Qutub Minar is not a place of worship and alteration of the existing structure is not permissible, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Tuesday told a Delhi court hearing a petition claiming the monument has pictures of deities suggesting the Hindu origin of the building. The plea sought permission to worship the deities. ASI said […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US president Joe Biden held a bilateral meeting on Tuesday in Tokyo, hours after the second in-person Quad summit kicked off with a focus on the Indo-pacific region, and the Ukraine war. In an address, after the meeting, PM Modi said, “India and the US partnership – in the true […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived for Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo. Besides Modi, the summit is also being attended by US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The Quad leaders summit is aimed at further bolstering cooperation among the member nations of the influential grouping and discussing […]
President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday accepted Anil Baijal’s resignation and appointed Vinai Kumar Saxena as the next Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. A statement issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan said Saxena’s appointment as the Lt Governor of the National Capital Territory will be effective from the date of he assumed charge of his office. “The President […]
The cash-strapped Pakistan government is examining the possibility of conserving fuel by reducing the number of working days, a move by which it is hoping to save an estimated USD 2.7 billion in foreign exchange, a media report said on Monday.The estimates are based on three different scenarios in terms of working days and fuel […]
AAP MLA from Patiala (rural) Dr Balbir Singh and three others, including his wife and son, were sentenced to 3-year rigorous imprisonment by additional chief judicial magistrate Ravi Inder Singh in an 11-year-old assault case here today. The court, however, granted bail to all of them on the spot. According to complainant Paramjeet Kaur, Dr […]
Prolonged high temperatures are credit negative for India, as that could exacerbate inflation and hurt growth, Moody’s Investors Service said on Monday. Over the longer term, India’s highly negative credit exposure to physical climate risks means its economic growth will likely become more volatile as it faces increasing, and more extreme incidences of climate-related shocks, […]
Days after separatist leader Yasin Malik was convicted by a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on terror funding charges, Pakistan prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday backed the chairman of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), calling upon world leaders to take note of what he said was India’s ‘mistreatment of political prisoners’ […]
Enhancing the participation and investments of Japanese firms in areas, ranging from energy to electric vehicles and textiles, figured in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meetings with some of Japan’s top business leaders on Monday. On the first day of his two-day visit to Tokyo, Modi met Softbank Corporation founder Masayoshi Son, Suzuki Motor Corporation’s senior […]
The Varanasi district court on Monday completed hearing of arguments in the the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque case and reserved its decision until tomorrow. Distinct Judge AK Vishvesha heared a civil suit in the case. The hearing began in the court days after the Supreme Court said it would not interfere with the Gyanvapi mosque […]