NEW DELHI: Government has increased the wheat procurement target to 34.5 million tonnes (MT), about 15% higher than what it had set for the current Rabi marketing season. This comes amid indications that more farmers are likely to opt to sell their produce to the government at MSP since mandi prices are lower.Recently, the governments…
KOLKATA: The Bengal assembly on Monday passed two amendment bills aimed at overhauling the legal framework governing reservations for OBCs, specifying 66 communities (54 Hindu and 12 Muslim communities) outside the SC and ST categories will be eligible for OBC quota. The new framework reduces 65 Muslim sub-groups (from the previous TMC govt-set framework) and…
US secretary of state Marco Rubio on Thursday described India as a “great partner” and said the United States wants to expand energy ties with New Delhi, ahead of his maiden visit to India later this week.Interacting with reporters in Miami before departing for Sweden and India, Rubio said the US was ready to sell…
João Cancelo/ Image: Instagram João Cancelo is on the verge of a milestone no player has reached before, with the Portuguese full-back one league title away from winning four of Europe’s so-called “Big Five” leagues, a benchmark that even Cristiano Ronaldo did not complete during his peak years across the continent. Barcelona’s position at the…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only NEW DELHI: When Aditi took the personal massager she had ordered out of the Blinkit bag, the package was unsealed. “As is the drill, I took photos and uploaded them to the app to request a return. A delivery driver arrived to pick it up,” the 36-year-old Delhi resident…
NIA has has filed a supplementary chargesheet against Pakistan-based terrorist Hafiz Saeed in the Pahalgam terror attack case, formally naming him as an accused for orchestrating the cross-border conspiracy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Indonesia, kicking off the first leg of his three-nation tour which also includes Australia and New Zealand. Police investigating the…
In a world where scientific breakthroughs often bring fame, wealth, and global recognition, Grigori Perelman chose a completely different path. The Russian mathematician stunned the academic world after solving the Poincare Conjecture, one of the most difficult unsolved problems in mathematics that had remained unanswered for nearly a century. But what made Perelman even more…
11cm in 1 hour: Deluge could have filled 30,000 pools, two-thirds of Bengaluru’s lakes BENGALURU: The squally thundershowers along with hailstorms that lasted a little over an hour Wednesday evening across central Bengaluru — hailed as the wettest April day in the city’s recorded climatological history — poured over 11cm of rain, according to India…
Karachi rangers HQ, Pakistan NEW DELHI: Pakistani security forces said they foiled a militant attack on a Sindh Rangers compound in Karachi on Saturday night, killing six terrorists and arresting another. The assault claimed the lives of four rangers personnel and was the first major terrorist attack in the city since October 2024.According to a…
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Monday emphatically said the selection of judges of Constitutional courts by the high court and Supreme Court collegiums is beyond the pale of judicial scrutiny and does not come under the ambit of Right to Information (RTI) Act.A partial working day bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Joymalya Bagchi…