NEW DELHI: Government aims to have “barrier-free” tolling on national highways of four lanes or more, and all high-speed corridors, in the next five years, Economic Survey said. This will ensure seamless travel as commuters won’t have to stop or slow down to pay user fee.Around 46,000 km of the nearly 1.5 lakh km NH…
The highly anticipated Super Bowl LIX is set to take place in a few days from now in the southern United States, between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, February 9, at 6:30 pm ET. More than just the final game of the season, the Super Bowl has been a global…
INDIA: India’s expanding space capabilities are transforming infrastructure management and laying the groundwork for ambitious future missions, the Economic Survey 2024-25 has said.The Survey 2024-25, presented by FM Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday, notes that India currently operates 56 active space assets, including 19 communication satellites, nine navigation satellites, four scientific satellites and 24 earth observation…
NEW DELHI: Arguing that self-regulation has been ineffective, the Economic Survey 2024-25 has called for stringent front-of-the-pack labelling rules for the $37.9 billion ultra-processed food (UPF) industry in India.Labels on the front of food packages will serve as a quick reference to nutritional information.Many countries, including France, Canada, the UK, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Israel, Peru,…
NEW DELHI: Enhancing economic freedom for individuals and small businesses is the most important policy priority to define and bolster India’s medium-term growth prospects, a finance ministry document said Friday.Amid this new and emerging global reality, the best way to succeed with these structural reforms is to start relying on the internal engines and domestic…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has directed registration of FIR against the former SHO of Jyoti Nagar police station in the case of a group of men being forced to sing the national anthem and Vande Mataram while lying injured during the 2020 Delhi riots. The court said the cops had “engaged themselves in hate…
NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented move, Rashtrapati Bhavan Friday deplored Sonia Gandhi’s comment that President Droupadi Murmu had got tired delivering her address to Parliament’s joint sitting while PM Modi said the remarks on a tribal woman smacked of the arrogance of the “dynasty”, reports Akhilesh Singh.A Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson called Sonia’s remarks “in poor…
NEW DELHI: PM Modi on Friday sought “special blessings” of Goddess Lakshmi for the middle class and poor, fuelling expectations that finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman may give relief to taxpayers and announce more welfare measures for the needy.“Today, at the beginning of the Budget session, I bow to Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity. And on…
NEW DELHI: Two days after many died in the stampede at Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj, partly blamed on alleged restrictions to facilitate visit of important dignitaries, SC Friday said it agreed with the PIL petitioner that there should not be any special arrangement for VVIP darshans at temples and religious places, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra. A…
VARANASI/LUCKOW: Ten pilgrims returning to their homes after a holy dip during the Maha Kumbh were killed in two separate road accidents in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, eight of them falling off the upper deck of a vehicle converted into a double-decker and being crushed under the wheels of a truck, report Rajeev Dikshit &…
