New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): Union Minister for Agriculture, Farmers' Welfare, and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan held a detailed review meeting with Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at the State Secretariat in Srinagar on Wednesday, said a statement from the Ministry of Rural Development. Speaking at a press conference later, Chouhan emphasised that a developed Jammu & Kashmir is crucial to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of a 'Viksit Bharat'. Several important d...Read More
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police have apprehended a 29-year-old man from East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh found actively involved in a high-profile movie piracy racket. In a span of one and half year, he has recorded and leaked about 40 movies in various theaters across Hyderabad. Police arrested Jana Kiran Kumar, works as an AC Technician and residing at NGOs Colony, Vanasthalipuram, Ranga Reddy District and native of Andhra Pradesh. According to police, on June 5, police received a c...Read More
The construction of the camps has been under a cloud since early 2024 and faced scrutiny from the environment ministry as well as the National Green Tribunal's principal bench and eastern zone bench (Kolkata). The Union environment ministry's regional office in Shillong has directed the Assam forest department to take legal action against Special Secretary (Forest) M K Yadava for authorising two commando battalion camps on forest land in "gross violation" of the law, official documents show. T...Read More
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): Union Minister for Agriculture, Farmers' Welfare, and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan held a detailed review meeting with Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at the State Secretariat in Srinagar on Wednesday, said a statement from the Ministry of Rural Development. Speaking at a press conference later, Chouhan emphasised that a developed Jammu & Kashmir is crucial to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of a 'Viksit Bharat'. Several important d...Read More
Bhongir MP Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy credited the Congress government for the Central Environmental Expert Committee's decision to halt further clearances for the contentious Polavaram-Banakacherla Link Project, despite the BRS government allowing full rights to the Andhra Pradesh government on Godavari waters. "It was only after our government's serious intervention and strong objections at the Central level that the committee decided to put the project on hold," he said at a press conference ...Read More
MUMBAI - India's regulator has restrained Jane Street Group from accessing the local securities market, dealing a severe hit to the US trading firm that generated more than US$2.3 billion (S$2.9 billion) in net revenue from equity derivatives in the South Asian nation in 2024. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) said it would seize 48.4 billion rupees (S$722 million) from Jane Street, which it claimed is the total amount of unlawful gains made by the fund, according to the order. ...Read More
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): Union Minister for Agriculture, Farmers' Welfare, and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan held a detailed review meeting with Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at the State Secretariat in Srinagar on Wednesday, said a statement from the Ministry of Rural Development. Speaking at a press conference later, Chouhan emphasised that a developed Jammu & Kashmir is crucial to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of a 'Viksit Bharat'. Several important d...Read More
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): SpiceJet on Thursday acknowledged that some passengers are currently facing difficulties in reaching the airline's customer care helpline due to intermittent technical issues. The airline said efforts are underway to restore normal functioning as soon as possible. In an official message on X, SpiceJet stated, 'We are currently experiencing intermittent issues with our SpiceJet Customer Care helpline numbers. We assure you that our relevant teams are working to r...Read More
Mumbai: Lenders to Vodafone Idea Ltd are worried that the telecom operator which is trying to borrow ₹35,000 crore more may prioritize paying its government debts over its new bank loans, a person aware of the matter said. Their concern centres around the company's ability to sustain loan repayments on the proposed loans if Vodafone Idea has to pay the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues to the government. The weakest player in India's telecom landscape has been steadily posting losses since FY17...Read More
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], July 4 (ANI): Amidst the ongoing Marathi-non-Marathi row, a group of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers allegedly stormed a man's residence in the Vanaz area of the city on Thursday and threatened to assault him over an objectionable social media post targeting MNS chief Raj Thackeray. The man, identified as Kedar Soman, had reportedly posted a comment on Facebook that MNS workers found offensive and disrespectful to their leader. Enraged by the post, a group o...Read More
