The Donald Trump administration on Wednesday (local time) asked Pentagon to cut down its budget by 8% annually or by $290 billion withing the next five years.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to draft deep budget reductions, according to The Washington Post, which cited a memo on the matter.The Pentagon’s 2025 budget stands at…
NEW DELHI: Automobiles are among the list of items identified by the commerce department for consultations with other departments and ministries ahead of negotiations for the proposed bilateral trade agreement with the US – an indication that govt is seeking feedback for a possible duty cut for bikes and cars such as Harley Davidson and…
NEW DELHI: Tesla is likely to import cars from its German factory and will skip shipping them from China in view of concerns raised by govt.As it prepares to begin sales in India – initially through the import route and thereafter through local manufacturing – the electric carmaker is now being approached by a host…
BENGALURU: India will not build a large rocket for its planned crewed mission to the Moon, but instead rely on multiple launches and satellite docking technology, as per Isro’s current plans for the mission targeted for 2040.“One option is to build a huge rocket and take a single module. But what will you do with…
HYDERABAD: A man who had filed a case against BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao and others, accusing them of being responsible for the collapse of some piers of the Medigadda barrage, was stabbed to death by two unidentified assailants in Bhupalapally town of Telangana‘s Jayashankar-Bhupalapally district on Wednesday night, reports Shiv Kumar Pinna. Police said…
MUMBAI: The first biopic on Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) founder Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (1817-1898) has been released by an OTT platform internationally, but national broadcaster Doordarshan has refused to telecast/stream it on Prasar Bharati (PB) OTT. The film ‘Sir Syed Ahmed Khan: The Messiah’ was unveiled by AMU vice-chancellor Naima Khatoon with much fanfare…
NEW DELHI: A high-level committee on disaster risk reduction headed by home minister Amit Shah has approved Rs 1,555 crore of additional central assistance to five states affected by floods, landslides and cyclonic storm during 2024.Andhra Pradesh is the major recipient with Rs 608 crore approved for it towards disaster mitigation and response. The central…
LUCKNOW: Days after NGT flagged the high faecal coliform levels in the Ganga and Yamuna rivers in Prayagraj during the ongoing Maha Kumbh, UP CM Yogi Adityanath asserted in the assembly on Wednesday that the water at the Sangam was fit for both “snan” (bathing) and “aachman” (ritual drinking).Replying to a discussion on the Maha…
After threatening penal action against medical colleges that did not pay stipend to MBBS interns or doctors doing post graduate training, National Medical Commission (NMC), has done an about-turn saying that it is up to state authorities to take action. However, the Maintenance of Standards of Medical Education Regulations 2023 gazetted in Sept 2023, give…
MYSURU: Lokayukta Police gave a clean chit Wednesday to Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, his wife Parvathi and two other co-accused in the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (Muda) land-swap case, saying the charges levelled by petitioner Snehamayi Krishna against them “could not be substantiated”.However, Siddaramaiah, for whom the case posed a challenge to his pre-eminence within the…
