NEW DELHI: Two tankers carrying Iranian crude have reached Indian ports, marking the first such deliveries since May 2019. According to ship-tracking data from Kpler, Felicity, a very large crude carrier carrying about two million barrels of oil, anchored off Sikka on Gujarat’s coast late on Sunday. A second tanker, Jaya, also carrying a similar…
NEW DELHI: Nepal PM Balendra “Balen” Shah accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to visit India even as he initiated a sweeping and radical 100-point governance agenda at home targeting VIP culture, political influence in campuses and bureaucracy, delays in public service, free healthcare access for the poor, safer public transport for women and stress-free…
NEW DELHI: People getting compensation for land acquired for national highway projects have been exempted from payment of income tax and stamp duties, a move that will bring relief to a large number of landowners and farmers. The Union road transport ministry has said that no deduction of tax at source (TDS) shall be made…
TOI correspondent from Washington: In a Netflix-era episode of Church vs State, US President Donald Trump, fresh from watching a cage fight in Miami over the weekend, has waded into a brawl with a 2,000-year-old institution that has outlived empires, plagues, and—until now—social media.In a blistering post that read like a theological review on Rotten…
MALDA: The 77-year-old wife of an 85-year-old voter died of suspected heart attack during a commotion as their family quarrelled with election officials visiting the elderly citizens’ houses to register their vote in a village in Bengal’s North Dinajpur on Monday.After the news of Tafijan Bibi’s death spread, angry locals, along with TMC workers, briefly…
NEW DELHI: In a classic case of how court proceedings are misused in matrimonial disputes– a woman agreed for a divorce and signed a financial settlement agreement for separation but she not only reneged from the promise after getting a substantial part of the money from her husband, but she also filed a criminal case…
NEW DELHI: SC on Monday sought responses from EC and the Centre on a PIL seeking the creation of a pan-India fingerprint and iris biometrics database for authentication at booth level to stop bogus, proxy, and ghost voters. A bench of CJI Surya Kant and justice Joymalya Bagchi told PIL petitioner Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay that…
NEW DELHI: Ten days after ED carried out searches at several premises in Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai on officials of I-PAC, a political consultancy firm whose clients include Trinamool and DMK, the agency on Monday arrested one of its directors and co-founder, Vinesh Chandel. He will be produced before a special court in Delhi…
NEW DELHI: Amplifying the opposition’s protest, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi Monday raised questions about the delimitation being planned by the Modi govt by arguing that it must be preceded by a census and delimitation should be “politically equitable”. She has also sought “OBC sub-quota” for women, underlining that Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had made the…
SRINAGAR: Clip-clop. Hooves strike rhythm on asphalt. Engines hush as a horse cart slips into traffic that long forgot it.Ghulam Rasool Kumar reins in his tonga through Srinagar’s old city, a lone throwback in a rush of honks and headlights. At 70, he is back on roads he once left behind when horse carts stopped…