SRINAGAR, July 3: Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said today that the Government will establish a Clean Plant Centre in Kashmir to provide disease-resistant plants to the horticulturists in the region. Follow the Daily Excelsior channel on WhatsApp Addressing a press conference here, the Minister said local horticulture products are facing problems as imported new plants were getting infected by viruses within three to four years of being planted. Click here to watch video "...Read More
Nagpur: The Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority (NMRDA) has almost completed the Rs 132.49 crore phase 1 of the Tajbagh renovation and beautification project and is now awaiting Rs 95.87 crore to start phase 2 of the project. Under the first phase, NMRDA strengthened and beautified the main dargah, constructed a shopping complex, a choti dargah, shops, and other structures, including marble flooring. According to NMRDA sources, Phase 1 of the project received Rs 132.49 crore adminis...Read More
Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced that nearly five lakh homeless individuals in Jammu and Kashmir will soon receive housing under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. With Chief Minister Omar Abdullah present, Chouhan highlighted the near completion of existing allotments and plans for verification of newly identified beneficiaries. SRINAGAR: With chief minister Omar Abdullah sitting next to him, Union minister for agriculture and rural development Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said...Read More
Hyderabad, July 3 (UNI) Telangana Jagruthi president and BRS MLC K Kavitha today urged AICC President Mallikarjuna Kharge to pressurise the Union government to approve 42 per cent reservation for Backward Classes (BCs) in education, employment and local bodies. Kavitha, who met BC leader and Rajya Sabha MP R Krishnaiah earlier, said that the Congress government could issue an order to implement the 42 percent reservations for BCs. Although a bill was passed in the assembly, the central governm...Read More
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday announced the provisional attachment of assets worth approximately ₹131.45 crore in Spain, including a luxury yacht and immovable properties, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). These assets belong to Pavel Prozorov, a Spanish national and the alleged mastermind behind the unauthorised forex trading platform OctaFX. The attached assets comprise a commercial Italian-model luxury yacht cruising in the Western Mediterranean, ...Read More
Srinagar, July 3: In a significant push towards greater transparency and efficiency in public services delivery, Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, today emphasised upon all the concerned departments to embark on a time-bound ambitious drive to complete Aadhaar seeding for the remaining beneficiaries within the next two months. This critical initiative aims to ensure that the benefits directly reach the deserving, effectively eliminating the role of middlemen. The meeting was attended by the Admini...Read More
NEW DELHI, 3 Jul: In a snub to China, Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday asserted that the decision on the incarnation of the Dalai Lama would be taken by the established institution and the leader of Tibetan Buddhist himself and no one else. This is the first reaction by a senior government functionary on the comments of the Dalai Lama on his successor. On Wednesday, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama said that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue and only the Gade...Read More
Srinagar, Jul 03: The Communist Party of India (Jammu and Kashmir) has called for the immediate restoration of statehood. It also alleged that the newly formed political alliance was "another attempt" by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to "install a proxy" in the valley. In a key meeting held at the party headquarters here, the CPI reiterated its demand for the restoration of statehood, a commitment repeatedly made by the central government on the floor of Parliament. "The government has even...Read More
Delhi/Hyderabad, July 3 (Maxim News): In a renewed move to curb cross-border digital influence, India has once again blocked access to the social media accounts of several Pakistani celebrities, citing national security concerns and public outrage following the Pahalgam terror attack earlier this year. Here To Join Us On WhatsApp The social media accounts -- previously unblocked on Wednesday -- were swiftly restricted again on Thursday morning after Indian netizens expressed anger over their r...Read More
New Delhi: The trade negotiations between India and the United States are reportedly nearing an important deal, with both countries working towards finalising an interim trade agreement before July 8. According to government sources, the deal is likely to exempt the agriculture sector from tariffs, an important demand of the Indian government. The new trade deal with the US will come as a relief to Indian farmers and the agricultural industry, a topic of discussion which had been a sensitive iss...Read More
