Congress top brass confer on ways to strengthen district committees

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and party leaders Rahul Gandhi and K.C. Venugopal during a meeting with party’s general secretaries and in-charges. | Photo Credit: @kcvenugopalmp Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi met with general secretaries and leadership from the states on Tuesday to find ways to strengthen the district Congress committees … Read more

Pact signed for using Parliament data to train indigenous AI model: Ashwini Vaishnaw

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw speaks in the Lok Sabha. File | Photo Credit: Sansad TV The India Artificial Intelligence (AI) Mission, helmed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Parliament to access its data for training an indigenous AI model, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on … Read more

Prayers on lips, celebrations on ground: Sunita Williams’ ancestral Gujarat village plans ‘Deepavali’

Hindu priests, teachers and students perform ‘Havan’ for the safe return of astronaut Sunita Williams, at a school, in Ahmedabad, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI With prayers on their lips, residents of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams’ ancestral village in Gujarat are waiting for her safe return to Earth with bated breath and … Read more

Pakistan should vacate Indian territory under its illegal and forcible occupation: MEA 

Randhir Jaiswal. File Photo: YouTube/@MEAIndia India on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) hit out at Pakistan, asking it to “vacate” Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK). The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) made the comment after the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks, made in a podcast interview, where he said … Read more

‘Right to development through industrialisation equally claims priority under fundamental rights’

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has set aside, in separate judgments on Monday, a National Green Tribunal (NGT) order and a Madras High Court decision to halt development activities at Auroville in Chennai for lack of environmental clearance while outlining the need for sustainable development which strike a “golden balance” between the rights to development … Read more

BJP warns of Pakistan situation’s spillover into Jammu, asks security forces to stay alert

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) warned of the likely spillover of Pakistan’s “deteriorating situation” into J&K and urged locals to stay alert in the Jammu region.   “There could be an attempt to spread disturbance in J&K. Pakistan, where the situation is sliding in the past few days, may try to spread disturbance … Read more

ECI sets the ball rolling on linking voter ID card with Aadhaar

In this image released by @ECISVEEP via X on March 18, 2025, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi during a meeting between Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and technical experts of Election Commission of India (ECI), in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: PTI/@ECISVEEP The Election Commission … Read more

RBI and Bank of Mauritius sign pact on use of local currencies for bilateral transactions

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Reserve Bank and the Bank of Mauritius (BOM) have signed a pact for establishing a framework to promote the use of the Indian Rupee and the Mauritian Rupee (MUR) for cross-border transactions. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by RBI Governor … Read more

Rajnath meets Dutch counterpart Berkelmans, says look forward to deepen defence partnership

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh meets Netherlands Defence Minister Ruben Berkelmans, in New Delhi on Tuesday (March 18, 2025). | Photo Credit: X/Rajnath Singh via ANI Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met his Dutch counterpart Ruben Berkelmans on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) here and held discussions on a broad range of subjects including Indo-Pacific and emerging technologies … Read more