Top Indian-American US advisor Daleep Singh discussed goals and mechanisms of US sanctions imposed on Russia during his recent trip to New Delhi, the White House has said. Singh, considered a key architect of Washington’s punitive economic sanctions against Moscow, was in New Delhi this week to discuss ways to deepen US-India economic cooperation and […]
India and Australia on Saturday signed an economic cooperation and trade agreement under which Canberra would provide duty-free access in its market for over 95 per cent of Indian goods such as textiles, leather, jewellery and sports products. The India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement was inked by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and […]
Defending champions France learned their opponents as the draw ceremony for FIFA World Cup 2022 at the Doha exhibition center on Friday as much-criticised Qatar gears up to host football’s biggest showpiece event. France, who won the title in 2018, will face Denmark and Tunisia in Group D at the World Cup, which gets underway […]
Sri Lanka’s president declared a state of emergency giving sweeping powers to security forces a day after hundreds tried to storm his house in anger over an unprecedented economic crisis.President Gotabaya Rajapaksa invoked the tough laws allowing the military to arrest and detain suspects for long periods without trial as demonstrations calling for his ouster […]
The National Medical Commission on Friday unveiled a new competency-based medical education for undergraduate course curriculum to be applicable to the current batch of MBBS students for 2021-2022 admitted to colleges in February and March 2022. Highlights of the course are replacement of Hippocratic Oath with Maharishi Charak Shapath; introduction of yoga and preferable celebration […]
The Centre’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection in March touched an all-time high of over Rs 1.42 lakh-crore due to rate rationalisation and anti-evasion steps, said the Union Finance Ministry on Friday. The last high was Rs 1.41 lakh-crore mopped up in January this year. The healthy collections helped exceed the revised budget target […]
Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Friday offered a straightforward advice to police officers complaining about harassment after government change, asking them to be impartial, saying “when you endear yourself to powers, you will have to face consequences”. He also said that the CBI’s credibility has come under deep public scrutiny with the passage […]
Union Minister for Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday informed the Rajya Sabha that the government would form the panel on the Minimum Support Price (MSP) as promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as early as possible, provided it receives names of representatives from the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM). Speaking in the House in response […]
Russia has put in place mechanisms for payments in national currencies for transactions with India and other partners and their use will be intensified to bypass sanctions imposed by the West over the Ukraine conflict, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday. Lavrov told the media after holding talks with his Indian counterpart S […]