NEW DELHI: The EU Council has approved the 27-nation bloc’s new strategic agenda with India, paving the way for its adoption after discussions with India at the next EU-India summit early next year. The fresh agenda looks to promote deepening of EU-India ties in sustainability, technology, innovation, security and defence, and connectivity, apart from global…
Rajasthan’s Thar desert is glowing with solar panels, powering India’s clean energy dreams. But behind the boom lies a quieter story that goes unsaid — of vanishing camels, felled khejri trees, and fading pastoral lifeThe Thar desert is dancing, but not to the tune it once knew. Ever since Barmer struck oil in 2004, the…
NEW DELHI: While flagging security issues faced by Indian diplomats in Canada, India’s new High Commissioner to Canada Dinesh Patnaik has rejected as politically motivated allegations made by both the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and former prime minister Justin Trudeau that linked Indian diplomats to homicide and extortion.In an interview to CTV News, Patnaik…
PUNE: Bronze Age traders crossing Gujarat stopped at well-organised roadside facilities that offered shelter, food, security and stables for their pack animals.A new multidisciplinary study by Pune-based Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), New Delhi, published in L’Anthropologie (Elsevier, 2025), has identified a 4,000-year-old…
NEW DELHI: While Malaysian authorities said PM Narendra Modi is likely to attend Asean-East Asia summit and related meetings in Kuala Lumpur later this week, an official confirmation by India is still awaited.US President Donald Trump said this week he’s going to travel to Malaysia for the meetings, raising the possibility of a meeting (formal…
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he spoke with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the two leaders talked about trade and Pakistan situation. The conversation came on the occasion of Diwali, as he went on to light lamps at the White House.“Let me extend our warmest wishes to the people of India. I…
NEW DELHI: India Tuesday restored its embassy in Kabul, upgrading its technical mission to the level of an embassy, following the announcement made during Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s recent visit to India. As per understanding between the two sides, India will designate the head of the mission in Kabul as chargé d’affaires before…
PATNA: As the nomination window for the second and final phase of the Bihar assembly elections closed on Oct 20, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar launched the NDA’s poll campaign from Muzaffarpur, but the opposition INDIA bloc allies were embroiled in conflicts and contradictions.There are at least 11 seats where INDIA bloc partners are fighting against…
JAMMU: Congress has stepped aside from the Nagrota assembly bypoll in J&K on Nov 11 for governing ally National Conference (NC), citing “the larger goal” of defeating BJP.The decision was taken Monday, the last date to file nominations for the seat where the bypoll was necessitated by the death of its sitting BJP MLA Devender…
NEW DELHI: Dragging behind anti-incumbency and infighting within the alliance, the BJP and JD(U)-led National Democratic Alliance faces a steep climb in the politically volatile and caste-sensitive Magadh and Bhojpur regions — a contest that could decide whether Nitish Kumar retains power or cedes ground to Mahagathbandhan.In the tightly contested 2020 Bihar assembly elections, the…
