuse material, putting further pressure on the company to strengthen its safety systems.In a blog post, the company said it had already identified…
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, and Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto arrive for a joint press conference following their meeting, at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP Photo/PTI) PM Narendra Modi underlined the need for urgent UNSC reforms, backed freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific and urged greater cooperation against terrorism, as he addressed the…
SRINAGAR: The high court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh Tuesday rejected a Congress worker’s plea to shift his trial in a cheque bounce case to Jammu, saying he had no reason to feel threatened as terrorism had almost been eliminated in the Valley.“Militancy is almost negligible at present in Kashmir Valley and the situation…
Doda: People walk through debris after a flash flood triggered by a cloudburst, at Thathri, in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district. (PTI Photo)(PTI07_07_2026_000524B) JAMMU: Torrential rainfall triggered flash floods and mudslides in Thathri town of J&K’s Doda district early Tuesday, extensively damaging residential structures and roads, including portions of the Doda-Kishtwar highway, the region’s arterial…
NEW DELHI: Chennai saw the highest percentage – 92.2% – domestic flights of IndiGo, Air India Group, Akasa, Alliance Air and SpiceJet operating on time this May, among the top 10 busiest busy Indian airpots followed by Kolkata (84.7%), Hyderabad (84.4%), Bengaluru (82.3%) and Kochi (81.5%%). The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Tuesday released…
According to the complaint, children were allegedly put inside a front-loading washing machine. NEW DELHI: Bengaluru Police on Tuesday defended the arrest of Sujatha, the whistleblower in the alleged abuse of toddlers at a daycare centre inside an IT firm’s campus, saying investigators had found “enough evidence” to name her as an accused in the…
BKTC suspends employee as probe into alleged theft begins NEW DELHI: An employee of the Shri Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee (BKTC) was suspended on Tuesday as a four-member inquiry panel began investigating alleged irregularities in the handling of devotees’ donations at Badrinath Dham.The suspension comes days after allegations of financial irregularities during the counting of offerings…
Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman. (Reuters representative image) NEW DELHI: A Qatari liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier carrying four Indian crew members came under a suspected drone attack near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, according to ANI sources. The vessel was on its way to Dahej in Gujarat.Officials…
