NEW DELHI: Ace wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia formally joined the Congress on Friday at the party headquarters in Delhi, ahead of Haryana assembly elections. Before joining the party, Phogat and Punia met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge at his 10 Rajaji Marg residence. After joining the party, Vinesh Phogat acknowledged the support she received […]
NEW DELHI: In a major setback for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ahead of the 2025 Assembly polls, former Delhi minister and its MLA Rajendra Pal Gautam resigned from the party and joined the Congress here on Friday. Gautam who severed ties with the AAP after his years of association, joined the Congress at the […]
NEW DELHI: Women-led start-ups will place India in the global arena in the years to come, Union minister Jitendra Singh said here Friday. The minister was speaking after virtually inaugurating 8 new NIDHI i-TBIs across India along with a new DST-NIDHI Website at IIT Delhi celebrating eight years of the Department of Science and Technology’s […]
NEW DELHI: Strong fundamentals have helped India pip China in the MSCI EM Investable Market Index (IMI) to become the largest weight. The world’s fastest-growing economy is also set to surpass China as the top weight in the broader MSCI Emerging Markets index too. The MSCI Emerging Markets IMI captures large, mid and small cap […]
NEW DELHI: India’s total demat accounts continue to rise, with over four million new ones added in August, as per the depositories’ data. National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) and Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL) data showed that the total number of demat accounts in the country rose by over four million in August to 171.1 […]
NEW DELHI: The government is strongly advising citizens to update their Aadhaar cards every 10 years, with a free update service available until September 14, 2024. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has extended this deadline multiple times over the past year, but there is no confirmation of further extensions. Aadhaar, a 12-digit unique […]
DHAKA: Thousands of students and others on Thursday rallied in Bangladesh’s capital to mark one month since former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted from power by a mass uprising initially led by students over a quota system for government jobs. Hasina fled to India on August 5 after weeks of violence left more than […]
NEW DELHI: August 2024 has tied with August 2023 as the hottest August on record globally, with the average surface air temperature hitting 16.82 degrees Celsius, 0.71 degrees Celsius above the average August temperature from 1991 to 2020, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The data also showed that August 2024 was […]
NEW DELHI: Amid improving bilateral ties, India and the Maldives on Friday held their fifth ”Defence Cooperation Dialogue” in New Delhi. The Indian delegation was led by Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane, while the Maldivian delegation was headed by Chief of Defence Force, Maldives National Defence Force General lbrahim Hilmy. “The meeting provided both sides with […]
NEW DELHI: A new study by IPE-Global and Esri-India has uncovered a alarming “swapping trend” in India’s climate patterns, where traditionally flood-prone areas are now experiencing droughts and vice versa. The research, which analysed climate data from 1973 to 2023, found that over 85% of Indian districts are vulnerable to extreme weather events, with 45% […]