Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called upon people to start a mass movement for water conservation and resolve to save every drop of water amidst water scarcity in several parts of the country. He said an awareness campaign should be started which should not only […]
The United States has deployed F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar for the first time, its military said yesterday. The announcement adds to a buildup of US forces in the Gulf amid tensions with Iran. The US Air Forces Central Military Command stated that the Air […]
Over Six lakh 29 thousand handloom workers across the country have been enrolled under the Mahatma Gandhi Bunkar Bima Yojana since 2016-17. Of them, Six thousand 777 have been provided insurance benefits in the case of natural death, accidental death, total and partial disability during […]
@APUnited States President Donald Trump said trade negotiations with China were “back on track” after talks with his counterpart Xi Jinping earlier today. The US has reportedly agreed to hold off on new tariffs. The crunch talks on the trade war between the world’s top […]
NewsUnion Minister and Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan was today elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Bihar. The leader has been elected to the Upper House in a by-poll necessitated by the resignation of his cabinet colleague Ravi Shankar Prasad, who won […]
Indian Naval Ship Tarkash reached Alexandria today on a three-day visit to Egypt, as a part of Western Fleet Overseas Deployment programme. An official release said, during the visit of Tarkash, professional interactions are planned with the Egyptian Navy towards further enhancing co-operation between the […]
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das has cautioned against cherry-picking of data by experts, saying correlations can conveniently be used to establish “spurious causality” to achieve desired results. He was speaking at the RBI’s 13th Annual Conference yesterday. The theme of the conference […]
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy have resolved to work together and to provide water to every nook and corner of both the states for agriculture, industrial and drinking purposes. They asked officials to prepare strategies to […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has outlined his 5 I vision to maximize digital technology for social benefit. In his intervention at the G-20 summit on digital economy and artificial intelligence (AI) at Osaka yesterday, he put thrust on inclusiveness, indigenization, innovation, investment and infrastructure and […]
India’s acting High Commissioner to Bangladesh Bishwadip Dey today paid his respects to the eminent Gandhian and Padmashree Awardee Jharna Dhara Chowdhury who passed away yesterday in Dhaka at the age of 80. He laid a flower wreath and wrote a condolence message for the […]