Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually inaugurate 103 redeveloped railway stations across 86 districts in 18 states and Union Territories on Thursday, under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme. The initiative aims to further modernise the Indian Railways by transforming more than 1,300 stations nationwide into state-of-the-art transport hubs, featuring upgraded passenger amenities and designs inspired […]

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar held talks with Honduras’ Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina García last week, who concluded his four-day visit to India on May 18. The ministers discussed bilateral cooperation across trade, investment, development, health, digital technology, energy, and disaster response, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). They also exchanged views […]

Dr. M.R. Srinivasan, a towering figure in India’s nuclear science community and former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, passed away on Tuesday in Udhagamandalam, Tamil Nadu, at the age of 95. A key architect of India’s civil nuclear energy programme, Dr. Srinivasan’s career in the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) spanned over five decades, […]

Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said that he had held fruitful talks with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick towards concluding the first tranche of the India-US Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA). India and the US are working to sign the first tranche of the BTA to reduce tariffs before the agreed timeline […]

Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Chhagan Bhujbal took oath as a minister in the Mahayuti-led Maharashtra government on Tuesday morning at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai. The swearing-in ceremony was attended by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Governor C.P. Radhakrishnan, who administered the oath to Bhujbal. Deputy Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar, […]