President Droupadi Murmu received the highest civilian ‘Grand-Collar of the Order‘ award of Timor Leste on Saturday.“President José Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste conferred the Grand-Collar of the Order of Timor-Leste, the country’s highest civilian award, upon President Droupadi Murmu. The award is in recognition of her achievements in public service and dedication to education, social welfare…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Sunday announced that India and Maldives have signed an agreement to introduce Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in the archipelago nation.This comes as Jaishankar is in three-day official visit to the Maldives.Taking to X Jaishankar said, “Witnessed signing of MoU between (the) National Payments Corporation of India and…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday shared a heartwarming selfie on X, capturing a moment of him enjoying a cup of tea with his wife.This comes a day after Supreme court granted him bail in the Delhi liquor policy case. He had been lodged in…
NEW DELHI: After eight months of surveillance-based raids and a cat-and-mouse chase through six cities, Delhi Police’s Special Cell arrested “most wanted” terror operative Rizwan Ali from the Delhi-Faridabad border in the early hours of Friday. Rizwan was a member of an “ISIS-inspired” module which was busted in parts in Pune and Delhi last year….
NEW DELHI: After eight months of surveillance-based raids and a cat-and-mouse chase through six cities, Delhi Police’s Special Cell arrested “most wanted” terror operative Rizwan Ali from the Delhi-Faridabad border in the early hours of Friday. Rizwan was a member of an “ISIS-inspired” module which was busted in parts in Pune and Delhi last year….
JALPAIGURI PETRAPOLE: At least 1,000 Bangladeshis, mostly Hindus, attempted to cross over and seek refuge in India on Friday in Sitalkuchi of Bengal’s Cooch Behar district. BSF officials struggled to hold them back, with officers describing this as the largest group from the strife-wracked nation to head to India in the past few weeks.Such was…
PARIS: When Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem cleared 92.97 metres with his effortless second throw in the javelin final Thursday night, the pressure was on Neeraj Chopra to better it. The Indian believed he could do it, but in his desperation to go past his Pakistani rival’s mark, he ended up with four foul throws. Trying to…
In a big relief to Aam Aadmi Party leader and former deputy CM of Delhi Manish Sisodia, Supreme Court on Friday granted him bail in the corruption and money laundering cases related to changes in Delhi’s excise policy, and paved the way for him to come out of jail 17 months after he was arrested.“If…
NEW DELHI: The Parliament was adjourned sine die on Friday, one sitting ahead of the scheduled end of the session, with the two Houses passing several key pieces of legislation, including the Finance Bill, 2024, and the Appropriation Bill, 2024 — both crucial for the Union Budget.The session gained significance after the introduction of the…
NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist Tarsem Singh, an accused in the case relating to the terror attack on the intelligence headquarters of Punjab Police in Mohali, upon his extradition from the United Arab Emirates.Tarsem, who hails from Punjab’s Tarn Taran, is a key aide of foreign-based…
