- Thursday, April 24, 2025
INDIA'S gems and jewellery industry is breathing a momentary sigh of relief after US president Donald Trump paused harsh tariffs that threatened to hit lucrative exports and tens of thousands of jobs. At manufacturing and processing hubs across India, exporters and buyers worried over how they would absorb Trump's gruelling…
THE BJP and AIADMK on Friday (11) sealed a poll alliance, with home minister Amit Shah declaring that the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly election will be fought under the leadership of AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami. With the parties rekindling their alliance nearly two years after they parted ways, Shah…
ELECTION COMMISSION sources on Friday (11) rejected suggestions that electronic voting machines (EVMs) used in the country are vulnerable to hacking, asserting that the machines work like simple calculators which are not connected to the internet or infrared. United States director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has claimed that her…
CHINA on Friday (11) continued its tit-for-tat move against the Trump administration's tariffs by hiking its additional levies on imports from the US to 125 per cent against duties of 145 per cent by America even as it evinced interest in dialogue with Washington to resolve the impasse. Announcing an…
CONTROVERSIAL yoga guru Baba Ramdev has now introduced a sharbat, a soft drink prepared from fruit or flower petals, amid the ongoing heat wave, but his sales pitch is drawing flak for communally divisive remarks. Aiming at the market leader Rooh Afza, a drink sold by Hamdard Laboratories since 1906,…
BJP LEGISLATOR from Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli constituency, Nainar Nagendran, filed his nomination papers to contest the party's state president’s election on Friday (11). Nagendran, currently the state vice president, was formerly with the AIADMK. He was the first aspirant to arrive at the BJP state headquarters, Kamalalayam, in T Nagar,…
FROM being panned as a stat-padder, who lacked intent from the word go to being a master of tricky chases, KL Rahul has turned the wheels in a manner only a batter blessed with a skill-set like him can. He printed the latest blueprint of his growth chart with an…
PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi, who arrived here Friday (11) morning, received a detailed briefing on the alleged gang-rape of a young woman in his constituency and asked officials to take the strictest possible action against those involved. The prime minister was briefed by the police commissioner, divisional commissioner and district…
A 40-YEAR-OLD man was killed, and two members of his family sustained injuries as a group of people attacked them with sharp weapons after he opposed the peddling of drugs in a Mumbai suburb, police said on Friday. The police have arrested four people in connection with the attack that…
THE National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday (11) took Mumbai attacks mastermind Tahawwur Hussain Rana into 18-day custody, during which he will be questioned in detail to unravel the complete conspiracy behind the deadly 26/11 terror strike. The anti-terror agency had produced Rana before the NIA Special Court at Patiala…
