Category: India

[ad_1] MUMBAI: Pratibha Pawar, wife of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) founder Sharad Pawar, underwent surgery at the Breach Candy Hospital in south Mumbai on Friday, a party functionary said.The surgery was related to her hand, the functionary from the Sharad Pawar faction said without elaborating.Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar visited Silver Oak, the official residence…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi took some time out on Friday from his ongoing state visit to France to wish Isro scientists for the Chandrayaan-3 mission on its launch day, saying that “14th July 2023 will always be etched in golden letters as far as India’s space sector is concerned. Chandrayaan-3, our third lunar…

[ad_1] AHMEDABAD: India’s first international financial services centre (IFSC) at GIFT City, is all set to take the centre stage for international deliberations on infrastructure possibilities at the G20 meetings. A session on Infrastructure Investors Dialogue at GIFT City will be held at GIFT City this week, in presence of Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel, wherein…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: BJP president Jagat Prakash Nadda will chair a strategy meeting of party leaders on Wednesday on the assembly polls later this year and the Lok Sabha elections next year.Party sources said it will be a meeting of leaders associated with the BJP’s ‘Lok Sabha Pravas‘ programme, an exercise aimed at boosting its…

[ad_1] DEHRADUN: India is witnessing economic, social, cultural and political empowerment under Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s leadership, with groundwork being laid for the country to become a developed nation by 2047, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday.Speaking at an event here on the theme “Swarnim Bhavishya”, Singh asserted that the steps taken by the…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not speaking on the Manipur crisis in his ‘Mann Ki Baat’ radio broadcast and asked when will he say or do something about the “unending violence” in the northeastern state.While slamming the prime minister’s “continuing silence”, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh also…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his monthly radio broadcast, on Sunday said Emergency was a dark era in the country’s history when atrocities were committed on those supporting democracy. In his Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast, PM Modi said that India is the mother of democracy which holds democratic values and the…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India is now once again determinedly working towards the creation of theatre commands to build an integrated war-fighting machinery in a cost-effective manner, with a “consensus” being achieved among the Army, Navy and IAF after the original plan was tweaked to address all concerns.The plan primarily is now to have three integrated…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: BrahMos missiles, drones and electronic warfare systems will soon be manufactured and assembled in the Uttar Pradesh defence corridor, Union defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday.“In the UP defence corridor, not only nuts and bolts or spare parts will be manufactured, (but) drones, UAVs, electronic warfare (systems), aircraft and BrahMos missiles…

[ad_1] GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government is expected to give an affirmative response to a law commission notice seeking views on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), a campaign pledge of the governing BJP before it stormed back to office last December.Ahead of the assembly polls, the government had announced its intention to implement UCC in the…