Despite global challenges, commerce & industry minister Piyush Goyal expects exports to scale a new high this year, aided by FTAs. While remaining upbeat on growth, he tells Sidhartha that investment is flowing into several sectors. He is pushing for a review of FTAs with Asean and Japan and is cautious on China. Excerpts:How much…
NEW DELHI: Following remarks by Union minister Kiren Rijiju backing the Dalai Lama’s announcement about his succession, including the statement that China will have no role in it, India on Friday said it had taken no position on what was an issue concerning faith and religion.Interestingly, the Chinese foreign ministry, after cautioning India at a…
NEW DELHI: Two woman candidates feature among the top three in the Common University Entrance Test for Undergraduate programmes (CUET-UG 2025), results for which were declared by National Testing Agency Friday. But declaration of results has not stopped candidates, including high scorers, from questioning syllabus deviations, errors in question papers and response sheets, as well…
NEW DELHI: Delhi HC has upheld ED‘s probe into real estate firm IREO Residences and dismissed a petition accusing the agency of bias.Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora, delivering the verdict Wednesday, pulled up petitioner Gulshan Babbar for suppressing key facts and imposed a cost of Rs 1.25 lakh on him for misleading the court.Babbar alleged…
NEW DELHI: Devotion to Lord Ram, participation in the campaign to construct the temple in Ayodhya, the roots in Bihar, continued love for the cuisine and folk music, the cricket they were lured from – PM Modi on Friday wove all this into his address to members of the Indian diaspora in Port of Spain.Lord…
SRINAGAR: Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq called Friday for J&K to be made a “dry state like Gujarat” as he opposed authorities’ move to open more liquor shops, claiming such steps were “a deliberate attempt to push our youths further into addiction”.“J&K is a Muslim-majority region and sale and consumption of liquor is against…
NEW DELHI: After announcing the Annual Toll Pass for private cars on NHs, the road transport ministry has notified a new rule to reduce the toll rate up to 50% for structures such as bridge, tunnel, flyover or elevated sections. This will bring relief to commercial and heavy vehicles, particularly on tolled sections that have…
SRINAGAR/JAMMU: While inaugurating Shri Amarnath Shrine Board’s Yatri Niwas Complex at Baltal, around 92km northeast of Srinagar, J&K lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha on Friday said more than 20,000 devotees had already performed darshan at the holy cave. Meanwhile, the third batch of 6,411 pilgrims left Jammu’s Bhagwati Nagar base camp for the Himalayan shrine.This year’s…
NEW DELHI: Laying out a detailed process for uploading details of waqf properties registered with Waqf boards on the new Central Waqf Portal launched last month, the govt on Thursday notified the Unified Waqf Management Empowerment Efficiency and Development Rules 2025 dealing with the portal and database of waqf properties and the process for their…
In the hushed corridors of the International Space Station (ISS), where human voices float as weightlessly as the bodies that carry them, Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and his Ax-4 crewmates are helping decode the science of sound in space — quite literally.The Ax-4 crew recently lent their voices to the “Voice in Space” study, a…
