File photo: US vice president JD Vance speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force Two US vice president JD Vance has said Iran must make a “meaningful” reduction in its nuclear enrichment capacity for Washington to agree to an end to the seven-month war.In an exclusive interview with Reuters, Vance said the US remained open…
PM offers prayers at Shri Vinayak Temple in Delhi NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday visited Shri Vinayak Mandir in New Delhi’s Sarojini Nagar, and offered prayers to Lord Ganesha as he completed 25 years as the head of a government.After the prayers, PM said on X that he prayed for the happiness,…
Pune Rural police arrested Motiram Marathe on the charge of shooting dead his grandson Abhay Marathe (33) on Monday. PUNE: A family’s account of a Lonavla lawyer’s death as an accidental shooting began to unravel after police examining his body found that the bullet wound did not appear consistent with the version they had been…
‘North by Northwest’ star Eva Marie Saint passes away at 102. (Instagram) Eva Marie Saint, one of the silver screen’s most graceful stars, has passed away. She left for her heavenly abode at 102. The Oscar-winning actress, Marie, was well known for her work in films like ‘On the Waterfront,’ ‘Exodus,’ ‘Nothing in Common,’ and…
NEW DELHI: The GST Council, which meets Thursday, will seek to slash the refund period to around 17 days, which will include a maximum 10 days for acknowledgement, beyond which it will be deemed to have been acknowledged, and seven days for processing. Currently, acknowledgement itself can take 21-45 days and the idea is to…
AJUP chief Humayun Kabir was detained for allegedly provoking tension KOLKATA/CHENNAI/GUWAHATI: Bypolls across three states and one Union territory saw high but uneven turnouts Tuesday, with Bengal’s Nandigram and Rejinagar recording 80% turnout amid allegations of rigging, voter intimidation and police interference, while polling in one Puducherry and two Tamil Nadu assembly seats and Assam’s…
BJP National Spokesperson and MP Sudhanshu Trivedi addresses a press conference on Tuesday in New Delhi about the INDIA bloc MPs’ protest march to the ECI NEW DELHI: BJP Tuesday dismissed the march seeking CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s ouster over the SIR row as the opposition venting its frustration due to continuous poll losses and said…
NSA Ajit Doval, right, during a meeting with senior Diplomatic and International Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada, David Morrison, in New Delhi. NEW DELHI: Amid efforts to conclude a bilateral trade agreement ahead of a likely visit by PM Narendra Modi to Ottawa in December, India and Canada held another round of…
Central forces stand guard as CBI searches Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann’s camp office in Chandigarh NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: CBI registered an FIR against Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s OSD Rajbir Ghuman and five others Tuesday, following it up with raids on eight locations, including the CM’s camp office in Chandigarh.The coordinated search came within hours of…
LONDON: British Indian Tory peer Lord Rami Ranger, aka Raminder Singh Ranger, has won a historic right to judicial review of the decision to strip him of his CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2024 after he was accused of breaching the parliamentary code of conduct.Lord Ranger took the office of…