NEW DELHI: Amid reports that China provided tech assistance to Pakistan in the military conflict that followed India’s Op Sindoor last year, the govt urged China to introspect about the likely reputational cost of backing terrorist infrastructure. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that the reports had only corroborated what was already known.“Operation Sindoor…
SRINAGAR: PDP’s Iltija Mufti, the daughter of former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti, Tuesday blamed the governing NC for the suspension of her social media accounts, alleging that the party was acting in collusion with the BJP to target its critics.“X has withheld my account. Usually, they send an email, but in my case, there has…
JAMMU: A court in Jammu on Monday remanded five people, including two Pakistani nationals, in 25-day judicial custody in an NIA case related to terror activities.Earlier, police probing logistical support for terror activities had intercepted a bike in Srinagar and seized a grenade and 15 bullets from the possession of Mohammad Naqeeb Bhat.His interrogation led…
External affairs minister S Jaishankar will host his Iranian counterpart Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Friday for bilateral talks, hoping to address some of India’s concerns related to energy and connectivity. While the ministers have spoken on multiple occasions since the conflict in the West Asia region started on February 28, this will be their first…
NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari shared a cozy moment from the swearing-in ceremony of the Assam government. Along with the exchange the two leaders also possibly alluded towards a shared problem of the two states, that being of the infiltrators.Photos posted by Suvendu Adhikari on…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday recorded his dissent with the proceedings to pick the next director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), alleging that he was not provided with the self-appraisal reports of the candidates and that the government’s choice was therefore “pre-decided.”As leader of opposition, Rahul Gandhi…
NEW DELHI: Amid rapid expansion of artificial intelligence in healthcare, Vice President C. P. Radhakrishnan on Tuesday told graduating students at the 51st convocation of AIIMS that no technology could replace “the moral weight of a doctor’s presence at the patient’s bedside”.Addressing students at Bharat Mandapam, the Vice President said AIIMS Delhi was no longer…
Tamil Nadu chief minister Vijay In 2019, 17 Karnataka MLAs – 14 from the Congress and 3 from the JD(S) – resigned from the assembly, bringing down the then HD Kumaraswamy government. The resignations paved the way for BJP’s Yediyurappa to take over as state’s chief minister.Interestingly, in this change of guard the resignations were…
NEW DELHI: In a significant ruling on Tuesday, the Supreme Court said a qualified woman’s decision to pursue her profession and create a stable environment for her child cannot be treated as “cruelty” or “desertion” in a marriage, setting aside what it called the “regressive” and “ultra-conservative” findings of lower courts in a matrimonial dispute,…
NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday launched two new services including AI-enabled monsoon advance forecasting system that will provide progress of the seasonal rainfall and “localised weather information” up to four weeks in advance to support farmers across 16 states and more than 3,000 sub-districts.The second product, on the other hand, relates…