'1.91 lakh hectares of forest chopped off in last 11 yrs'

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, marking World Environment Day, launched a sharp attack on the Centre on Friday, alleging large-scale ecological degradation and weakening of environmental safeguards in India over the past decade.In a post shared on X, Kharge said it was time to stop the...

RBI keeps policy repo rate unchanged at 5.25%, maintains a neutral stance.RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra says, Indian economy entered this current episode of global turbulence with much better fundamentals than in previous similar episodes. We remain confident to withstand these shocks with minimum...

Iranian Ambassador to India, Mohammed Fathali, has expressed gratitude to the people of India for their support and solidarity during the West Asia conflict, when Iran lost its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Addressing an event in New Delhi on Thursday, Mohammed Fathali said that Indians...

A fire broke out at a building in Sector 52 of the city in the morning hours, prompting rescue and relief measures, officials said.The building has a restaurant on the ground floor, while a PG facility on the upper floors. Fire tenders were immediately rushed to the spot to control the situation,...

Wipro Technologies on Friday issued a statement expressing its commitment to employee welfare, dignity and a safe workplace, while stating that it is fully cooperating with authorities in an ongoing matter under investigation in Pune.The case pertains to allegations made by a former woman...

The chargesheet in a TCS sexual harassment and alleged forcible conversion case in Nashik has brought to light what investigators termed an orchestrated plan by the accused to target the victims. One of them alleged that she was made to watch videos of Pakistani Islamic cleric and preacher Tariq...

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that any killing of US troops by Iran would be a good reason to restart war.Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said, If they killed US Troops, it would be a good reason to do so...There is no navy, no air force, we have wiped out their...

United States President Donald Trump said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a good friend and expressed confidence that the United States and India would reach a trade agreement.We will get to a deal because I like your prime minister a lot. He is a good friend of mine. We get along great, and...

Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday spoke through video call to the parents of Ankita Bhandari, the 19-year-old receptionist of an Uttarakhand resort who was killed in September 2022.During the interaction, Bhandari's parents expressed their...

Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Thursday allocated portfolios to the 13-member Cabinet sworn in a day before, retaining the finance and personnel departments with himself and assigning key ministries to his senior colleagues.There was however, some discontent over portfolio...