New Delhi: Indian Railways has achieved a major milestone in clean energy use, and by November this year, it will have commissioned 898 MW of solar power for its operations. This is a sharp increase from just 3.68 MW in 2014 and marks an expansion...
Washington: A bipartisan group of US senators introduced legislation aimed at imposing financial sanctions on foreign entities that continue to purchase Russian oil, seeking to choke off a major source of revenue for Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine. The Decreasing Russian Oil Profits (DROP) Act...
New York: US President Donald Trump, a strict teetotaler, has agreed with his Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’s observation that he has an “alcoholic’s personality”, and both put a positive spin on it as a single-minded pursuit of aims. “I’ve said that many times about...
Washington: Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump's understated but influential chief of staff, criticised Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and broadly defended the president's aggressive second administration in a series of interviews published Tuesday in Vanity Fair. Wiles told the magazine...
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha Tuesday passed a bill to raise FDI in the insurance sector to 100 per cent, with a view to providing insurance to all by 2047. Replying to a debate on the Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill,...
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Tuesday passed a Bill for repealing or amending 71 obsolete and outdated laws, with Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal asserting that the progressive legislation would contribute to ease of living for citizens. Replying to a brief discussion on the Repealing and...
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will file a fresh charge sheet against Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi apart from others as it has taken cognisance of the latest Delhi Police FIR filed in the National Herald money laundering case, officials said Tuesday. Earlier...
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday accepted Aroop Biswas's resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event recently, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said. Biswas, who had written to...
Washington: President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking USD 10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices. The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory,...
New Delhi: Several Opposition MPs protested in the Parliament House complex Tuesday over the VB-G RAM G Bill that has become a new flashpoint with the government, as they accused the BJP-led NDA dispensation of "insulting" Mahatma Gandhi and demanded the withdrawal of the proposed...
The BJP-led NDA government’s proposed change in the nomenclature of the Centre’s flagship social welfare scheme for the poor, the...
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It is not a bad idea, it appears, if top-notch politicians get incarcerated, at least for some days, so as...
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The United States on 11 December unveiled a new strategic initiative ‘Pax Silica’ aimed at building a secure and trusted...
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Governance is hard and good governance, meaning efficient and effective governance, is harder. Optics is a poor substitute for outcomes,...
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