NEW DELHI: Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday, without directly referring to the US tariffs, said the government is committed to...
NEW DELHI: Congress General Secretary Sachin Pilot on Friday raised three pointed questions for the Centre during the ongoing Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar.
Speaking...
NEW DELHI: Former Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Urjit Patel, has been appointed Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), government...
LUCKNOW: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s clarification on retirement has set off a fresh political debate, with Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav accusing him...
BHUBANESWAR: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday inaugurated the two-day National Conference of Chairpersons of the Committees on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes...
Venezuelan President says ready to defend ‘sovereignty’ as US military deploys warships near country’s territorial waters
CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said there was “no...
LONDON: Israeli government representatives will not be invited to attend a major London arms fair next month, a UK government spokesperson said Friday, amid...
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft has fired four employees who participated in protests on company premises over the firm’s ties to Israel, including two who took...
NEW DELHI: Lakes, once the lifeline of cities and villages, are drying at an alarming pace. Along with maintaining biodiversity, lakes help in climate...
NEW DELHI: In an as-told-to essay for Business Insider, Manoj Tumu, a 23-year-old machine learning engineer at Meta, shared insights on his career journey...
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation...
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has proposed new rules to limit the duration of visas for international students, cultural exchange visitors, and members of the...
NEW DELHI: The US government has tightened the rules for granting and renewing student visas, introducing stricter scrutiny of applicants’ backgrounds, ideological leanings, and...
WASHINGTON: Democrats in the US House Foreign Affairs Committee have slammed President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on India, saying the move threatens...
‘Distorted polarising history fed to school children’s minds’
NEW DELHI: Terming NCERT’s new modules on ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’ as “falsehoods, with a clear communal...
Calls voter deletion ‘worse than terrorism’
MUZAFFARPUR (BIHAR): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president M.K. Stalin on Wednesday joined the Congress-led ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’...
MUZAFFARPUR (BIHAR): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused the BJP of winning polls by "stealing votes with the help of the Election Commission...
NEW DELHI: Warning firms engaged in production of counterfeit fertilizers and pesticides, Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday said...
GAZA: The Israeli military pressed operations around Gaza City on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump prepared to host a White House meeting on post-war...
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is prepared to impose economic sanctions against Russia if its president, Vladimir Putin, fails to...
‘Trend more common in urban areas’
NEW DELHI: Nearly one-third of school students take private coaching and the trend is more common in urban areas,...