NEW DELHI: Amid India’s efforts to diversify its oil supplies, Venezuela’s acting President, Delcy Rodriguez, is likely to visit New Delhi this week, according to official sources. Rodriguez was earlier supposed to visit India for the International Big Cat Alliance meeting, but the event was deferred.While talking about the US initiative to sell more energy…
NEW DELHI: Air Marshal Tarun Chaudhry on Monday assumed the charge of Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Central Air Command. He was commissioned into the fighter stream of the Indian Air Force in Dec 1989.During his distinguished career, the Air Marshal has held several important operational, staff and diplomatic appointments, including defence attache at the…
US President Donald Trump on Monday said negotiations with Iran were continuing “at a rapid pace” despite fresh exchanges of fire that have tested the fragile ceasefire between the two sides.“Talks are continuing, at a rapid pace, with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.The ceasefire, reached nearly two months ago after…
TOI correspondent from London: A Birmingham employment tribunal has ordered a UK care agency to pay £30,000 (Rs 38.4 lakh) in compensation to a Kerala native it brought to Britain on a healthcare visa to work as a care worker but didn’t give him a single day of work or pay him a penny.Shabin Shaji,…
NEW DELHI: Four years after a dramatic split turned the Shiv Sena into two rival camps locked in a bitter political battle, leaders from both sides now appear to be finding common ground on one issue: the BJP.Interestingly, the very factor that contributed to the Sena’s split, its relationship with the BJP, is now emerging…
TOI correspondent from Washington: Just hours after US President Donald Trump assured Americans that Iran “really wants to make a deal” and urged “negatively chirping” critics to “sit back and relax (because) it will all work out well in the end,” the Middle East moved in the opposite direction.The three-month-old conflict lurched back toward open…
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) batter Tim David has been fined 50 per cent of his match fee and suspended for one match after breaching the IPL Code of Conduct during RCB’s five-wicket win over Gujarat Titans in the IPL 2026 final at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday.David, who scored 24 runs off 17 balls…
NEW DELHI: India has formally begun the process of acquiring 114 Rafale fighter jets from France in a deal estimated to be worth around Rs 3.25 lakh crore, marking a major step in one of the country’s largest-ever military procurement programmes.According to defence ministry sources cited by ANI, the Acquisition Wing of the Ministry of…
Sources indicate former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai is set to quit the party, after a meeting with top BJP leaders in Delhi CHENNAI: Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai will quit the party “in a couple of days” after meeting party national president Nitin Nabin and Union home minister Amit Shah in…
NEW DELHI: Amid reports of infighting, TMC supremo and former West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee hit back at rebel leaders while saying that the party is “not for its leaders but it is for its workers”. Speaking hours after TMC expelled two MLAs for ‘anti-party activities’, Mamata said that the party is “better off” without…