File photo: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman India has sharply increased its spending on climate action over the past six years, with allocations rising from around 3.7 per cent of GDP to nearly 5.6 per cent, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday.Speaking at the ‘Degrees of Instability: Climate Security in a Warming World’…
ICAI elects CA Prasanna Kumar D as president, Mangesh Kinare as vice-president for 2026–27 PUNE: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has elected CA Prasanna Kumar D as its president and CA Mangesh Pandurang Kinare as vice-president for the 2026–27 term. The new council was constituted at a meeting held in New Delhi.Prasanna…
JAMMU: J&K Police and BSF troopers seized on Saturday over 6kg of heroin, worth Rs 40 crore and suspected to have been dropped by a Pakistani drone, near the international border in Jammu’s RS Pura.“Following information about a drone dropping material from across the border, a joint operation by troopers of 165th battalion of BSF…
File photo: US secretary of state Marco Rubio and EAM S Jaishankar (Picture credit: AP, ANI) US secretary of state Marco Rubio on Saturday said Washington has secured a commitment from India to stop buying additional Russian oil, even as the United States continues to tighten sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine war.Speaking at the…
Former CJI Uday Lalit Honored at Suryadatta National Lifetime Achievement Awards in Pune PUNE: Honouring individuals from diverse fields on a common platform is an effective way of social enlightenment, former Chief Justice of India Uday U. Lalit said. He noted that the presence of achievers from arts, sports, science, economics, accounting, and public administration…
JAMMU: PDP’s Aga Syed Muntazir, who won the Budgam assembly seat vacated by Omar Abdullah in the Nov 2025 bypoll despite an intensive campaign by the CM and his Cabinet, has said his first experience in the J&K Assembly has been positive and that the House remains a powerful institution even though its powers were…
A new study by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), supported by OpenAI, has sought to ease concerns about large-scale job losses due to artificial intelligence.According to the report, generative AI is not triggering mass layoffs in India’s IT sector at present. Instead, it is reshaping how work is organised, improving…
Former England all-rounder Moeen Ali warned Pakistan that India’s spinners, especially Kuldeep Yadav and Varun Chakravarthy, could be a major threat in the T20 World Cup clash. India received a festive welcome in Colombo, with Arshdeep Singh’s dance going viral. The team will rely on key batters like Hardik Pandya, Ishan Kishan and Tilak Varma,…
BharathCloud and Smartail AI Transform Education with Secure AI Grading PUNE: Bharathcloud, an Indian AI-ready cloud services provider, announced a partnership with Smartail AI, Asia’s first AI-powered grading company, to accelerate the adoption of secure, scalable, and data-sovereign AI in education. The collaboration aims to support AI-led transformation across 3000+ schools and universities in India…
Amit Shah addressing a public meeting in Puducherry’s Karaikal NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday accused Congress leader V Narayanasamy of turning Puducherry into an “ATM for the Gandhi family” during his tenure as chief minister of the poll-bound Union territory.The senior BJP leader also alleged that the Narayanasamy administration “sold” PG…
