US President Donald Trump dialled PM Narendra Modi to discuss the situation in the West Asia region, including the importance of securing safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, and to review what the Indian leader described as substantial progress achieved in bilateral cooperation in various sectors. This was the second time that…
NEW DELHI: Siphoning or under-reporting toll revenue from overloaded vehicles on national highways will be impossible from April 15 (Wednesday). Toll collecting agencies will collect higher user charges from overloaded vehicles only via FASTag, and they must record such vehicles and report this to the government’s Vahan portal.The provision of reporting overloading to the Vahan…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday received a phone call from US President Donald Trump, during which the two leaders reviewed bilateral ties and the situation in West Asia.PM Modi said in a post on X, “Received a call from my friend President Donald Trump. We reviewed the substantial progress achieved in our…
NEW DELHI: The “josh” is high for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as Bihar is all set to get its chief minister from the saffron party. Samrat Choudhary was elected the leader of the NDA legislative party, paving the way for him to become the first BJP CM of Bihar. And with this, the BJP…
NEW DELHI: Janata Dal (United) supremo Nitish Kumar on Tuesday tendered his resignation as the chief minister of Bihar, setting the state towards a new era of politics. BJP‘s Samrat Choudhary is all set to take the oath as the next CM.With Lalu Yadav out of active politics and Nitish Kumar now in Rajya Sabha,…
Societies clinging to the past while dreaming of the future are often trapped between two mental states. India, just out of the clutches of colonialism, too experienced this duality in social order. In this general backdrop of ambiguity, the nation’s attitude to the female playback voice, too, was complicated. After all, voices are secret catalogues…
NEW DELHI: At least nine workers were killed and 15 injured in a boiler explosion at Vedanta Limted power plant in Chhattisgarh’s Sakti district on Tuesday. “Nine workers have died, and 15 have sustained injuries,” Prafull Thakur, Sakti superintendent of police said, adding that the explosion occured in the afternoon.The SP further informed that right…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal is scheduled to visit Tamil Nadu on April 20, where he will address election rallies in support of the DMK and chief minister MK Stalin on April 20 and 21, the party said on Tuesday.AAP has not fielded any candidates in the Assembly elections and…
Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin (File photo) NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Tuesday issued a sharp warning to the BJP-led central government over the proposed delimitation exercise, saying the state would launch massive protests if any move harmed Tamil Nadu’s interests or disproportionately increased the political influence of northern states.In a…
NEW DELHI: Imported food items may reach consumers faster and in better condition, after the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) changed its clearance process to reduce delays at ports.In a key change, FSSAI has allowed inspection and testing of imported food consignments to happen together, instead of waiting for payments at every…
