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NEW DELHI: Congress leader TS Singh Deo on Sunday defended Digvijaya Singh‘s remarks on the RSS‘s organisational strength, stating that Singh intended to highlight areas for improvement within the Congress party, not to imitate the RSS.Speaking with ANI, Deo emphasised that organisational strengthening is a continuous process and that the Congress should focus on its…

NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing controversy over Digvijaya Singh‘s remarks praising the RSS’s organisational strength, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Revanth Reddy hailed Sonia Gandhi‘s role in Congress leadership, citing examples of elevation of Manmohan Singh and P V Narasimha Rao to the post of Prime Minister.In a social media post on X, Reddy, on the…

NEW DELHI: The ministry of civil aviation on Monday issued a travel advisory after multiple flights were delayed due to a thick layer of smog and fog in northern parts of India.The ministry shared customer support numbers of various airlines and said, “Due to fog conditions across parts of Northern India, flight operations at select…

VADODRA: Writings by PM Narendra Modi and Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar have been introduced at Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) in a new BA (English) minor course launched under National Education Policy-2020, reports Prashant Rupera.Department of English at MSU’s faculty of arts has added ‘Jyotipunj’ by Modi and ‘Inside the Enemy Camp’ by Savarkar to…

File photo: BJP Rajya Sabha member Ananta Roy (Maharaj) JALPAIGURI: BJP Rajya Sabha member Ananta Roy (Maharaj) has left his party squirming with his remarks on Saturday that detention camps were ordered by Union home minister Amit Shah.Addressing a meeting at Adabari in Cooch Behar’s Dinhata on Saturday, Roy said, “The Union home minister has…

NEW DELHI: Six months after releasing world’s first genome-edited rice varieties, Centre may soon approve release of genome-edited mustard which has potential to produce more oil with low pungency.Developed by Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council – National Institute of Plant Genome Research, genome-edited lines in mustard are currently being evaluated under ICAR – All India…

BJP: Cong has become asset of ‘fake’ Gandhis NEW DELHI: Congress has lost its foundation and has become a private asset of “fake” Gandhi family, BJP alleged on Sunday, taking a jibe at the opposition party on its foundation day. The governing party mocked Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge – who recalled his party’s rich legacy…

File photo: Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI: Congress functionary Shashi Tharoor on Sunday came out in support of party colleague Digvijaya Singh‘s views, saying the party’s organisation should be strengthened and there should be some discipline. On Saturday, ahead of the CWC meeting, Singh had stirred a controversy by praising RSS-BJP’s organisational power as he shared…

NEW DELHI: Over the past two decades, Supreme Court has protected the Aravalis from activities that can harm ecologically sensitive zones, including in 2002 when it banned mining and pumping of groundwater within 5km of the Delhi border, and subsequently banned illegal mining in Haryana and Rajasthan.Even the PMO, on two occasions in April 2014…

Defence Laboratory, Jodhpur(DLJ), DRDO handed over Camouflage Pattern Generation Software Sigma 4.0 (CPGSS4.0) and a full-scale Multispectral Signature Tank Mock-up to CME, Pune (Picture credit: DRDO) NEW DELHI: According to Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’, “all warfare is based on deception.”In the wake of the Pakistan conflict in May when the enemy forces attempted…