NEW DELHI: Pharma promoters may be competing fiercely in the market, but on Thursday they all rallied behind domestically- manufactured vaccines, including those for polio and Covid-19. Satish Reddy, chairman of Dr Reddy's Laboratories, Dilip Shanghvi, promoter and CMD of Sun Pharma, Pankaj Patel chairman and promoter of Zydus Lifesciences, and Torrent Pharma chairman Samir Mehta -- industry leaders known for their media reticence -- each took to social media platforms to endorse India-made vacc...Read More
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 3 (ANI): Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has emerged as the thought leader shaping the global biodiversity endeavour, said Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Kirti Vardhan Singh. He was speaking at the valedictory session of the Animal Taxonomy Summit-2025, organised by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) on Wednesday. The summit, held in Kolkata, laid emphasis on strengthening scientific research ...Read More
Lucknow/Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 3 (PTI) It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for students in Kerala and Uttar Pradesh to interact with India's first astronaut to reach the International Space Station, Shubhanshu Shukla, and see him floating in space playing with a ball in zero gravity. They relished it. "I was so excited and happy. We had so many questions for him, and he answered many of them in detail and showed us how they float inside the ISS," Sanghavi, a Class 10 standard student from ...Read More
CHENNAI: Kicking off his campaign for the 2026 Assembly polls and seeking to widen his party's footprint in the state, Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Thursday went door to door in the city as part of their Oraniyil Tamil Nadu campaign, which was launched to enrol minimum 30% voters per booth and reach out to the two crore households in the state in the next 45 days. Stalin set the door-to-door campaign in motion by visiting houses in his Alwarpet neighbourhood. Accompanied by sta...Read More
Srinagar, Jul 3 (PTI) Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday served water to people at Jammu and Kashmir's famous Lal Chowk as part of Muharram tradition. Chouhan, who is on a two-day official visit to Kashmir, distributed water to the passersby at City Commercial nerve centre Lal Chowk. Talking to reporters, the minister said that it was a touching experience to be a part of the Muharram tradition by distributing water to people. Chouhan also spoke about the Central gov...Read More
NEW DELHI: The Pakistan Hockey teams for the forthcoming Asia Cup tournament in Bihar's Rajgir and FIH men's Junior World Cup later in Tamil Nadu's Madurai are going to be allowed to participate, sources in the government confirmed, while stating that any attempt to block participation would lead to contravention of the Olympic Charter. The sources said that the clearance for allowing the Pakistani teams to come to India was given by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Ministry of Home A...Read More
Guwahati: The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has directed Assam's Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) to initiate legal proceedings against Special Chief Secretary MK Yadava for unauthorized diversion of 11.5 hectares of forest land in the Damcherra Innerline Reserve Forest in Hailakandi district of Barak Valley. Yadava, who was then serving as PCCF and Head of Forest Force (HoFF), had approved the use of the forest land by the Assam Police Housing Corpor...Read More
Bhubaneswar: Zeenat, the three-year-old tigress from Maharashtra brought to Odisha's Similipal last year under translocation project, is believed to be pregnant after mating with a melanistic male tiger named T-12 Mahabal in May this year. If her pregnancy is confirmed, Zeenat would deliver cubs around August or September this year, said Prem Kumar Jha, Odisha's Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife). Love blossomed after Zeenat was released into the wild in April this year. She made...Read More
New Delhi (AsiaNews) - Indian authorities have tightened security measures during Amarnath Yatra, the Hindu pilgrimage that begins today in Jammu and Kashmir. Security agencies are on enhanced alert following an attack on 22 April in Pahalgam, when more than two dozen people were killed, mostly tourists. Thousands of people from all over the country are expected to attend the event. For Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government, the goal is not only to ensure the safety of pilgrim...Read More
Ramnagar: (Uttarakhand): The tiger population is rising consistently in the Corbett Tiger Reserve and the forest fringes around it. These days, many tigresses are sighted frequently with their cubs roaming in the forests. This is a big achievement for the forest department but poses a serious challenge, as well. Tigers increased in Corbett and Forest Division: There are more than 260 adult tigers in the Corbett Tiger Reserve at present. Cubs less than two years of age are not included in this ...Read More