PM Modi emphasised ‘safety, security and future of the youth’, said Rijiju NEW DELHI: PM Modi Tuesday said govt is taking measures to make the exam system “foolproof” and called for shunning partisan politics over paper leaks that have surfaced in several states and under different dispensations, sending out a message of firm intent to…
Nitish Kumar Reddy (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s ODI and Test captain Shubman Gill expressed concern over his team’s fitness standards after the ODI series defeat in England. A string of players breaking down before or during series has repeatedly left the team hamstrung over the past year. Gill suggested that India might be missing…
Supporters gather at CJP’s camping site at Jantar Mantar on Tuesday NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday expressed reluctance to entertain a PIL seeking its intervention to curb question paper leaks in competitive examinations and to protect students’ interests, saying the scope of the plea was too vast.“What can the court do? How much the court…
Ben Stokes (Image credit: X) NEW DELHI: Just days after retiring from international cricket, Ben Stokes showed he still has plenty left in the tank. Playing his first match as a former England cricketer, Stokes scored an unbeaten 108 to guide Durham to a five-wicket win over Derbyshire in the One-Day Cup at Derby.The century…
Trump said the move was intended to encourage companies to manufacture generic medicines domestically US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a phased tariff regime on imported generic medicines, saying they will continue to enter the United States duty-free for two years and then steep tariff hikes aimed at bringing pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the…
The exercise brought together 254 participants from 26 countries NEW DELHI: A four-day multinational maritime security training engagement, Operation Southern Readiness 26-2, commenced at the Southern Naval Command in Kochi on Monday. Hosted by the Indian Navy’s Southern Naval Command, the engagement is being conducted under the aegis of the Navy-led Combined Task Force 154…
Four Indian nationals were killed after a commercial vessel, MV Golden Leo, came under attack NEW DELHI: India summoned Russian charge d’affaires, Vladimir Ladanov, to protest the attack on a commercial vessel in Ukraine that left four Indian seafarers dead. The ministry of external affairs (MEA) said in a statement that it conveyed India’s grave…
SC set aside conviction and death sentence of an accused in Rajasthan’s 1996 Samleti bus blast case NEW DELHI: Holding that legitimacy of a judicial verdict is measured not by severity of the punishment but by the fairness of the processes through which guilt is determined, Supreme Court Tuesday set aside the conviction and death…
Trump speaks during a meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in the Oval Office at White House US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that American airlines will be allowed to resume direct flights to Lebanon for the first time in more than four decades, following talks with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White…
Harjit Singh Grewal is the second Sikh to head the body under the Modi govt after Iqbal Singh Lalpura NEW DELHI: After remaining without a chief for 15 months, National Commission for Minorities (NCM) Tuesday saw its new chairman Harjit Singh Grewal, assume charge. He is the second Sikh to head the body under the…
