Author: Team Admin

NEW DELHI: The Centre has reportedly cleared the supply of several essential commodities to the Maldives, including food items such as rice, wheat and onions whose exports are currently banned due to strained relationship between the two neighbouring countries. India, known for being a major exporter of rice, sugar, and onions, had previously imposed restrictions on the export of these food items. The step was taken before the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in an effort to maintain stability in local prices, India Today reported. In a statement by the Indian high commission in Male, the Narendra Modi-led government allowed the…

Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh: Warning criminals, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that whoever poses a threat to the security of society, their ‘Ram Naam Satya’ (last rites) is certain. He said this on Friday while addressing a massive poll rally in Aligarh for BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate Satish Kumar Gautam. “No one ever thought that daughters and businessmen could venture out at night without worry. We ensure ‘Ram Naam Satya’ (last rites done) for the danger posed to the safety of daughters and businessmen. We live our lives chanting Lord Ram’s name. Without Ram, nothing is possible. But…

Goemkarponn Desk MARGAO: One witness has deposed before the Special Court today in the alleged power scam involving Panchayat Minister Mauvin Godinho. The statement of Chandrakant Mulgaokar who is one of the witness in the case was recorded today and he is asked to depose again on April 12. The Special Court had examined some witnesses earlier in the case. In 1998, the then Leader of the Opposition Manohar Parrikar exposed the scam. In 2001 an FIR was registered by the Crime Branch against the former power minister in the Congress government, who is presently a minister in the BJP…

OTAWA: India and Pakistan attempted to interfere and conduct clandestine activities in Canadian elections that took place in 2019 and 2021, the country’s spy agency revealed on Thursday night. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service on April 4 released the documents stating that the Government of India had tried to use its proxy agency in Canada in 2021, according to an unclassified summary written by the CSIS. Similarly, the Government of Pakistan had also attempted to “clandestinely influence” the Canadian politics in 2019, Canada’s foreign intelligence agency wrote as quoted by cbc.ca. The documents submitted as part of the federal commission…

New Delhi: India aims to attract at least $100 billion a year in gross foreign direct investment, a top official said, as the South Asian nation courts investors looking to diversify away from China. “Our target is that we will average at least $100 billion over the next five years. The trend is very positive and upward,” Rajesh Kumar Singh, secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, said in an interview in New Delhi. The ambitious target compares with an annual average of more than $70 billion in FDI in the five years through March 2023…

Goemkarponn Desk MARGAO: The Revenue Minister Atanasio Monserrate and his wife Jennifer made a plea, requesting that the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) be directed to produce the closure report in the Panaji police station attack case. The CBI has refused to comply. The CBI’s Naushad filed a reply on Friday when the case was scheduled to be heard by South Goa Sessions Judge Irsha Agha. The reply opposed the Monserrattes’ requests for the production of the case’s closure report. The Sessions judge has now set a date for the case’s arguments to take place the following week. A fortnight…

MUMBAI: An Indian student studying in the US state of Ohio has died and a probe has been launched into the case, the Indian Consulate in New York said on Friday. The death of Uma Satya Sai Gadde in Cleveland is the latest in a string of tragedies to shock the Indian diaspora in the country. “Deeply saddened by the unfortunate demise of Mr Uma Satya Sai Gadde, an Indian student in Cleveland, Ohio,” the Consulate General of India in New York said in a post on X. The consulate said that they continue to remain in touch with Gadde’s…