Visakhapatnam, Aug 22 (IANS) India will host the BRICS Youth Ministers’ Meeting and the BRICS Sports Ministers’ Meeting in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, starting Saturday, under India’s BRICS Chairship 2026.
New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party is set to hold a series of important organisational meetings in the national capital on Saturday, bringing together its newly appointed national office-bearers and senior state-level leadership.
Gandhinagar/Rajkot, Aug 21 (IANS) The Gujarat government on Friday ordered the transfer of senior doctor Dr Ashwin Ramani from Rajkot Civil Hospital to a primary health centre in Panchmahal district after he was accused of slapping and verbally abusing a woman resident doctor during an altercation at the hospital's emergency ward.
Ahmedabad, Aug 21 (IANS) Ahmedabad’s Science City has added two new African penguin chicks to its Aquatic Gallery, taking the total number of penguins at the facility to 10. The chicks, named ‘Shaurya’ and ‘Veer’, were formally named and introduced to visitors on Friday in the presence of Science and Technology Minister Arjun Modhwadia.
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.
