MUMBAI: US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose 27% tariff on gems & jewellery imports from India has put the industry on the backfoot as they expect a sharp decline in demand for their products in the world’s largest export market. This in turn could also lead to job cuts in the industry that to…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha witnessed an intense debate on the waqf bill, with leaders from BJP’s “secular” allies, NCP and JDS, both new entrants to NDA, supporting the legislationNCP’s Praful Patel was aggressive, in particular as he took on Congress and its allies over their claim that they were opposesd to the bill because it…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Thursday slammed the govt, claiming that China had taken over 4,000 sqkm of Indian territory, and also sought answers from the Centre on the issue of import duties imposed by the US, saying it would “completely devastate” the Indian economy.Speaking in Lok Sabha, Rahul said the govt…
NEW DELHI: Minority affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday refuted the opposition’s charge of the govt bulldozing an “anti-Muslim” legislation, and said the new waqf law was aimed at better management of waqf properties and to accomplish “unfulfilled tasks of previous govts”.When the bill was taken up in RS, some opposition MPs were wearing black…
NEW DELHI: India and Thailand upgraded their relationship to a strategic partnership, and announced a strategic dialogue between the security agencies, as PM Narendra Modi held bilateral talks with his counterpart Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Modi backed “Asean unity” and “Asean centrality”, saying that in the Indo-Pacific region, both countries advocate a free, open, inclusive and rule-based…
NEW DELHI: The SC judgment cancelling recruitment of more than 25,000 teachers by West Bengal govt is likely to spur on Enforcement Directorate to speed up the investigation it had to pause into cases of alleged money laundering against TMC functionaries.“The investigation, which was stalled because case was pending in SC, will be pursued with…
NEW DELHI: In proceedings that started after the waqf bill was passed in LS around 1am Thursday, the House adopted a resolution confirming the imposition of President’s rule in Manipur. Home minister Amit Shah said the situation in the state was largely under control as there had been no death in the last four months…
HISAR: Flight Lieutenant Siddharth Yadav, who lost his life in Wednesday’s crash of an IAF Jaguar in Gujarat’s Jamnagar, had got engaged barely 10 days ago on March 23 and his wedding had been fixed for Nov 2 in Haryana hometown Rewari.The 28-year-old was the only son of his parents. He leaves them behind, apart…
NEW DELHI: Over 260 passengers of a Virgin Atlantic flight from London to Mumbai have been stranded at Turkiye’s Diyarbakır airport for the past 24 hours, after the aircraft was diverted on Wednesday owing to a medical emergency, and subsequently faced a technical glitch.“VS358 flight from Heathrow to Mumbai on April 2 was cancelled after…
The bull run seems to be truly on in the Indian market, and who better to capture its animal spirits than Tyeb Mehta, the celebrated modernist who made the bull his enduring motif? Less than a fortnight after a work by his contemporary M F Husain joined the Rs 100-crore club, Mehta’s ‘Trussed Bull’ (1956)…
