Hindustan Times (Jalandhar)
Assam gets key project, Modi sharpens poll pitch
GUWAHATI/NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday stepped up the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) campaign for a third consecutive term in Assam with a sharp political attack on the Congress, while the Union cabinet in New Delhi separately...
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BNP clinches massive mandate in B’desh polls
DHAKA : Bangladesh’s opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party won a landslide parliamentary election on Friday, returning to power after nearly two decades and positioning party leader Tarique Rahman to become prime minister as the country emerges from...
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DAC nod for Rafale fighters, sub hunters
NEW DELHI: The defence acquisition council (DAC) on Thursday cleared the purchase of military hardware worth ₹3.6 lakh crore, including 114 Rafale fighter jets, six P-8I long-range maritime surveillance aircraft, SCALP deep-strike cruise missiles and...
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Delhi, DC chart course for new trade order
NEW DELHI: India and the US moved closer to an interim trade deal on Saturday, releasing a joint statement that confirms US tariffs on Indian goods have dropped to 18% from 50% and details a framework committing both countries to zero duties on select...
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RBI hits pause, rates to stay low for a long time
NEW DELHI: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India maintained status quo on interest rates and policy stance in its first meeting of the year and also the first after the Union Budget, bringing to an end the current rate...
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Modi praises trade deals, slams Oppn in RS speech
NEW DELHI: A raft of recent trade deals will open a world of new opportunities for the youth and prove that the world is tilting towards India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, hitting out at the Opposition for sullying the image of the...
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Manipur gets a new CM after 12 months of President’s Rule
IMPHAL: Former Manipur speaker Yumnam Khemchand Singh on Wednesday took oath as the chief minister of the strifetorn state, becoming the first person to helm the northeastern province since President’s Rule was clamped in 2025 after two years of ethnic...
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US deal protects key agri items, dairy; no duty for $40bn exports
NEW DELHI: The India-US trade deal exempts Indian dairy and “sensitive” agriculture items from its ambit, provides for zero-duty access to over $40 billion worth of Indian goods, and reduces customs duties on labor-intensive Indian merchandise such as...
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US trade deal done: India tariffs now 18%
NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Monday that Indian goods will face a reduced US tariff of 18% after a phone conversation with President Donald Trump, who said the two sides had concluded a trade deal whereby New Delhi...
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THE 3 KARTAVYAS THAT INSPIRED THE BUDGET
1 To accelerate and sustain growth, by enhancing productivity and competitiveness, and building resilience to volatile global dynamics 2 To fulfil aspirations of people and build their capacity, making them strong partners in India’s path to...
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Sunetra Pawar sworn in, finance goes to Fadnavis
MUMBAI: Rajya Sabha member Sunetra Pawar took oath as the first woman deputy chief minister of Maharashtra at a low-key ceremony on Saturday evening, three days after her husband and former Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Ajit Pawar died in a...
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Sunetra-Pawartotake oath as Maha dy CM
MUMBAI: Rajya Sabha member Sunetra Pawar is set to take oath as the first woman deputy chief minister of Maharashtra on Saturday, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders aware of the matter said, taking over the position from her late husband Ajit...
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Footage gives rise to three theories for Pawar jet crash
NEW DELHI: New video emerged of the final moments of VT-SSK, the Learjet 45 business jet that crashed in Baramati on Wednesday, claiming the lives of Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and four others on board, prompting experts to raise...
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Tragic homecoming: Ajit Pawar dies in jet crash
MUMBAI: Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and four others were killed in a plane crash in Maharashtra’s Baramati town on Wednesday morning, ending an era in state politics and raising serious questions about the flight operator and the state...
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Historic deal: India, EU play their trump card
NEW DELHI: India and the European Union (EU) on Monday concluded a free trade agreement billed as the “mother of all deals”, with their leaders positioning commerce as a bulwark against protectionism and pledging to shore up a rules-based world order...
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Pak to face heavy ICC penalties if it boycotts T20 WC
MUMBAI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) could face a range of penalties from the International Cricket Council (ICC), including the withholding of its revenue, restrictions on future bilateral series, and reduced influence in upcoming multi-nation...
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US hints ‘path’ to scrap 25% levy on India over Russia oil
WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI: US treasury secretary Scott Bessent said on Saturday there is a “path” to remove the 25% tariffs imposed on India as a penalty for buying Russian oil, noting that such purchases by Delhi from Moscow have “collapsed”. The levy is...
