Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK president MK Stalin (ANI) NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Saturday launched the party’s election manifesto portal 2026 at the party headquarters, Anna Arivalayam, in Chennai, marking the beginning of preparations for the upcoming assembly elections.Stalin introduced the official email ID, WhatsApp number…
SRI VIJAYA PURAM :Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday chaired a Parliamentary Consultative Committee meeting of the Ministry of Home Affairs in Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Saturday.The meeting started at 11 am and is likely to continue till 2.15 pm.The meeting focused on issues regarding national security, disaster management, cyber security and regional…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday welcomed BCCI’s decision to instruct Shah Rukh Khan owned Kolkata Knight Riders to release Bangladesh player Mustafizur Rehman from their roster ahead of Indian Premier League.BJP leader Sangeet Som thanked BCCI for its decision and hailed it as a “victory of the Hindus of the entire nation.” ‘Very…
NEW DELHI: In a major relief for Indian students who started their medical education abroad before 2021, the National Medical Commission has clarified that those admitted to or studying a BS (pre-medical) course in foreign medical institutes prior to November 18, 2021 will be governed by the older Screening Test Regulations, 2002, and not the…
NEW DELHI: In a major move to strengthen patient safety, India has, for the first time, brought blood components used in transfusions under uniform pharmacopoeial standards, tightening regulatory oversight of blood banks and transfusion services nationwide. The step is accompanied by stricter quality specifications for widely used medicines—from tuberculosis and diabetes drugs to cancer therapies—aimed…
The tunnel would be of great strategic significance due to its proximity to Arunachal Pradesh, which borders China. (AI image for representative purpose) NEW DELHI: In a first, India will get a twin-tube underwater tunnel that will have provision for movement of both vehicle and trains, boosting faster movement of forces and ammunition in case…
AI-generated image for representation NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: In a move to track the origin and manufacturing of all batteries and help consumers get details of their life and performance, govt has come up with proposed guidelines for Battery Pack Aadhaar Number. Under this, every battery pack will have machine-readable, 21-character alphanumeric code and QR code storing…
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh JAIPUR/UDAIPUR: Defence minister Rajnath Singh flagged on Friday the alarming trend of what he described as “white-collar terrorism”, involving highly educated people engaging in antisocial and anti-national activities. Rajnath said the “white-collar terror network” behind the Nov 10 car blast in Delhi that killed 15 people illustrated the extent of the…
BENGALURU: Karnataka HC has held that even a third party can, depending on the facts of the case, challenge a lok adalat award through a writ petition if the award is alleged to have been secured fraudulently by excluding a proper and necessary party. The observation was made by Justice M Nagaprasanna while quashing a…
NEW DELHI: Underlining that an investigative agency must be given freedom to conduct a probe, Supreme Court has held that courts should ordinarily refrain from setting timelines for agencies to complete the investigation as it would amount to stepping on the “toes of the latter”. A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N K Singh…
