NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday held that telecom companies cannot claim ownership over spectrum allocated to them by govt and the natural resource cannot be subject to insolvency and liquidation process of a bankrupt telecom company.A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and A S Chandurkar rejected the plea of banks, which submitted that…
BENGALURU: Bengaluru-based space start-up GalaxEye has signed a channel partnership agreement with Space PSU NewSpace India Limited (Nsil), marking the first time the State-owned company has partnered with a domestic private player to distribute satellite data.Under the agreement, Nsil will resell high-resolution OptoSAR data generated by GalaxEye’s own satellites. GalaxEye’s upcoming spacecraft will be folded…
NEW DELHI: Coal and mines minister G Kishan Reddy on Thursday launched the second round of auctions for exploration licences covering 11 blocks of critical and deep-seated minerals across eight states. The licences will allow exploration of rare earth minerals in Telangana, Rajasthan and Odisha, along with diamond, vanadium, titanium and other minerals in additional…
Arundhati Roy (File photos) NEW DELHI: Author Arundhati Roy has announced that she will not attend the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), where a film she wrote nearly four decades ago is scheduled to be screened in the festival’s Classics section. Roy’s screenplay In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, written 38 years ago, was…
NEW DELHI: An analysis by the Association for Democratic Reforms shows that the 10 electoral trusts which have declared receiving contributions during FY 2024-25, received a total amount of Rs 3,826.3 cr from corporates and individuals and distributed almost the equivalent amount to various political parties. BJP accounted for 82.5% (Rs 3,157.6 cr) of the…
NEW DELHI: A heated exchange broke out between Haryana minister Anil Vij and Kaithal Superintendent of Police Upasna during a district grievance redressal meeting on Friday after the officer declined to suspend a policeman in a land-related case, saying she did not have the authority to do so.The incident occurred in Kaithal where Vij, who…
French President Emmanuel Macron, Crown Prince of Abu DhabiSheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Brazil President Lula Da Silva (Images/Agencies) NEW DELHI: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday released the list of countries whose leaders will attend the India–AI Impact Summit 2026, to be held in the national capital next…
Auli witnessed the inauguration of the Shitalkin Winter Carnival and the National Skiing Championship on Friday.Uttarakhand Minister Satpal Maharaj inaugurated the games by lighting the ceremonial lamp. A total of 17 teams are participating in the Winter Carnival and the National Skiing Championship at the world-famous Auli.More than 300 players are taking part in these…
95 years of Delhi (Representative Image: Created with AI) The national capital, New Delhi, turns 95 today — a milestone that links two defining moments in the city’s history.On this very date, when Lord Irwin moved the imperial administration into the Viceroy’s House, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the relocation of the PMO…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday quoted Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib to launch a sharp counterattack on the Samajwadi Party in the assembly. The CM said Uttar Pradesh’s image of fear and disorder did not emerge overnight but was the result of earlier political culture that “frightened daughters and forced traders…