Doha/New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday held a discussion with her Qatar counterpart Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari on the implementation of the $10 billion Qatari investment commitment in India and the finalisation of the Bilateral Investment Treaty.
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) Indian cinema, through generations, has celebrated motherhood and women’s role in agriculture and dairying through productions like the multi-starrer Mother India (1957) and the crowd-funded Manthan (1976), among many others, though their contribution in real life was seldom recognised despite multi-tasking – taking care of the family with cleaning, cooking, raising children, along with other daily chores.
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) India conveyed its concerns to a visiting US Congressional delegation over the Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act (SRIA), including the impact it could have on bilateral relations and on the international energy market, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Tuesday.
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) India on Tuesday rejected the "unwarranted references" to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir made by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his address at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) recently, asserting that no external party has any locus standi on the issue.
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) India is in talks with China over the use of the Asian neighbour's airspace in the Xinjiang region by Indian commercial airlines to reduce the longer time and higher costs involved for flights to western countries due to the continued closure of Pakistani airspace, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said on Tuesday.
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) Indian nationals settled abroad, from the United States to Europe, have proved their mettle and made the nation proud with different milestones, even though this came at the cost of ‘brain drain’, back home – a trend that started in the 1990s and remained unaddressed till the launch of the VAIBHAV initiative.
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned the huge disparity between the maximum retail price (MRP) of medicines and the price at which they are supplied to retailers, asking the Centre why a uniform margin cap could not be prescribed for pharmaceutical products.
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) India hosted the 11th meeting of the BIMSTEC Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (JWG-CTTC) in New Delhi on September 28 and 29 with delegations from all member states in attendance, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Tuesday.
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday accused the Congress of "tearing apart" India's constitutional framework, especially the Election Commission of India (ECI), despite being the party formed to "provide protection" to the then British government.
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court has quashed the preventive detention of UP cleric Mulla Afroz under the National Security Act (NSA) in connection with the 2024 Sambhal violence case, holding that a confessional statement made before a police officer cannot, by itself and without independent supporting material, form the basis for preventive detention.
