[ad_1] PM Modi and US President Donald Trump (File photo) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on early Wednesday thanked US President Donald Trump for his phone call and warm Diwali greetings. PM Modi also described India and the United States as “great democracies” and emphasised the need to remain united in the fight against…
[ad_1] Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Bihar chief ministerNitish Kumar on Tuesday reflected on his past alliances with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), saying he had joined the party “because of circumstances.” Reaffirming his commitment to the NDA, he said he is “back in NDA for good.” He also criticised the…
[ad_1] Rajasthan’s Thar desert is glowing with solar panels, powering India’s clean energy dreams. But behind the boom lies a quieter story that goes unsaid — of vanishing camels, felled khejri trees, and fading pastoral lifeThe Thar desert is dancing, but not to the tune it once knew. Ever since Barmer struck oil in 2004,…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: While flagging security issues faced by Indian diplomats in Canada, India’s new High Commissioner to Canada Dinesh Patnaik has rejected as politically motivated allegations made by both the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and former prime minister Justin Trudeau that linked Indian diplomats to homicide and extortion.In an interview to CTV News,…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: While Malaysian authorities said PM Narendra Modi is likely to attend Asean-East Asia summit and related meetings in Kuala Lumpur later this week, an official confirmation by India is still awaited.US President Donald Trump said this week he’s going to travel to Malaysia for the meetings, raising the possibility of a meeting…
[ad_1] PUNE: Bronze Age traders crossing Gujarat stopped at well-organised roadside facilities that offered shelter, food, security and stables for their pack animals.A new multidisciplinary study by Pune-based Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), New Delhi, published in L’Anthropologie (Elsevier, 2025), has identified a…
[ad_1] In the season of the festival of lights, two rare comets are illuminating the skies over India (and the rest of the world). Both comets — C/2025 R2 (SWAN) and C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) — can currently be seen through binoculars from dark sky locations and are expected to be at their brightest this week.TOI…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The seven-member Lokpal has drawn attention by floating a tender to procure seven BMW 3 series cars for its members at a cost of Rs 5 crore. The development drew comments on social media but judicial circles pointed out that the proposed purchase of cars for the ombudsman — headed by retired…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Justice Sudhir Singh of Patna high court was appointed as its acting Chief Justice on the retirement of Chief Justice Pavankumar Bhimappa Bajanthri on Wednesday. Through another notification of the law ministry, Justice Atul Sreedharan of Madhya Pradesh high court has been transferred to Allahabad high court.Earlier, Supreme Court collegium had recommended…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: A push for social engineering in search of additional votes appears to have given way to the governing NDA focusing on consolidation of its traditional support base for the Bihar assembly polls. This turn is most telling in the significant cut in the number of Yadav candidates fielded by its two biggest…