Slams Cong For Kerala & K’taka Power Struggles BENGALURU: PM Narendra Modi called Congress “a parasite and backstabber” and attacked the party on multiple fronts at a rally in Bengaluru Sunday, accusing it of betraying decades-old ally DMK in Tamil Nadu, miring Karnataka in a tussle over the CM’s chair, and failing to even pick…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: KPCC president Sunny Joseph on Sunday said AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge and leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, will soon announce the next chief minister of Kerala from among the three contenders who have already been “interviewed” by the party’s top leadership.Speaking to the media after returning from New Delhi, where…
Staff and teachers at Raksha Anusandhan School (RAV) in Dehradun are opposing its management transfer from DRES to DAV College Trust & Management Society. This change, affecting a school partially funded by DRDO, raises concerns about potential negative changes to employee salary structures. DRDO clarified its financial support did not imply ownership or control. NEW…
BENGALURU: India’s space PSU NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) may soon be headed by a private sector honcho with the selection process for the chairman and managing director (CMD) post having entered the final leg. Sources confirmed to TOI that the next CMD of the Space PSU is expected to be from the private sector with…
SIRONJ: “Bhuri” for fair-skinned foreigners. “Tori” for restless bustle. British surveyors mapped a continent from this ridge. From here came numbers that measured the world’s tallest mountain. Mount Everest entered history but Bhuri Tori slipped out of it. Name lingered and science faded. Today, thieves measure stones here.Perched on a wind-lashed hill at Kalyanpur village…
NEW DELHI: Government has now allowed venture capital, private equity, infrastructure and pension funds to bid for highway projects under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, marking a paradigm shift since the sector was opened to private players in the early 2000s. So far, only highway developers and construction companies were eligible to bid for such projects.The…
NEW DELHI: Indian Railways is staring at higher electricity costs after the Supreme Court last week ruled that the national transporter qualifies as a “consumer” under the Electricity Act. As a result, it will remain liable to pay cross-subsidy surcharge (CSS) and additional surcharge while buying electricity through open access for its own consumption, impacting…
NEW DELHI: A light-hearted exchange between Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and a mutual fund distributor who described himself as a long-time BJP supporter has gone viral on social media, drawing widespread reactions from users across the political spectrum.The interaction began after X user Muthukrishnan Dhandapani claimed in a detailed post that Gandhi had been his…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged citizens to adopt wide-ranging lifestyle and consumption changes as part of a national effort to conserve foreign exchange and reduce the economic impact of the ongoing West Asia conflict and global energy crisis. These include cutting fuel use, prioritising public transport and postponing foreign travel to…
Passengers at the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius after arriving at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain NEW DELHI: Two Indian crew members aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise vessel MV Hondius are healthy and asymptomatic after a hantavirus scare led the ship to anchor off Spain’s Canary Islands, the Indian Embassy in Madrid…