Varanasi, Aug 21 (IANS) A high-level 109-member Japanese delegation is set to arrive in the spiritual city of Kashi on August 22 for a two-day visit aimed at strengthening industrial cooperation and cultural exchanges between India and Japan, government officials said on Friday.
New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that true national progress is driven by decisions whose impact is felt on the ground and which balance the needs of both the present and the future, rather than short-term announcements aimed at electoral gains.
Bhopal/Gandhinagar, Aug 21 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh Prison department and Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) on Friday signed an institutional agreement to strengthen correctional administration and develop structured mental health support for people in custody, including plans to establish Psychosocial Care Centres in state prisons.
Beijing, Aug 21 (IANS) For years, China has attempted to turn maps, place names and administrative terminology into instruments of territorial pressure against India. Beijing’s repeated publication of Chinese names for locations inside Arunachal Pradesh is not simply an exercise in geography. It is part of a broader political strategy designed to normalise China’s territorial claim through repetition, official documentation and state-controlled messaging. India’s latest cartographic response therefore represents more than a naming exercise: it is a rejection of Beijing’s attempt to manufacture sovereignty through nomenclature.
New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that India had moved away from the "Production Linked Punishment" approach of the Licence Raj era to a model that incentivises higher production, citing the performance of the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme as a reflection of the country's changing economic approach.
Ahmedabad, Aug 21 (IANS) More than 100 technology startups and 1,500 students from across India took part in Gujarat’s first police-led cybersecurity hackathon, with teams developing solutions to tackle cyber fraud, dark-web threats, digital forensics, and online safety.
New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) A high-level delegation from the UK led by Jeremy Pocklington, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence of the UK, visited the National Defence College (NDC) in New Delhi on Friday.
Hyderabad, Aug 21 (IANS) Setting a new record in Hyderabad's real estate market, an acre of government land was auctioned for a whopping Rs 264 crore on Friday, surpassing the earlier record of Rs 237 crore.
New Delhi/Mogadishu, Aug 21 (IANS) The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday confirmed that there are 22 Indian citizens on board two foreign-flagged vessels that have reportedly been hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
Mumbai, Aug 21 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a second supplementary charge sheet in the Reliance Communications Limited (RCom) case in a special court here on Friday, accusing Reliance ADA Group Group Managing Director Amitabh Jhunjhunwala of the offences of criminal conspiracy, criminal misappropriation and cheating that caused a loss of over Rs 971 crore to the State Bank of India (SBI).
