NEW DELHI: Exuding confidence about BJP‘s prospects in Delhi polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the Union Budget presented a day earlier “the most pro-middle class in India’s history”, highlighted measures announced by the finance minister and wooed govt employees by pointing to the announcement of the new Pay Commission.“See you at the victory celebrations…
LONDON: Two Indian students in their 20s have been killed and two others remain in hospital with serious injuries after the car they were travelling in struck a tree in County Carlow, southern Ireland, according to the Irish police.Cherekuri Suresh Chowdary and Chithoori Bhargav were pronounced dead at the scene of the fatal road collision…
NEW DELHI: July 8, 2024. It was unusually rainy, hot and humid that night in Bacolod City, Philippines. The Bureau of Immigration assembled a crack team of select agents from their Fugitive Search Unit (FSU) to hunt down a high-value suspect. The target was an “Indian-Nepalese” national, the subject of a red-corner notice, located by…
NEW DELHI: ‘Gender budget‘ allocation has seen a more than 37% increase in the 2025-26 Union Budget, reaching Rs 4.5 lakh crore from the Rs 3.3 lakh crore in the financial year 2024-25, according to the women and child development (WCD) ministry.The share of gender budget allocation in the total Union Budget – presented on…
NEW DELHI: In a big boost for India’s ambitious Deep Ocean Mission, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has allocated Rs 600 crore for the Samudrayaan project, under which scientists will be sent to the depths of the ocean in a specially-designed submersible to explore the ocean floor, including the country’s continental shelf and exclusive economic…
HYDERABAD The Backward classes (BC) constitute 46.25% (categories A, B, C and D) or approximately 1.64 crore of the over 3.5 crore population in Telangana, making them the largest group, according to the recent caste survey done across the state.Also, BCs among the minorities (category E) make up an additional 10.08% (35.76 lakh), taking the…
MUMBAI: Former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak visited Parsee Gymkhana at Marine Drive in Mumbai on Sunday morning to play tennis ball cricket. The landmark gymkhana, the first such community sports club to come up on the city’s coast in the late 19th century, celebrates its 140th anniversary this month.History turned a full circle as…
JAMMU: A team of experts from AIIMS Delhi on Sunday met 11 patients undergoing treatment for a mysterious illness in J&K’s Rajouri district, which has claimed 17 lives so far, and collected samples from their sealed homes and surrounding areas in Badhaal village.No new cases have been reported in the past nine days from Badhaal…
MUMBAI: Five people, including two foreign nationals, were injured after a hotel driver steering a Mercedes lost control of the vehicle and rammed into them at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai Sunday morning.Police have registered a case of rash driving against the driver and took him into custody. Some of the injured have been…
MUMBAI: Seattle-based Indian-American economist and ex-Seattle City Council’s Kshama Sawant, who faced two e-visa rejections last year and has been waiting for an emergency visa to meet her ailing mother for three weeks, has accused the Indian govt of “harassment” and is considering legal recourse. Sawant, 51, said her repeated attempts to visit her 82-year-old…
