Iran’s state-run shipping company said it started its first transfer of Russian goods to India, using a new trade corridor that transits the Islamic Republic, an Iranian port official said. The Russian cargo consists of two 40-foot (12.192 meters) containers of wood laminate sheets, weighing 41 tons, that departed St. Petersburg for the Caspian Sea
NEW DELHI: BJP on Saturday overcame the handicap of numbers to wrest two crucial Rajya Sabha seats in Maharashtra and Haryana in a humdinger of an outcome of a hand-to-hand combat against Congress and its other opponents. BJP’s Dhananjay Mahadik prevailed against ruling MVA candidate Sanjay Pawar of Shiv Sena, while saffron-backed Independent Kartikeya Sharma,
NEW DELHI: With the Rajya Sabha results exposing dissension and lack of cohesion among opposition parties, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday reached out to her counterparts and other leaders to participate in a meeting in Delhi on June 15 to discuss the upcoming presidential polls, which are scheduled for July 18. The
NEW DELHI: To protect people from being exploited or affected by misleading advertisements, the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has notified new guidelines for stopping them across all platforms — regardless of form, format or medium — and has put a complete ban on surrogate advertising. The new guidelines also include norms for commercials that
NEW DELHI: With the Election Commission announcing the presidential election on Thursday, the spotlight is on YSR Congress and Biju Janata Dal as the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance is just short of the halfway mark. June 29 is the last date for candidates to file papers. Voting is scheduled for July 18 and counting on
The outbursts by ex-BJP functionaries Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal against Prophet Muhammad has snowballed into a major controversy with several Muslim countries summoning Indian envoys to register their protest. Even as the two leaders are receiving death threats, the BJP took action against them. It suspended Sharma and expelled Jindal, who was Delhi
HYDERABAD: Mithali Raj, the most capped player and highest runscorer in the history of women’s cricket, India’s most successful women’s captain, and a legend who inspired many young girls to take up the game, brought the curtains down on a glittering 23-year career on Wednesday. Having made her debut as a 16-year-old in 1999, Mithali
NEW DELHI: Serving or retired three-star military officers, apart from the present Army, IAF and Navy chiefs who are four-star Generals, will now also be considered for the chief of defence staff (CDS) post, which has been lying vacant since Gen Bipin Rawat’s untimely death in a helicopter crash on December 8 last year. The
Pic: Twitter @PIBMumbai@PIBMumbai@PIBMumbai@PIBMumbai NEW DELHI: As a part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM) which marks the celebrations of India’s 75 years of Independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday released a special series of Rs 1, Rs 2, Rs 5, Rs 10 and Rs 20 coins. According to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), these
HYDERABAD: The 17-year-old son of a politician holding an important position in the Telangana government was arrested on Saturday along with his friend on the charge of gang-raping a girl in a car in the upscale Hyderabad neighbourhood of Banjara Hills on May 28. Police had picked up another suspect — an 18-year-old — on
