Nation/Politics
MUMBAI: A lot is happening over food. From Theobroma to Haldiram’s and Biryani By Kilo, investors (investment firms and corporates alike) are lining up to take a bite of India’s food (captures packaged food as well as food services like QSR) and beverages (F&B) space.A broader sluggishness in consumption had slowed down the pace of…
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MP Sanjay Raut. | Photo Credit: ANI Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday (July 20, 2025) launched a blistering attack on the Devendra Fadnavis government over the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill, 2024, claiming it poses a direct threat to civil liberties and…
Amid rising tensions within the Congress party, senior leader and former Union Minister K. Muraleedharan on Sunday declared that Shashi Tharoor would no longer be invited to any party programme in Thiruvananthapuram unless he alters his stance on key national security issues. His remarks have further exposed the widening rift between Tharoor and the party’s…
Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal. | Photo Credit: ANI Facing a flak for not giving a dissent note in the joint committee which scrutinised the controversial Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill before it was tabled in the Maharashtra Legislature, Congress has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of deliberately subverting the process by making last…
New Delhi: An encounter broke out in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district as the Indian Army launched a major anti-terror operation following specific intelligence inputs. The encounter is ongoing in the remote Hadal Gal area of the Kishtwar sector. “Based on specific inputs, an operation was launched by the Indian Army in the Hadal Gal area…
NEW DELHI: Continuing its tirade against mining heavyweight Anil Agarwal‘s Vedanta group, US-based Viceroy Research has alleged that the group’s semiconductor unit was a “sham commodities trading operation”, designed to avoid classification as an NBFC, a charge the conglomerate called baseless.The short seller, which last week published a scathing report about Vedanta Group and followed…
Vellapally Natesan. | Photo Credit: Vipin Chandran The Congress and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) sought to mount pressure on the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government on Sunday (July 20, 2025) to hold Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan accountable for allegedly stoking religious schisms in society through “communal and…
NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar on Sunday shared a video on X, claiming that Maharashtra Minister Manikrao Kokate was playing a rummy game on his mobile phone during the state assembly session. He criticised the ruling NCP faction, saying it is unable to function without consulting the BJP. The ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra consists…
UPS vs NPS: The answer depends on the age and risk profile of the individual. (AI image) NEW DELHI: The extension of the deadline for choosing between the New Pension System (NPS) Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) to September 30 has given government employees some more time to decide. The government has also clarified that the…
Dismissing Opposition parties’ allegation surrounding the rise in crime in Haryana, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on Sunday (July 20, 2025) termed the assertion as “misleading and factually baseless”. In a statement issued here, the State government said that under its ‘Zero Tolerance for Crime’ policy, it has taken significant and effective measures to strengthen…
VIJAYAWADA: A city court on Sunday sent YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) MP, P. V. Midhun Reddy, to judicial custody in the alleged liquor scam case. The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which arrested the MP on Saturday night, produced him before the ACB court judge, who remanded him to judicial custody till August 1. Midhun Reddy,…
BJP Tamil Nadu president Nainar Nagenthran. | Photo Credit: B. Thamodharan BJP Tamil Nadu president Nainar Nagenthran on Sunday said the DMK leaders should be ashamed of boasting about governance over the past four years, when the State government has failed to contain the growing problem of garbage accumulation in cities. In a statement, Mr. Nagenthran…
Chandigarh: In a remote village near the India-Pakistan border, a barefoot boy with a steel heart did something few adults could imagine. Ten-year-old Shavan Singh, a fourth-grade student from Punjab’s Tara Wali village, became an unlikely ally of the Indian Army during Operation Sindoor. When the guns roared and the skies thundered with missiles, Shavan…
AHMEDABAD: Operating seven airports in India, including Mumbai CSMIA with Navi Mumbai set to join the list this Oct, the Adani group will invest close to Rs 1 lakh crore in its airport business over the next five years. This capex will be spread over both infra and real estate development. The conglomerate’s airport head…
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan. | Photo Credit: ANI The Madhya Pradesh Government has received investment proposals worth more than ₹11,000 crore in multiple sectors such as infrastructure, hospitality, food processing and logistics, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said on Sunday (July 20, 2025) after he returned from his official visit to Spain and United Arab…
Pope Leo XIV has strongly condemned an Israeli attack on Gaza’s only Catholic church, which killed three people on Thursday. During his Sunday Angelus prayer, the Pope expressed his deep sorrow and appealed for an end to the “barbarity of war,” AL Jazeera reported. He urged the international community to “observe humanitarian law and respect…