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Modi draws battle lines in TN, Kerala
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM/ CHENNAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday embarked on a high-octane campaign across Kerala and Tamil Nadu, intensifying outreach, targeting incumbent state governments and highlighting National Democratic Alliance (NDA)-led...
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SC revives Bhojshala case, allows prayers at site today
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday revived proceedings before the Madhya Pradesh High Court in the long-running dispute over the Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque complex in Dhar district, in the first such order of its kind after a moratorium...
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12 years at -21 deg C: Body frozen, but faith grows
JALANDHAR: For the followers of Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan (DJJS), time has stood still since January 28, 2014. For 12 years, their faith, and the body of their founder, Ashutosh Maharaj, has remained frozen at a constant -21°C. While doctors...
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SC steps in for Bengal voters feeling SIR ‘stress and strain’
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stepped in to alleviate the “stress and strain” faced by ordinary voters during West Bengal’s special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, issuing a slew of binding directions to the Election Commission of...
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IndiGo hit with record ₹22cr fine for Dec chaos
NEW DELHI: India’s aviation regulator on Saturday imposed a record ₹22.2 crore penalty on IndiGo and issued warnings to six senior executives, including the chief operating officer, after its inquiry found the airline’s “overriding focus on maximising...
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Exports brave US tariffs, global churn to log rise
NEW DELHI: Defying global headwinds and hefty US tariffs, India’s merchandise exports increased 1.9% to $38.51 billion in December from $37.8 billion a year earlier, and 2.44% to $330.29 billion in the first nine months of fiscal 2026, which was...
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Pak told to rein in drones: Army chief on intrusions
NEW DELHI: India asked Pakistan to rein in its drone activities after Islamabad launched defensive drones to assess if New Delhi was preparing to take any action against it, army chief General Upendra Dwivedi said on Tuesday, speaking against the...
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Stay united, defeat those trying to divide us: Modi
VERAVAL/AHMEDABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday warned against appeasement politics and whitewashing history, saying those who opposed the reconstruction of the Somnath Temple were still active today, even as he asserted that India was...
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India junks claim Modi not calling Trump held up deal
NEW DELHI: India on Friday rejected US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick’s claim that a bilateral trade deal could not be sealed last year because Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not call president Donald Trump, and said New Delhi remains interested...
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Backdrop for Budget: 7.4% growth estimated for FY26
NEW DELHI: The Indian economy is expected to grow at 7.4% in the ongoing fiscal year, the National Statistical Office (NSO) said in its first advance estimates of gross domestic product released on Wednesday, with manufacturing, services, and...
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SC denies Umar, Sharjeel bail in ’20 Delhi riots case
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to grant bail to former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid and activist Sharjeel Imam in the alleged larger conspiracy case linked to the 2020 Delhi riots, citing the gravity and statutory...
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Maduro loyalists vow to defy US
CARACAS/WASHINGTON: A top Venezuelan official declared on Sunday that the country’s government would stay unified behind President Nicolas Maduro, whose capture by the US has sparked deep uncertainty about what is next for the oilrich South American...
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US spirits away Maduro
CARACAS/WASHINGTON: US special forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from his bedroom early Saturday in an operation without modern precedent, plucking a sitting head of state from sovereign territory to face American criminal...
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Trump, Tehran exchange threats as Iran stir grows
DUBAI: US President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged duelling threats Friday as widening protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the countries after America bombed Iranian nuclear sites...
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Police arrest ex-SGPC auditor Kohli in missing saroops case
AMRITSAR: Punjab Police on Thursday arrested Satinder Singh Kohli, former internal auditor of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and close associate of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal, in the 328 missing saroops...
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In Dhaka for Zia’s last rites, EAM hands her son letter from Modi
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar represented India at the funeral of former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia in Dhaka on Wednesday and told her son and political heir Tarique Rahman that her vision will guide the development of...
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Khaleda Zia, 1st woman PM of Bangladesh, dies
DHAKA: Khaleda Zia, who became Bangladesh’s first female prime minister in 1991 and went on to develop a bitter rivalry with Sheikh Hasina as they spent decades trading power, died on Tuesday after a long illness. She was 80. Her Bangladesh...
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Bangladesh ramps up rhetoric, Indian agencies push back
NEW DELHI/SHILLONG: Bangladesh on Sunday sharpened its rhetoric against India, with Dhaka accusing New Delhi of spreading a “misleading narrative” on the condition of minorities in the country and the Bangladeshi police claiming that suspects in the...
