JAMMU: In the J&K assembly, BJP members miss no opportunity to corner the Omar Abdullah govt over a host of issues. Outside the House, however, some of the party MLAs generously praised the chief minister on Friday over his budgetary allocation for the annual Amarnath Yatra.“Our CM’s move to allocate Rs 180 crore for Amarnath…
BENGALURU: Bengaluru-based space start-up GalaxEye has signed a channel partnership agreement with Space PSU NewSpace India Limited (Nsil), marking the first time the State-owned company has partnered with a domestic private player to distribute satellite data.Under the agreement, Nsil will resell high-resolution OptoSAR data generated by GalaxEye’s own satellites. GalaxEye’s upcoming spacecraft will be folded…
NEW DELHI: Coal and mines minister G Kishan Reddy on Thursday launched the second round of auctions for exploration licences covering 11 blocks of critical and deep-seated minerals across eight states. The licences will allow exploration of rare earth minerals in Telangana, Rajasthan and Odisha, along with diamond, vanadium, titanium and other minerals in additional…
Arundhati Roy (File photos) NEW DELHI: Author Arundhati Roy has announced that she will not attend the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), where a film she wrote nearly four decades ago is scheduled to be screened in the festival’s Classics section. Roy’s screenplay In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, written 38 years ago, was…
HOSHIARPUR: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) staged protests across Punjab on Friday outside the district Congress committee offices, responding to alleged remarks made by Leader of the Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa against state minister Harbhajan Singh.Led by party leaders, including ministers and MLAs, AAP members held sit-in demonstrations and raised slogans condemning Bajwa’s comments. In…
NEW DELHI: Ladakh chief secretary Ashish Kundra on Friday clarified on social media platform X that the February 4 discussions in the high power committee (HPC) on Ladakh, comprising representatives of the home ministry and Ladakh bodies like Apex Body Leh (ABL) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) — were wholesome and constructive, and that the…
NEW DELHI: A heated exchange broke out between Haryana minister Anil Vij and Kaithal Superintendent of Police Upasna during a district grievance redressal meeting on Friday after the officer declined to suspend a policeman in a land-related case, saying she did not have the authority to do so.The incident occurred in Kaithal where Vij, who…
PM Modi with Union ministers Manohar Lal and Jitendra Singh during the inaugural programme of the ‘Seva Teerth’ and two Kartavya Bhawans. (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated two new Kartavya Bhawans and released a commemorative postage stamp and coin on Friday, hours after shifting to his new office, “Seva Teertha.” The…
French President Emmanuel Macron, Crown Prince of Abu DhabiSheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Brazil President Lula Da Silva (Images/Agencies) NEW DELHI: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday released the list of countries whose leaders will attend the India–AI Impact Summit 2026, to be held in the national capital next…
NEW DELHI: Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel on Friday said the party’s immediate focus was on consolidating its organisation and rallying behind Maharashtra deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar, who is set to assume charge as the NCP’s national president in the coming fortnight following the death of Ajit Pawar.Patel said Sunetra Pawar…
