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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday expressed confidence in resolving trade frictions with India claiming that the “two great countries will get this solved”. Bessent, however, down played the significance of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit where Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.When asked about…

NEW DELHI: Expressing serious doubts about its own 2014 verdict delivered by a five-judge constitution bench, which held that provisions of Right to Education (RTE) Act were not applicable to religious and linguistic minority educational institutions, Supreme Court has said the ruling “strikes at the heart of good quality universal elementary education, its consequences are…

NEW DELHI: Congress’ Udit Raj on Monday publicly endorsed White House trade counselor Peter Navarro’s controversial ‘Brahmins profiteering’ remarks. “I completely agree with @RealPNavarro…,” he posted on X amid outrage sparked by the remarks of Trump’s aide, adding, “In fact, private Indian oil refiners are from upper castes, and it will take decades, perhaps centuries,…

NEW DELHI: Former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday vacated VP Enclave, almost six weeks after his unexpected resignation from the second highest constitutional post. Dhankhar has shifted to a farmhouse at Gadaipur in south Delhi’s Chhatarpur, which belongs to INLD chief Abhay Chautala, in what is supposed to be an encampment before he gets an…

NEW DELHI: Far away from the raging bilateral tariff tensions, India and US on Monday kicked off one of their largest-ever Army ‘Yudh Abhyas’ exercise in Alaska, even as planning is underway to conduct the top-notch Malabar naval exercise among ‘Quad’ countries off Guam in Western Pacific in Nov.India-US ties may have plummeted after President…

JAMMU: Taking stock of the devastation caused by the recent spell of heavy rains and related disasters in Jammu, Union Home minister Amit Shah on Monday said the Centre had spared no efforts in ensuring prompt rescue and relief, and that PM Narendra Modi had spoken to J&K LG Manoj Sinha and CM Omar Abdullah.The…

NEW DELHI: Any foreigner entering India without valid passport or visa will now face up to five years’ jail and a fine of up to Rs 5 lakh. If such entry, stay or exit is on basis of a forged passport or travel document, punishment will range from two to seven years in jail and…

KOLKATA: The West Bengal Urdu Academy has indefinitely postponed a mushaira (poetry symposium) featuring Javed Akhtar, which was scheduled for Monday evening, following protests by religious groups which claimed that certain comments by the poet-lyricist-screenwriter had hurt their sentiments.The Urdu Academy, which functions under the Bengal govt’s minority affairs department, has not officially cited the…

President Putin and Prime Minister Modi traveled together to the location of their bilateral meeting following the events at the SCO Summit site. The warmth in India-Russia ties, despite mounting American pressure on India to discontinue its oil purchase from Russia, was on full display in China, as President Vladimir Putin and PM Narendra Modi…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday rebuffed political parties’ clamour for a directive to EC to accept Aadhaar card as standalone proof of citizenship to enable people to enroll in the Bihar voter list prepared after special intensive revision (SIR) and said the status of Aadhaar cannot be enhanced beyond what has been laid down in…