NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused the Congress of appointing people close to the party as election commissioners and claimed that his government had made improvements in the Election Commission.“Earlier, the Prime Minister used to sign a file and form the Election Commission. And those who were close to their families became…
NEW DELHI: The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly in the post-pandemic years, has pushed big multinationals and startups to rejig their work structure in accordance with the evolving trends, one such step being the ever-despised layoffs.While layoffs continue to serve as grim reminders about the flaky global job market, a new phenomenon called “dry…
PUDUCHERRY: Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s guarantee is false while Congress‘s guarantee is pucca, party president Mallikarjun Kharge claimed on Monday.“Has he (Modi) fulfilled his promise to recover black money stashed in foreign banks and deposit Rs 15 lakh in every Indian’s bank account? Has he fulfilled his promise to generate two crore jobs annually for…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday took a dig at Rahul Gandhi for abandoning his family seat in Uttar Pradesh and making his new base in Kerala. “A big leader of Congress has found it difficult to save the respect of his family seat in Uttar Pradesh and has made his new base…
NEW DELHI: Iran‘s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, on Monday informed external affairs minister, S Jaishankar, that Indian authorities will be allowed to meet with the 17 Indian crew members of the cargo vessel MSC Aries, which was seized by Iran’s military.This information was conveyed during a phone conversation between the two ministers on Sunday, as…
NEW DELHI: Four retired judges of Supreme Court and 17 ex-high court judges have written a joint letter to the Chief Justice of India bringing to his notice “escalating attempts by certain factions to undermine the judiciary through calculated pressure, misinformation, and public disparagement” and sought his intervention.“It has come to our notice that these…
At the stroke of midnight, on August 1, 2015, India and Bangladesh formally exchanged 162 enclaves, ending a centuries-old territorial anomaly and completing a process of land and population exchange. The 15,856 people in India living in the 51 Bangladeshi enclaves and the 922 Indians who came into the Indian mainland from Indian enclaves in…
On almost all metrics regarding women’s empowerment, Kerala is way ahead of most states. Ironically — especially for a state that has implemented 50% women’s reservation in local bodies, and where women account for 51.6% of all voters — women’s representation in this year’s list of Lok Sabha candidates, both from UDF and LDF, is…
India has successfully conducted another test of indigenous man-portable anti-tank guided missile (MP-ATGM), which has a strike range of 2.5km strike, with DRDO saying the weapon system is now ready for final user trials by the Army. The fire-and-forget MP-ATGM, which is equipped with day/night and top attack capabilities to penetrate modern armour-protected tanks, has…
CHANDRAPUR: A person died and 80 other devotees allegedly suffered food poisoning after partaking ‘mahaprasad’ at a Kali Mata temple during navratri puja in Majri in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur on Saturday. Six are critical, police said.Only those who consumed ‘boondi’ have food poisoning symptoms including diarrhea & vomiting, sources said.The affected individuals, including 30 women and…