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4% of Assam voters marked for deletion
GUWAHATI: The Election Commission (EC) has marked 1.06 million names for deletion from the electoral rolls of Assam following a special revision exercise that involved house-tohouse verification across the state, officials announced on Saturday with...
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‘Can’t be brushed aside’: India on B’desh attacks
NEW DELHI: India on Friday expressed grave concern at the “unremitting hostility” against minority communities in Bangladesh and reiterated its call for those responsible for the lynching of a Hindu man named Dipu Chandra Das to be brought to justice,...
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CBI files chargesheet against five Punjab cops in Col’s assault case
MOHALI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has submitted a chargesheet in a Mohali court against five Punjab Police officers in connection with the alleged assault on Colonel Pushpinder Singh Bath and his son in March this year. The development...
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No new Aravalli mining leases: Centre amid row
NEW DELHI: The Union environment ministry on Wednesday directed Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat to enforce a strict ban on new mining leases across the Aravalli range, a direction that experts said is part of complying with a Supreme Court order in...
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Envoys called in, Delhi, Dhaka trade protests
NEW DELHI: India and Bangladesh on Tuesday brought in each other’s envoys to lodge protests over recent incidents impacting bilateral relations, even as demonstrations erupted in several parts of the country, including near the Bangladeshi mission in...
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Fog chaos in north: Haze to persist for 2 more days
NEW DELHI: Thick fog continued to reduce visibility across the northern plains and the national capital on Sunday, disrupting trains and flights for a seventh straight day, as weather agencies forecast that the hazy conditions will hobble travel for...
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Cold snap, dense fog paralyse north India
NEW DELHI: Air pollution surged into the severe category in Delhi on Saturday while blinding fog and frigid temperatures swept much of northern India and disrupted air, road and rail traffic across 10 states as authorities issued red and orange alerts...
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Unrest returns in B’desh, Indian missions on edge
NEW DELHI: Bangladesh continued to be on edge on Friday, after protests near the Indian high commission in Dhaka and assistant high commissions in Chittagong, Khulna and Rajshahi, attacks on the offices of several newspapers including the influential...
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India inks Oman FTA, gains duty-free boost
NEW DELHI: India and Oman on Thursday signed a free trade agreement that allows duty-free access of almost all Indian goods in the West Asian country, a comprehensive services package spanning 127 sectors, and a liberalised mobility framework for...
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Oz gunman had Hyderabad roots, left India 27 years ago
NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: Sajid Akram, the 50-year-old gunman killed during a terror attack he unleashed on a Jewish gathering in Australia, was an Indian national, the Philippines’ Bureau of Immigration said on Tuesday, with the Telangana Police confirming...
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Govt to bring ‘G RAM G’ to replace UPA’s MGNREGS
NEW DELHI: The Union government is set to propose a new federal jobs scheme, the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) or VB-G RAM G, to replace the twodecade-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme...
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11 killed in mass shooting at Jewish event in Sydney
SYDNEY: Gunmen opened fire at a Jewish holiday celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing at least 11 people in what Australian officials described as a targeted antisemitic attack. One of the suspected gunmen was also killed. A second was...
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SIR deletions: Kolkata may bear max impact
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal is set to remove around 5.82 million names and four out of the five assembly constituencies with potentially the highest percentage of deletions are in the state...
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Cabinet clears key bills, approves census budget
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Friday approved the budget for the upcoming census and a new economic partnership with Oman, allowed the export of coal, and cleared key bills proposing a unified national education regulator, opening up the insurance...
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DGCA deploys officials in IndiGo office, airports
NEW DELHI: India’s civil aviation regulator on Wednesday installed officers at IndiGo’s corporate office and airports to oversee and report on the airline’s flailing operations even as the company’s board said external technical experts will be brought...
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IndiGo scaled up ops but pilot count dipped: Data
NEW DELHI: Weeks after the country’s aviation regulator approved a 6% increase in flights for IndiGo, as part of the airline’s winter schedule, the ministry of civil aviation said there would be a 10% reduction instead, a consequence of the inability...
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Cong compromised on Vande Mataram, says PM
NEW DELHI: Vande Mataram will remain an inspiration to create a self-reliant and prosperous India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, initiating the discussion on the 150th anniversary of India’s national song in the Lok Sabha. Modi blamed...
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25 killed as midnight blaze tears through club in Goa
PANAJI: Twenty-five people, including four from a Delhi family, were killed and six injured after a massive fire ripped through a nightclub in the coastal village of Arpora in north Goa around 11.45pm on Saturday, officials said on Sunday, with chief...
