NEW DELHI: India’s electronics sector is currently employing about 1.2 million people all over the country, as 325 to 330 million mobile phones are being manufactured every year, the government said on Thursday. The country has witnessed rapid growth in electronics manufacturing – from Rs 1.9 lakh crore in 2014-15 to Rs 9.52 lakh crore […]
NEW DELHI: From demonising an Indian neighbourhood as “Pakistan” to expressing demographic fears over conversions, from trash-talking a woman advocate about the colour of a male colleague’s “undergarments” to forbidding widows against wearing makeup, high court judges have been dropping one clanger after another. And the Supreme Court has found itself having to clean up […]
BENGALURU: A case was registered on Saturday against Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and others on the directions of a court here, following a complaint relating to the now-scrapped electoral bonds scheme. According to police, an FIR was registered under sections 384 (punishment for extortion) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) read with 34 (acts done by […]
New Delhi: There are several obvious advantages to using public Wi-Fi. Consider this – you are at a railway station and your mobile data keeps dipping to 3G, let alone offer decent 4G speeds. Connecting to the free railway station Wi-Fi immediately fixes the problem. Public Wi-Fi also comes in handy when your mobile data […]
‘Rs 1.05 crore in addition to contracted amount’ NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Jay Shah on Saturday announced that the players in the Indian Premier League will get Rs 7.5 lakhs match fee per game and a cricketer who plays all the league matches in the entire season can […]
Jammu: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday launched searches at multiple places in Rajouri and Reasi districts as part of its investigation into the deadly terror attack in June on a bus carrying pilgrims who were returning from Shiv Khori temple, officials said. NIA is conducting searches at seven locations in Jammu and Kashmir, they […]
Jammu: Asserting that the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls are being held peacefully and without any violence, BJP president J P Nadda on Friday said the people of the Union Territory have rejected bullets and chosen ballots, focusing on peace and development. Addressing a press conference here, Nadda also said Kashmir’s youngsters have joined the […]
New York: Turkish President Recap Tayyip Erdogan did not mention Kashmir in his address at the United Nations General Assembly this year, the first time he has skipped the issues since the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019. The focus of his 35-minute speech this year was the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where over 40,000 […]
NEW DELHI: The Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committees for 2024-2025 were constituted with the Congress members chairing four committees, including the External Affairs. Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi is a member of the standing committee on Defence. Each committee is a combination of members from both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. The Congress has been given […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the High-Performance Computing (HPC) system – tailored for weather and climate research, acquired by the Ministry of Earth Sciences. The ambitious project represents an investment of Rs 850 crore, marking a significant leap in India’s computational capabilities for more reliable and accurate weather and climate forecasting, particularly […]