PUNE: Twenty states have recorded largely deficient pre-monsoon rain from March 1 to April 25, IMD data shows. The lack of rain in these two months sustains heat wave conditions, offers fruits and vegetables no respite from heat stress, and can impact irrigation for sugar cane and cotton, besides affecting pre-kharif sowing activity to some … Read more
GUWAHATI: Arrested Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani was freed on bail in Assam’s Kokrajhar on Monday, only for Barpeta police to take him into custody again on charges of assaulting a woman cop the day he was brought to the state to face a probe into allegedly provocative tweets on PM Narendra Modi. “BJP and RSS … Read more
NEW DELHI: EU’s partnership with India on solar power and green hydrogen is critical as it accelerates efforts to diversify away from fossil fuels and invest heavily in clean renewable energy because of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen told Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. EU has paid Russia … Read more
NEW DELHI: Moving towards rolling out the world’s first comprehensive health insurance scheme, the government plans to expand the Ayushman Bharat health cover to over 40 crore more people who are currently not covered under any government or private health insurance scheme. While over 50 crore people (10.74 crore families) are already covered under the … Read more
NEW DELHI: After a hiatus of over two years during which Covid-19 disrupted the Supreme Court’s normal functioning, it will resume in July hearing a batch of petitions challenging the scrapping of J&K’s special status under Article 370 and its bifurcation into UTs. On mention by senior advocates Shekhar Naphade and P Chidambaram for urgent … Read more
NEW DELHI: India remains ahead of Russia and the United Kingdom as the third largest military spender in the world, but far behind China that spends four times and the United States, which spends 10 times its defence budget. The total global military expenditure rose to $2,113 billion in 2021, surpassing the two-trillion-USD mark for … Read more
NEW DELHI: An Assam court on Monday granted bail to Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani in a case over a purported tweet against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mevani, an independent legislator supported by Congress, was arrested by Assam police last week for a purported tweet in which he claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi “considered Godse as … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress said on Sunday that BJP is using the claims made by a “fraudster” languishing in jail for many years to allege corruption against the party and settle political vendetta. It was responding to allegations of extortion levelled against Congress by BJP, citing statements by Yes Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor to the Enforcement … Read more
NEW DELHI: Coming out in defence of the lawmaker couple from Maharashtra — independent MP wife Navneet Rana and her husband, MLA Ravi Rana, also an independent — BJP on Sunday accused Maharashtra’s MVA government of having hatred for Hindu faith and asked since when reciting the Hanuman Chalisa has become seditious. BJP extended its … Read more
SRINAGAR: A Lashkar-e-Taiba deputy commander wanted for killing two J&K police officers in separate attacks last year and a Srinagar teen reported missing by his family were among three terrorists shot dead in a gunfight with security forces at Pahoo in south Kashmir’s Pulwama on Sunday. Ten terrorists have been shot and killed in four … Read more