Publication
AI, ambition and scale: PM inaugurates India AI Impact Summit with 600 startups on show
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the five-day India AI Impact Summit and the accompanying India AI Impact Expo at Bharat Mandapam, marking what the government has described as the country’s largest edition of the global artificial...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Another familiar script
COLOMBO: The biggest match of this World Cup did not simply arrive; it loomed heavy with memory, politics and the familiar ache of rivalry. When it finally passed at R Premadasa Stadium, it left behind a result that now feels almost ritual. India had...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Historic touchdown in Assam
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a historic landing at northeast’s first emergency landing facility (ELF) aboard C-130J aircraft in Assam’s Moran in Dibrugarh district on Saturday, beginning his day-long visit to the state that is scheduled to go to...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Tarique Rahman-led BNP scripts big win
DHAKA/NEW DELHI: Making a spectacular return to power after two decades, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Friday secured a sweeping victory with more than two-thirds majority in the landmark parliamentary elections in Bangladesh. Polling in...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
India clears Rs 3.25 lakh cr deal for 114 Rafale in its biggest military buy
In one of the biggest defence acquisitions in the country’s history, India has approved a proposal worth Rs 3.25 lakh crore to procure 114 Rafale fighter jets for the Indian Air Force (IAF). The clearance was granted by the Defence Acquisition Council...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
B’desh gears up to hold crucial polls today amid high security
DHAKA: Bangladesh will hold crucial parliamentary elections on Thursday, 18 months after an interim government took charge following the collapse of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year regime in massive country-wide deadly protests. The Election...
Read Full Story (Page 2)
No-confidence notice by 120 Oppn MPs: Speaker Birla not to preside till it is decided
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday decided that he will not preside over proceedings in the Lower House till discussion and a decision are taken on the noconfidence motion moved by Opposition MPs seeking his removal, sources said. The Congress...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Oppn, LS Speaker Birla at loggerheads
NEW DELHI: As tension continues to simmer between the Treasury benches and the Opposition, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has come under fire from the opposition which is considering giving a notice for moving a resolution to remove him from office for...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
India and Malaysia ties enter strategic phase, PM Modi says ‘no compromise’ on terrorism
In a significant elevation of bilateral ties, India and Malaysia on Sunday rolled out an ambitious roadmap to deepen cooperation across trade, investment, defence, energy, advanced manufacturing, digital technologies and semiconductors, even as both...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
US deal unlocks $30-trn market for India
Union Commerce and Industry minister Piyush Goyal said almost every farm commodity that India produces in respectable volumes has been kept out of the India-US trade deal, so farmers and dairy are protected and the pact still opens a sharper edge for...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Six-star India: U-19 men rule again
MUMBAI: Salute the rising Indian teenagers. On Friday, riding on the effulgence of 14-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s breathtaking 175 runs, studded with 15 fours and 15 sixes, India thrashed England by 100 runs to lift the ICC Men’s Under-19 World Cup...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Congress will never be able to dig my grave: PM Modi in RS during Motion of Thanks
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday delivered a combative, nearly 100-minute reply to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address, using the occasion to mount a sweeping attack on the Congress and other Opposition parties even as members of...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Centre ends President’s Rule in Manipur as Khemchand Singh takes oath as CM
After nearly a year of President’s Rule, Manipur returned to an elected government on Wednesday with BJP MLA Yumnam Khemchand Singh being sworn in as the state’s 13th Chief Minister, along with two deputy chief ministers. The new government marks a...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
India-US trade pact: Interest of agriculture, dairy sector completely protected, says Goyal
India and the United States have reached the final stages of a sweeping bilateral trade framework that sharply reduces American tariffs on a wide range of Indian goods while preserving New Delhi’s policy space over sensitive farm and dairy products,...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
India, US agree on trade deal; tariffs on Indian goods cut to 18%: Trump
India and the United States on Monday announced a new trade deal under which Washington will reduce tariffs on Indian goods to 18 per cent, while New Delhi agreed to gradually lower its tariffs and non-tariff barriers on US products, following a phone...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Growth, stability over populism
Medicines for Cancer and rare diseases Personal-use imported medical goods Overseas tour packages Foreign education Footwear and leather goods Textile garments Microwave ovens Lithium-ion cells for batteries Solar glass Critical minerals Biogas-blended...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
FM’s Budget speech set to be different
NEW DELHI: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is all set to deliver a Union Budget speech on Sunday that is expected to look markedly different from the tradition followed for the past 75 years with the second Part B stealing the focus. In...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Russia strikes Ukraine after Trump says Putin agreed to week-long halt
Russia launched a ballistic missile and more than 100 drones at Ukraine overnight, none of which hit Kyiv, after US President Donald Trump’s statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to pause air strikes on the capital and other...
Read Full Story (Page 2)
Eco Survey projects resilient growth, low inflation amid rising global risks
India’s economy is expected to expand by between 6.8 per cent and 7.2 per cent in the financial year beginning April, according to the Economic Survey 2025–26 tabled in Parliament on Thursday, underscoring the country’s position as the world’s fastest...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Maharashtra Dy CM Ajit Pawar, four others killed in plane crash
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party president Ajit Pawar was killed on Wednesday morning when a chartered Learjet aircraft carrying him and four others crashed near Baramati airport in Pune district, barely 200 metres from...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
India, EU seal ‘mother of all deals’
NEW DELHI: India and the European Union on Tuesday announced the conclusion of negotiations on a long-pending free trade agreement, capping nearly two decades of talks and paving the way for one of the most expansive trade pacts ever negotiated by...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
India, EU to announce historic FTA, defence partnership today
NEW DELHI: India and the European Union are set to announce the conclusion of negotiations on a long-pending free trade agreement and formalise a broad strategic agenda when Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosts European Commission President Ursula von...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Europe’s leaders find way to speak with one voice against US
No more fawning praise. No more polite workarounds and old-style diplomacy. And no one is calling Donald Trump “daddy” now. European leaders who scrambled for a year to figure out how to deal with an emboldened American president in his second term...
Read Full Story (Page 2)
Trade, mobility deals to help youth: PM
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said India is entering into trade and mobility agreements with various nations to create new opportunities for the youth both within the country and abroad. PM Modi made these remarks at the 18th...
Read Full Story (Page 1)