US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea for joint drills

Busan: The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan arrived in the South Korean port of Busan on Friday ahead of the two countries’ joint military exercise that aims to show their strength against growing North Korean threats. The joint drills will be the first involving a US aircraft carrier in the region since 2017, when […]

UN paper suggests Pakistan should immediately suspend debt repayment

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, which has been struggling with the worst floods in the past 30 years, should suspend international debt repayments and restructure loans with creditors as the unprecedented natural calamity has added to the cash-strapped country’s financial crisis, a media report cited a UN policy memo as saying on Friday. The memorandum shared by the […]

At least 4 killed, 10 wounded after blast near Kabul mosque

Kabul: At least four people are dead and 10 wounded after explosion went off near a mosque in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul on Friday, with a hospital confirming the number of casualties. A column of black smoke rose into the sky and shots rang out several minutes after the blast in the city’s diplomatic quarter. […]

Indian envoy calls on Sri Lankan PM Gunawardena, discusses bilateral issues

COLOMBO: Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay has called on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and discussed wide-ranging bilateral issues, including investments, shared heritage and capacity building in the crisis-hit island nation. India has been the biggest provider of aid this year to its southern neighbour, which is fighting its worst economic crisis in […]

US Chinese foreign ministers to meet as Taiwan tensions rise

NEW YORK: Senior diplomats from the United States and China will meet on Friday with tensions high after a visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and an explicit pledge by US President Joe Biden to defend the Chinese-claimed island. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi […]

Modi inaugurates the National Conference of Environment Ministers of all States in Ekta Nagar, Gujarat

Modi inaugurates the National Conference of Environment Ministers of all States in Ekta Nagar, Gujarat

New Delhi: The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi inaugurated the National Conference of Environment Ministers in Ekta Nagar, Gujarat via video conferencing today. Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister welcomed one and all to Ekta Nagar and the National Conference of Environment Ministers. The Prime Minister highlighted that the conference is being held when India is […]

RSS chief should participate in ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’: Congress

RSS chief should participate in ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’: Congress

NEW DELHI: The Congress claimed on Thursday that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s meeting with the head of the All India Imam Organisation was due to the impact of the party’s “Bharat Jodo Yatra” and requested Bhagwat to walk with Rahul Gandhi in uniting the country “with a tricolour in hand”. Taking forward his outreach to […]

K Raja Prasad Reddy elected Indian Newspaper Society president

New Delhi: K Raja Prasad Reddy from Telugu daily Sakshi was Friday elected as the president of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS), the media body said. Rakesh Sharma from Aaj Samaj, a Hindi language newspaper, was elected as the INS deputy president and Mathrubhumi Arogya Masika’s M V Shreyams Kumar the society’s vice president at […]

Indian Railways using newer technologies for tracking of trains

New Delhi: (RTIS), developed in collaboration with ISRO, is being installed on the locomotives for automatic acquisition of train movement timing at the stations, including that of arrival & departure or run-through. They get automatically plotted on the control chart of those trains in the Control Office Application (COA) system. RTIS gives mid-section updates with […]

Mumbai police file charge-sheet against 8 in Rs 2,500-crore drug seizure case

Mumbai: The Mumbai police’s Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) on Friday submitted a voluminous charge-sheet against eight persons in a special court in a case related to seizure of mephedrone worth around Rs 2,500 crore, an official said. The 4,818-page document was filed in the special court set up under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act […]