NEW DELHI: India on Monday summoned deputy high commissioner of Bangladesh to India, Nural Islam, amid the ongoing border fencing row at Sukdevpur in Malda’s Baishnabnagar over infiltration. This comes a day after Bangladesh summoned Indian diplomat Pranay Verma to discuss a “cooperative approach to combating crime” in the border areas. “We have an understanding…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court rebuked the AAP-led Delhi government over its delayed response to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on “liquorgate” that allegedly observed several irregularities in excise policy and its implementation.The court expressed concerns over the government’s failure to promptly act on the CAG’s findings.“The way you have dragged your feet…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released a new poster on Monday depicting former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal as the villainous character “Mogambo,” from the Bollywood film Mr India. The BJP’s social media post on X took a swipe at Kejriwal, claiming that the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) stance against the Purvanchal region…
Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs reaches Niranjani Akhara at Maha Kumbh, in Prayagraj on Sunday. (ANI Photo) MAHA KUMBH NAGAR: American billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs – widow of Steve Jobs – reached the ashram of her guru, Swami Kailashnand Giri, the acharya mahamandleshwar of Niranjini Akhara,…
NEW DELHI: V Narayanan, who will take over the reins of Isro from chairman S Somanath on Jan 14, is the son of a farmer who rose through the ranks in India’s elite space agency to become a cryogenic engine developer and played a key role in the country’s development of a cryogenic engine –…
NEW DELHI: Focus more on creating facilities, amenities and better transportation network in zones in cities which naturally attract people and businesses, rather than developing new cities that push horizontal growth, PM Narendra Modi told top officials of housing and urban affairs ministry at a recent review meeting on urban sector, sources said.TOI has learnt…
A farmer during their ongoing agitation at the Shambhu border, in Patiala district, Punjab. (PTI file photo) BATHINDA/PATIALA: Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Sunday decided to reschedule its proposed unity meeting with the two protesting farmer forums to January 13, even as farmer representative Jagjit Singh Dallewal’s health deteriorated with his fast unto death stir…
Tamil Nadu gGovernor RN Ravi (left), and Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin does not “accept and respect Bharat as a nation and the constitution”, Raj Bhavan tweeted on Sunday after the CM termed “childish” the governor’s walkout from the assembly, protesting the playing of Tamil anthem instead…
Data shows that the annual groundwater recharge in 2024 was 446.9 billion cubic meter (BCM), compared to 449.08 BCM in 2023. NEW DELHI: Total annual groundwater recharge in the country marginally declined in 2024, compared to 2023, and so did water availability due to higher groundwater extraction last year, with northwest India, including parts of…
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s foreign affairs ministry summoned high commissioner Pranay Verma to send its message to New Delhi to advise all relevant authorities in India to refrain from any “provocative actions” that could escalate tensions along the shared border between the two countries.During the meeting at his office, foreign secretary Md Jashim Uddin conveyed Bangladesh’s “deep…
