NEW DELHI: Declaring the 18th Brics leaders’ summit open, PM Narendra Modi stressed that UN Security Council (UNSC) reforms cannot be delayed any longer and that the “pyramid of privilege” reflected in the current global governance structure must be transformed into a “platform of partnership”.Modi focused on economic integration of the Global South in his…
BJP leaders at Brics Summit NEW DELHI: India’s success against the odds in bringing Brics countries with incongruent, even conflicting, outlooks on key global issues of contention, such as the West Asia conflict, to throw their weight behind a joint declaration comes as a timely domestic boost for BJP when its rivals are sensing some…
Harish Rawat (File photo) Dehradun: Former Uttarakhand chief minister and Congress leader Harish Rawat on Saturday expressed his desire to step down as member of the state Congress Working Committee and the All India Congress Committee (AICC) Working Committee following an Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid on the residence of his aide, Chandan Singh Jeena.The ED…
Conrad Sangma says he refused to leave residence despite mob threat in Tura Shillong: Meghalaya chief minister Conrad K Sangma met governor Chandrashekhar H Vijayashankar at the Lok Bhavan in Shillong on Saturday amid reports that eight of the 12 United Democratic Party (UDP) MLAs are planning to join BJP.Sangma, who heads the ruling National…
Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange announced a five-day march to Mumbai starting Sept 15 on the 15th day of his indefinite hunger strike on Saturday despite appeals from several ministers to defer the programme during Ganeshotsav. Jarange termed the proposed march a “decisive and final” protest, saying he…
Ritabrata Banerjee and Mamata Banerjee NEW DELHI: The Election Commission Saturday met with the representatives of both factions of Trinamool Congress, one headed by former West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and the other group headed by West Bengal leader of opposition Ritabrata Banerjee, amid their competing claims to being the real party entitled to the…
More than 1,600 years ago, as fire engulfed a Roman settlement in what is now Bulgaria, a young man appears to have made a desperate decision: he climbed inside a huge storage jar and hid. He never came out. Archaeologists uncovered his remains inside the vessel during excavations at the ancient Roman colony of Deultum…
What scares a deer away from a crop field, a wolf howl, a cougar call or the sound of a human shouting? A 2025 study by researchers from the University of Alberta and King’s University found that, among the sounds tested, human shouts produced the strongest flight response in both deer and elk. But the…
Some locals noticed the body in Seoj Dhar zone and intimated authorities (Representative image) JAMMU: Decomposed remains of a suspected Pakistani Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist was found Saturday along with an M4 rifle in Divshetar area of J&K’s Doda district, with security forces suggesting the corpse had been lying in the snow-capped hills since the man’s…
Swabhimaan actor Rohit Roy is drawing criticism for his comments against television medium and TV actors. The actor in a podcast tagged the small screen as a “dustbin medium” and said film stars have a certain level of “style and class” that television actors lack. Now, Saath Nibhana Saathiya fame Devoleena Bhattacharjee has come out…