Home minister Amit Shah on Monday said the Union govt would do whatever it takes for the region to recoup the loss of over five decades worth of development in three to five years. “Seena taan ke keh sakta hoon ki Bharat Naxal-mukt ho chuka hai (I can say with pride that India is now…
CHENNAI: Signs of unrest within Dravidian majors after the recent Tamil Nadu assembly poll debacle intensified Monday, even as DMK president MK Stalin and AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) assured cadres the two parties would bounce back. While AIADMK veteran S Semmalai quit after 45 years, former DMK minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan announced he…
Based on a complaint by Lionel Messi’s India tour organiser, Satadru Dutta, an FIR was filed on Monday against Bengal’s former sports minister Aroop Biswas, ex-DGP Rajeev Kumar, New Alipore councillor Juin Biswas, and IAS officer Santanu Basu, accusing them of sabotaging the event at Salt Lake Stadium in Dec 2025. Dutta alleged Biswas misused…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Monday expressed solidarity with the global Tamil diaspora on the occasion of Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day.On May 18, 2009, the Sri Lankan civil war had come to an end in Mullivaikkal, a small coastal village in Mullaitivu district, following the death of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.Vijay pledged…
NEW DELHI: Despite employing one in every four workers in manufacturing, the handicrafts and handloom (HH) sector is marred by low productivity, occupational hazards, lack of formalisation, market access including e-commerce and exports, the latest study by the Institute for Human Development (IHD) in collaboration with Crafts Council of India released on Monday showed.The gross…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Patent Office has refused to grant a patent to US pharmaceutical firm AbbVie on its Hepatitis C combination therapy glecaprevir/pibrentasvir, marketed globally as Mavyret. The combination therapy is considered a key treatment for Hepatitis C, and the availability of affordable generic versions remains critical for widening patient access. “The order demonstrates…
LUCKNOW: UP CM Yogi Adityanath on Monday defended his govt’s ban on offering namaz on roads, saying prayers should be held at designated places of worship and offered “in shifts” if there is a space crunch, rather than by blocking public spaces.Speaking at an event organised by a news daily in Lucknow, Yogi said roads…
NEW DELHI: Govt’s fertiliser subsidy bill for 2026-27 may surge by Rs 70,000 crore to Rs 2.4 lakh crore because of rising import costs of urea and other fertilisers amid the ongoing West Asia crisis, officials said on Monday. There is enough stock and imports are lined up to meet the requirement of Kharif crops,…
NEW DELHI: With countries developing new defence systems at a faster pace amid ongoing conflicts, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal (ACM) A P Singh has a word of advice for Indian defence agencies involved in research and development (R&D): they must “innovate at the speed of relevance”.“We need to increase the speed because the system…
NEW DELHI: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the first Indian PM to visit Norway in 43 years, the countries upgraded ties to a green strategic partnership, signed deals for cooperation in outer space, health and technology, while announcing 8 other outcomes from his meeting with counterpart Jonas Gahr Store. PM Modi also announced that…