NEW DELHI: With coal stocks at thermal power plants stretched, govt is considering allowing the blending of imported coal with domestic supplies to keep critical plants running.Senior officials said discussions with stakeholders were ongoing and a final decision was yet to be taken. If approved, it will be the first time since 2024 that govt…
Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif speaks at UNGA NEW DELHI: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday used the 81st United Nations General Assembly to condemn Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and warn against any threat to the safety and sanctity of Mecca.He also defended Pakistan’s new defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Türkiye, while highlighting…
NEW DELHI: In a first for the road sector, govt has used waste plastic as a wet mix with bitumen to lay a bituminous highway stretch, a move that is likely to reduce imports of the key construction material while addressing the growing problem of plastic waste.On Thursday, a pilot test section was laid on…
The two leaders held a 90-minute closed-door meeting on Thursday. According to the Chinese government’s readout, they discussed the Middle East, Ukraine and the Korean Peninsula. The White House did not release details of those talks. US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to meet twice more this year, with the…
TOI correspondent from Washington: A 48-hour state visit to the United States by China’s President Xi Jinping yielded no immediate major breakthroughs but confirmed the broad impression, in visuals and much as words, that Washington now accepts China as a peer in a new G-2 formulation.For all the talk of trade, artificial intelligence, Taiwan, Iran…
President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping walk along the Colonnade of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) TOI correspondent from Washington: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington DC to negotiate trade, technology, tariffs and the future of the global economy. Instead, he got the most elaborate…
Nepal’s PM Balendra Shah addresses the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters Thursday. (AP) NEW DELHI: Nepal PM Balendra Shah called on India and China to join a trilateral Himalayan climate resilience mechanism to share satellite data, jointly monitor dangerous glacial lakes, strengthen early-warning systems and coordinate cross-border disaster response,…
The committee has urged the KPK government to restore Dilip Kumar’s ancestral home before his birth anniversary on December 11. AMRITSAR: With the ancestral home of legendary actor Dilip Kumar in Peshawar in restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province of Pakistan reportedly reduced to a fragile remnant of its past, the Saragarhi Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee has…
Heilbronner, the widow of a Munich banker, lost the work as a result of racial persecution under the Nazi regime. After the war, its whereabouts remained unclear for decades, leaving the ownership history unresolved. More than eight decades after Nazi persecution tore a painting from the home of Sofie Heilbronner, the 19th-century work has finally…
AI pilot found tipsy just before operating Zurich-Delhi flight NEW DELHI: Air India has suspended a pilot who was reportedly found tipsy when he was to operate a Zurich-Delhi flight earlier this month. The Zurich-Delhi flight of Sept 6 had to be rescheduled after the pilot was found unfit to operate the same and till…