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Bollywood? Now, love actually: Hugh Grant
NEW DELHI: Perhaps we love villains the way we do because people are inherently evil, Hollywood star Hugh Grant said, with a twinkle and a grin, speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit on Saturday. It seemed a fitting combination of the two...
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PM-Putin bonhomie sets tone for crucial defence, trade talks
NEW DELHI: India rolled out the red carpet for President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally receiving the Russian leader at the airport on his arrival in Delhi for a visit that will be capped by an annual summit...
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150 IndiGo flights cancelled as roster norms rock airline
NEW DELHI: IndiGo cancelled at least 150 flights on Wednesday, triggering chaotic scenes at major airports across India as the carrier’s struggles to adapt to stringent new crew rostering rules meant even minor operational disruptions snowballed into a...
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LS agrees to break debate deadlock
NEW DELHI: The government and the Opposition on Tuesday agreed to discuss the ongoing SIR (Special Intensive Revision) of electoral rolls in the Lok Sabha next week, preceded by a debate to mark 150 years of “Vande Mataram”, signalling a breakthrough...
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SIR stir: Oppn sceptical of govt debate overture
NEW DELHI: A short winter session of Parliament, with a new Chairman of the Upper House, began on a fractious note on Monday, with opposition parties demanding an immediate debate on electoral reform, and disrupting business in the process, despite the...
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New cess bill on sin goods likely as Parl opens today
NEW DELHI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to introduce a bill in the Lok Sabha on Monday to levy “Health Security se National Security Cess” on pan masala and any other items notified by the central government to meet...
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India braces for cyclone Ditwah after havoc in SL
NEW DELHI: Authorities rushed 28 disaster response teams and set up 6,000 relief camps in Tamil Nadu as the cyclone Ditwah, which has killed at least 153 people and left nearly 200 missing in Sri Lanka, inched closer to the country’s southeastern coast...
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Putin to visit India on Dec 4-5, ties in focus
NEW DELHI: President Vladimir Putin will make a state visit to New Delhi during December 4-5 for the annual India-Russia summit, the external affairs ministry announced on Friday, with the trip setting up an opportunity to reinvigorate bilateral ties...
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CJI: Delhi’s air ‘very bad’, will consider e-hearings
NEW DELHI: Delhi-NCR’s choking air overshadowed multiple proceedings in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, with Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and several senior lawyers repeatedly flagging the deteriorating air quality that has begun affecting basic...
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Modi hoists flag, Ayodhya project formally complete
AYODHYA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hoisted the saffron ‘dharma dhwaj’ flag atop the Ram temple in Ayodhya and marked the formal completion of the project, proclaiming that the “wounds and pain of centuries” were healing as a 500-year-old...
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Herculean hit machine: Dharmendra dies at 89
MUMBAI: Hindi film icon and former Member of Parliament, Dharmendra, died at his home in Mumbai on Monday. The actor, widely considered to be one of the most successful stars in commercial Hindi cinema, was ailing for the past few weeks. He would have...
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AI a global good, but must guard against misuse: PM
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called for barring the misuse of artificial intelligence for deepfakes, crime and terrorism, suggesting the need for a global framework built on certain fundamental principles including human oversight...
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Centre calls Delhi blast ‘terror incident’ as probe net widens
NEW DELHI/FARIDABAD/SRINAGAR: A rush-hour explosion near the Red Fort in Delhi that killed 10 people was a “heinous terror incident” by “anti-national” forces, the Union government confirmed on Wednesday, as security agencies worked to nab the...
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From F’bad to Pulwama: Red Fort blast probe focuses on terror web
NEW DELHI/FARIDABAD: Investigators probing the rush-hour car explosion outside Red Fort in Delhi turned their attention on Tuesday to an extremist module busted in Faridabad who they linked to terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and a doctor hailing...
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Car blast near Red Fort kills 8
NEW DELHI: Police and counterterrorism agencies are investigating an explosion in a slow-moving white Hyundai i20 car that ripped through a clutch of vehicles on an arterial road near the historic Red Fort in Delhi during the evening rush hour, killing...
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Pitched Bihar campaign finishes, Ph-2 tomorrow
PATNA: Campaigning for the Bihar elections wrapped up on Sunday with a raft of rallies across the eastern state, with leaders from the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA)...
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Winter session from Dec 1, Oppn hits out at ‘curtailed sitting’
NEW DELHI: The winter session of Parliament is set to take place from December 1 to 19, parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju said on Saturday, setting the stage for truncated but likely stormy proceedings. Last year, the winter session ran from...
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