NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday interacted with government secretaries at Seva Teerth and reviewed key governance priorities, with discussions focusing on deregulation and reforms to improve ‘ease of doing business’ and ‘ease of living’, and promote ‘Aatmanirbharta’ (self-reliance). During the interaction, the prime minister called for greater use of the PM GatiShakti…
Kalyan Banerjee (File photo) NEW DELHI: Kalyan Banerjee of the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday announced that it would move court after Kolkata Police rejected its application to hold the annual July 21 Martyrs’ Day (Shahid Diwas) rally.He told reporters that the faction was discussing an alternative venue instead of…
Accused Roshan Suvarna (right) and victim Mayank Lohar NEW DELHI: The Government Railway Police (GRP) have recovered the knife allegedly used in the murder of a man by a co-passenger on a Mumbai local train, officials said on Tuesday.According to police, a viral video of the incident played a key role in the recovery of…
Growing up in the late 1990s or early 2000s meant watching the internet arrive not as a single platform, but as a world opened through web browsers.British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee created the first web browser in 1990 and called it WorldWideWeb. A few years later, Mosaic made the web more visual by bringing graphics…
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Indian healthcare professionals are urging the Indian Medical Association to back a call for the Israeli Medical Association’s suspension from the World Medical Association. Over 1,150 signatories cite the IMA’s silence on attacks against Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure and medical personnel. This move aligns with international calls for medical ethics and humanitarian law, contrasting with the…
The Supreme Court, meanwhile, directed the parties to maintain status quo NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that India’s 20 per cent ethanol blending programme in petrol is still an ongoing experiment and that the impact of the policy is expected to become clearer by next year.The submission came during a…
SP MLA Kamal Akhtar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief whip in the Uttar Pradesh assembly Kamal Akhtar resigned from his post on Tuesday, saying he was stepping down on the directions of party president Akhilesh Yadav.“I have always followed the directions of our national president, Akhilesh Yadav ji. Whatever direction he gives…
Tourist footfall at the historic hill fort reportedly risen by around 25 per cent since the incident came to light. The murder of Ketan Agarwal has sparked an unexpected trend in Maharashtra, with Lohagad Fort witnessing a noticeable surge in visitors after it emerged as the alleged crime scene in the high-profile case.Tourist footfall at…
Abdul Majid Hakeem Ilahi (Photo by R Ramesh Shankar) Amid renewed tensions between Iran and the United States following Tehran’s accusation that Washington violated a recent ceasefire understanding by carrying out strikes on Iranian territory, the prospects for de-escalation remain uncertain. The flare-up has reignited concerns over regional security, the future of nuclear negotiations and…
