Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday pledged to work with the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump, highlighting the importance of maintaining stability in US-China relations. His remarks came during a meeting with outgoing US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum in Lima, Peru. This marked their…
Chris Wright (Picture credit: X) US President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy and a campaign donor, to serve as energy secretary in his second administration.Appointing Wright, a proponent of oil and gas development, including fracking, aligns with Trump’s goal of achieving US “energy dominance.”The department of energy oversees a wide…
NEW DELHI: The city’s air quality slipped to severe levels again Saturday after improving marginally to the higher end of ‘very poor’ the day before, thanks to sluggish weather conditions and a spike in stubble burning (season’s highest share of 37.5%), among other factors. Bursting of firecrackers in parts of the city on Gurpurab on…
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday highlighted the critical issue of fair compensation for traditional media, underlining how it is financially disadvantaged as news consumption is “rapidly shifting” from the conventional modes to the digital space.During his address on National Press Day, hosted by Press Council of India, the minister argued…
KOCHI: The Kerala high court has held in a significant judgment that in a democratic country where citizens possess the fundamental right to practise and profess their faith, the establishment of a religious place by any community should not be curtailed merely due to opposition from other groups.The ruling on Friday came in response to…
CBSE plans big push to fill learning gaps (Representative Image) NEW DELHI: With learning gaps increasingly being linked to ineffective teaching practices in schools, CBSE plans to launch an ‘assessment centre’ by June next year to address the challenge, focusing on aligning teaching with student outcomes, elevating education quality, and improving student evaluation.Findings of studies,…
Over two months after Akal Takht – the highest temporal seat of Sikhs – declared Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal ‘tankhaiya’, or guilty of religious misconduct, he sent his resignation to the party’s working committee on Saturday.Badal, 62, has stepped down ahead of the election for the post of party president, office-bearers…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday said terrorists now do not feel safe in their homes, unlike during the tenure of previous governments.Mentioning that he saw reports of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack at an exhibition at the venue, Modi said, “There was a time when people felt unsafe in their own houses and…
JHANSI: Yakoob Mansuri, in his 20s, was a hero on Friday night, for other people’s children. His own newborn twin girls, they will never know.For a week, the young food vendor from Hamirpur had been sleeping outside the neonatal intensive care unit of Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College where his two newborn twin daughters had…
RAIPUR: Four days before Maharashtra polls, five Maoists, including two women, were shot dead in a nearly daylong encounter with security forces in Abujhmarh forests of Bastar Saturday. The gunbattle took place in a jungle on the border of Kanker and Narayanpur, close to the Maharashtra border.Security personnel seized five automatic weapons, including an Insas…
