External affairs minister S Jaishankar recently broke his silence on the ongoing diplomatic row with the Maldives saying it can’t be guaranteed that every country will support or agree with India all the time. When asked about the recent rift with the Maldives at a townhall meeting in Nagpur, Jaishankar said, “Politics is politics. I...
The Central Government on Sunday ordered a ban on non-essential construction work and plying of BS-III petrol and BS-IV diesel four-wheelers in Delhi-NCR amid worsening air quality in the region. The Commission for Air Quality Management, a statutory body responsible for forming air pollution reduction strategies for the region and their implementation, noted a significant...
Accusing the previous Governments of neglecting the remote and far-flung areas in development and welfare programmes, Union Minister in PMO with Independent Charge of Science & Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh today said that these areas received due attention during Narendra Modi Government in last over nine and half years. Talking to reporters here today during...
Delhi and its surrounding areas experienced earthquake tremors on Thursday afternoon. The National Capital Region, including Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Gurugram, also felt the earthquake tremors. According to the National Center for Seismology, the nodal agency of the Government of India for the monitoring of earthquake activity, the tremors had its epicentre in Afghanistan. Earthquake...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday (January 11) discussed the “United States and India’s shared concerns over the reckless Houthi attacks in the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, which threaten the free flow of commerce, endanger innocent mariners, and violate international law”. The US has...
Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh presented “Indian of the Year” Award for the year 2023 in the category ‘Outstanding Achievement’ to Team Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).The award, instituted by a national TV channel, was received by ISRO Chairman S. Somnath and Project Director of Chandrayaan 3, Dr P.Veeramuthuvel, at a glittering ceremony here on...
Suchana Seth – the Bengaluru CEO accused of killing her four-year-old son amid a custody dispute with her husband – will undergo a routine medical examination later today, sources told NDTV Thursday morning. Ms Seth, 39, will also be given a psychological examination, police sources said, as authorities try to unravel the sequence of events between...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Thursday that 100 chartered planes will land in Ayodhya on January 22 on ‘Pran Partishtha Day’. “Around 100 chartered planes will land at the Ayodhya airport on 22nd January to attend the ‘pran pratishtha’ ceremony of the Ram Temple. This will also show us the path of...
After Rashtrapati Bhawan, in a first, it is the newly constructed Parliament House Complex that will witness Tulips blooming on its premises. Following a conversation between the Speaker Lok Sabha and Delhi LG, VK Saxena, wherein the latter offered and requested that Tulips be planted at the new Parliament Building, the New Delhi Municipal Council...
The game, set and match in Maharashtra went in favour of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde today as Speaker Rahul Narwekar declared that his faction was the “real Shiv Sena” and the MLAs of his camp cannot be disqualified. Uddhav Thackeray did not have the power to remove Eknath Shinde from Shiv Sena and the copy...