The Amarnath Yatra was temporarily suspended on Friday due to bad weather conditions as rain lashed many parts of Jammu and Kashmir The yatra has been suspended and no pilgrim is being allowed to move towards the holy cave shrine this morning,” news agency PTI reported citing the officials. The heavy downpour, which started in...
Dinesh Arora, a businessman considered close to jailed AAP leader Manish Sisodia, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in the Delhi liquor policy case today. Last year, a city court had allowed the CBI’s request to make Mr Arora an approver in the case. The ED is yet to make a statement on his arrest....
Union defence minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday chaired a ‘Chintan Shivir’ of the ministry at which “several innovative proposals emerged” to enhance indigenisation content in domestic defence manufacturing Union defence minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday took stock of a raft of defence-related issues, including proposals to boost domestic defence manufacturing, increasing self-reliance, bringing in more...
The first IIT campus outside India will come up in Tanzania’s Zanzibar, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed for setting up of a campus of IIT Madras in Zanzibar, which is a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa. The agreement was inked...
Lens maker Carl Zeiss India will invest over 250 million euros in the country to build its largest “vision” factory in the world at Bengaluru, according to a report by Mint. The land for the facility was acquired two years ago, and its construction will start next month. The construction is expected to be completed...
Rainfall in Gurgaon on Tuesday left several roads waterlogged yet again, forcing commuters and vehicles to navigate knee-deep water at some place. The city received 65 mm rainfall till 4.30 pm, said the district administration. Wazirabad recorded a rainfall of 36 mm and Badshahpur received 36mm of rainfall. Stretches that were waterlogged included Rajeev Chowk,...
In a major organisational restructuring ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday announced new party presidents for the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and Punjab. While union minister G Kishan Reddy has been appointed the president of the state unit in Telangana replacing Bandi Sanjay while Etela...
A day after two Aam Aadmi Party MLAs were sentenced by a court here, Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president Virendra Sachdeva on Tuesday asked Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to remove “tainted” former Ministers and MLAs from his party and the Assembly. On Monday, AAP MLAs Akhilesh Pati Tripathi and Sanjeev Jha were sentenced “till rising...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Leaders’ summit held virtually on Tuesday concluded with a joint communique ‘New Delhi Declaration’; along with two separate joint statements, one on ‘cooperation in countering radicalisation leading to separatism, extremism, terrorism’; and the other on ‘digital transformation’. During the summit, the SCO Heads of State Council approved the SCO Economic...
Gearing up for the big 2024 elections, and crucial state polls this year, the Bharatiya Janata Partytoday announced new chiefs in many states.G Kishan Reddy, MP and union minister, will now lead the party in poll-bound Telangana, replacingBandi Sanjay Kumar. BJP MLA Etela Rajender, who served as the first finance minister ofTelangana, has been appointed...