NEW DELHI: Govt is set to roll out a new scheme for domestic manufacturing of components that go into electronic gadgets – from mobile phones to laptops and tablets – as it seeks to replicate the success of domestic mobile production and reduce import dependence. Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw expressed the govt’s intent on Saturday…
NEW DELHI: Foreign minister S Jaishankar on Saturday justified scrutiny of Chinese investment in India, saying it’s “common sense” to do so because of the border issue and the state of relations between the two countries.At the ET World Leaders Forum, the minister said even those countries which don’t have a “special problem” with China…
NEW DELHI: CJI D Y Chandrachud on Saturday said more and more young women are choosing judiciary as their first choice of career and revealed that in the latest rounds of recruitment of judicial officers, women comprised 72% in Kerala, 66% in Delhi, 58% in Rajasthan and 54% in UP. Speaking at the national conference…
NEW DELHI: Responding to Mamata Banerjee‘s letter to PM Modi, Union minister for women and child development Annapurna Devi said West Bengal CM gave “factually incorrect” information in “what appears to be” an attempt “to cover up the delay in operationalising Fast Track Special Courts (FTSCs)”.Banerjee, first wrote to PM Modi on Aug 22 following…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday said that the victim’s family has effectively been placed under “house arrest” by preventing them from leaving their home under various pretexts and erecting barricades around the premises.Adhir visited the residence of the deceased doctor and spent a considerable amount of time conversing with…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that while voters in many nations sought change in their governments this year, Indians opted for continuity, political stability, and economic growth by electing the NDA government for a third consecutive term. Speaking at the ET World Leaders Forum, he emphasised that India is crafting a…
NEW DELHI: Tariq Hameed Karra, the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee chief, on Saturday said that the party was ready to contest all 90 seats in the upcoming assembly polls independently. But, the alliance with the National Conference was formed under a “national compulsion”, he added. He asserted that the alliance was forged to…
The Election Commission on Saturday revised the polling day for Haryana from October 1 to October 5, and accordingly counting day for J&K and Haryana assembly elections from October 4 to October 8.The decision has been taken to honour both the voting rights and the traditions of the Bishnoi community, which has upheld a centuries-old…
NEW DELHI: Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini, reacting to the Charkhi Dadri lynching case, said on Saturday that villagers revere the cow and if they sense some untoward situation then “who could stop them?”. Saini was reacting to five vigilantes who lynched a man over suspicion that he had consumed beef.The Haryana CM, however,…
NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma hit back at Tejashwi Yadav over his “Chinese version of Yogi” remark, saying the RJD leader “should have implemented a four-hour break when he was in power in Bihar”.Earlier, taking a dig at Sarma over the Assam assembly’s decision to do away with the two-hour namaz break…
