External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son on Monday and discussed ways to boost cooperation in the areas of trade, energy, defence and maritime security while also sharing perspectives on the Indo-Pacific region. Jaishankar and Son jointly unveiled the commemorative stamps celebrating 50 years of establishment of diplomatic ties between...
The Allahabad High Court on Monday acquitted Surender Koli and Maninder Singh Pandher in the infamous Nithari serial killings case in Noida for lack of evidence. Both had been sentenced to death on charges of rape and murder. A total 19 cases had been lodged against businessman Pandher and his domestic help Koli in 2007....
The air quality in the national capital on Sunday morning was recorded in the ‘poor’ category with an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 245. According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research, Safar-India, the AQI near Anand Vihar was recorded at 345 in the ‘very poor’ category, similarly, the AQI at...
Union Minister, Dr. Jitendra Singh on Saturday said, after the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission and the unlocking of Space sector by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, ‘sky is not the limit’ for India’s Space journey.Dr. Jitendra Singh was delivering the inaugural cum keynote address at ‘Campus Dialogue’ on Chandrayaan 3 under the theme ‘Viksit Bharat @2047’ at...
Israel’s northern border with Lebanon is often tense, the legacy of past conflicts. But as Israel readies to invade Gaza, its army faces the threat of a two-front war. Repeated fire in recent days has claimed lives on both sides of the UN-patrolled border between Lebanon and Israel, which remain technically at war. If Israel...
The country’s first electronic chip manufacturing plant is expected to be in place within a year, according to Union Telecom and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. The government has initially earmarked $ 10 billion incentive for setting up a semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem in the country including a wafer fabrication plant. The wafer fabrication plants are the...
Delhi BJP workers demonstrated outside the Aam Aadmi Party office under the leadership of State President Virendra Sachdeva and Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri. Addressing the demonstration, Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva said that Arvind Kejriwal government is a government of lies, corruption, nepotism and ostentation. The barricades installed by the...
The first batch of around 230 Indians are expected to return to India from Israel on a charter flight on Friday morning, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday. India launched Operation Ajay to facilitate the return of those Indians who wish to come back home as a series of brazen attacks on...
The Delhi High Court on Thursday commuted the death penalty awarded to Ariz Khan following his conviction in the sensational 2008 Batla House encounter in which decorated Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma died to life term. A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Amit Sharma upheld a trial court order convicting Khan of the...
Delhi Metro has introduced a QR code-based ticketing facility through the Paytm app across all lines, officials said today. This expansion of the innovative service was inaugurated by Vikas Kumar, the Managing Director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), according to an official statement. With this new feature, commuters can now get the mobile QR...