With PM Narendra Modi in The Hague, Dutch foreign minister Tom Berendsen decodes the new India-Netherlands strategic partnership, semiconductor focus and the geopolitical imperative for trust-based ties in an exclusive interview to Sachin Parashar.This is the second visit by PM Modi to the Netherlands and the first since the India-EU FTA was announced. What are…
Riteish Deshmukh‘s historical drama, ‘Raja Shivaji’, garnered appreciation from all quarters. Despite initial scepticism about the actor playing the titular role, the movie has impressed the audience. As the title suggests, it is based on the life of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the Maratha warrior king and the founder of Swarajya. Though the arrival of new…
NEW DELHI: Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has proposed a nationwide overhaul of electricity tariffs, recommending a sharp increase in fixed monthly charges paid by consumers as power distributors struggle to recover costs amid rising rooftop solar adoption and migration of industries to captive power.The proposal could eventually mean consumers paying a larger portion of their…
Arshdeep Singh (BCCI/IPL Photo) DHARAMSHALA: Arshdeep Singh didn’t look like his usual self during practice here on Saturday afternoon. On the eve of a nearly make-or-break match against table-toppers Royal Challengers Bengaluru, he eschewed the customary banter with teammates for intense conversations with Punjab Kings head coach Ricky Ponting. For a man who has built…
GURGAON: A woman was forced to deliver her baby in the park of a govt hospital in Faridabad in the dead of night after her family found the main gate locked, could not get immediate help from any doctor or nurse, and was left to manage the childbirth on their own under the beam of…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court granted Saturday pre-arrest bail to businessman Robert Vadra in a money laundering case tied to a land deal in Haryana, ruling that his “detention in judicial custody is neither necessary nor warranted” after ED chose not to arrest him during its investigation. Special judge Sushant Changotra of Rouse Avenue Courts…
Tovino Thomas’s ‘Athiradi’ featuring Basil Joseph and Vineeth Sreenivasan also in the lead, continues to hold a stable position at the box office with consistent audience turnout. The film, which opened to modest but steady numbers, has shown gradual improvement through its first three days. Day 3 collection update for ‘Athiradi’ As per Sacnilk data,…
NEW DELHI: The boards of state-run power sector financiers Power Finance Corporation and REC Limited on Saturday decided to move ahead with the proposal to merge the two entities.In separate stock exchan-ge filings, both companies said their boards had cleared reserving the merger proposal for approval of President of India, as required under their Articles…
What began as a temporary pandemic adjustment in 2020 has now evolved into a lasting workplace expectation. Six years after COVID-19 forced offices to shut, the work-from-home debate has resurfaced after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged citizens to adopt fuel-saving measures and Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta announced a mandatory two-day work-from-home policy each week…
TOI Correspondent from London: Two thousand Jain manuscripts bought by British pharmaceutical entrepreneur Sir Henry Wellcome, which had been held by the Wellcome Collection in London, a museum set up after his death to hold all the items he had collected across the world, are now being returned to the Jain community.The collection, believed to…
