American forces carried out a “defensive” air strike against combatants who were attempting to launch drones deemed a threat to US and allied troops, according to a US official. This strike, reported by Iraqi sources to have resulted in at least four deaths, is the first by American forces in Iraq since February. During that…
NEW DELHI: Commerce & industry minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday ruled out an immediate rethink of India’s stance on Chinese investment, while slamming UPA‘s economic policies, which had made the country dependent on imports and investments from the neighbouring country.Amid demands from industry for a review of the visa regime for Chinese professionals, the Economic…
MEPPADI (WAYANAD): Kerala’s worst natural disaster since the 2018 floods struck the state’s hilly Wayanad region early Tuesday when two monster landslides in as many hours buried a small town and several plantation villages, killing 126 people, injuring 196, and leaving around 100 people marooned or missing in swathes of slush, mud and misery triggered…
The first edition of the Constitution of India – considered a work of architecture rather than art – was sold for Rs 48 lakh, its highest price so far, at an auction recently. The rare book, one of the only 1,000 copies made by Survey of India Offices in Dehradun and published by Centre in…
NEW DELHI: In 1928, Indian hockey embarked on a journey that got written and rewritten in ‘golden’ words, where the team won medals for 10 Olympics in a row. The 44-year run of consecutive podium finishes included a period of 28 years that saw a couple of World Wars, India getting independence and six Olympic…
MUMBAI: University research centres across India are seeing a series of cancelled work orders following the govt’s decision to hike customs duty on laboratory chemicals from 10% to 150%.The move announced in the recent Budget has thrown research budgets at premier labs out of shape. All research labs, barring those for physics and maths, buy…
NEW DELHI: Tata group‘s bid to acquire a majority stake in Chinese smartphone giant Vivo’s India business may have stalled after objections by Apple, sources told TOI.Sources said Vivo (FY23 revenue: Rs 30,000 crore) was looking to offload 51% stake in its Indian subsidiary to the Tata group as part of its efforts to ‘Indianise’…
NEW DELHI: In a strong message to investors and opponents, PM Modi Tuesday said his govt was not lacking in political will to take decisions based on a “nation first” approach and urged “wealth creators to be the primary driving force” of development, in what was seen as a retort to Congress’s repeated allegations of…
Captive women stripped, beaten in Myanmar, say family members DEHRADUN: Amid efforts to rescue over 15 men from Uttarakhand abducted from Thailand and forced to work in “scam call centres” in Myanmar by alleged Chinese handlers, at least nine women from the state have now been abducted using the same modus operandi.The nine were among…
NEW DELHI: Landslides that hit the ecologically fragile region of Wayanad in Kerala on Tuesday is a stark reminder of the failure of successive govts in notifying the Western Ghats as an eco-sensitive area (ESA) – a prerequisite to preserving the terrain by banning environmentally hazardous human activities.Despite five draft notifications by the Centre since…
