The Latest Breaking News from New Delhi

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Congress’s working president and Patidar agitation spearhead Hardik Patel ended his lately tenuous three-year association with the party on Wednesday through a no-holds-barred letter to Sonia Gandhi, expressing dismay at colleagues in the state focusing more on serving “chicken sandwich” to delegations from Delhi than issues of public…

NEW DELHI: Four key climate change indicators — greenhouse gas concentrations, a rise in sea level, ocean heat and ocean acidification — set new records in 2021, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) noted in its ‘State of Climate’ report released Wednesday. The last seven years, from 2015 to ’21, were…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to Indrani Mukerjea, prime accused in the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora, nearly six and a half years after she was taken into custody in the case, with the apex court allowing her plea on the ground of long incarceration.

NEW DELHI: India own 5G stack will be ready around September-October, communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday as he urged nations to look actively at these indigenous telecom stacks for cost and quality advantage.

NEW DELHI: Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani are profiting from a surge in global commodity prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, burnishing their fossil-fuel credentials even as Asia’s richest men publicly push their pivots toward greener energy.

NEW DELHI: India has stalled the privatisation of state-owned refiner Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limiter (BPCL) as most bidders walked out of the process, according to an official with direct knowledge of the matter.

NEW DELHI: Chief economic adviser (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran on Wednesday said amid global uncertainties caused by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, India is still better placed among the large economies because of an improved financial system and a robust corporate health.

NEW DELHI: Wrestler Satender Malik has refused to apologise to international referee Jagbir Singh for abusing and hitting him during the selection trials for the Birmingham CWG here on Tuesday. The burly 125kg freestyle wrestler has, in fact, decided to quit wrestling and focus on his Air Force job with…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday did a cricket with football as it applied court-devised BCCI reform formula on the All India Football Federation (AIFF) by substituting the Praful Patel-led executive committee with Committee of Administrators (CoA) led by former SC Judge AR Dave.

U.S. Special Coordinator on Tibet Uzra Zeya is also expected to meet with the Dalai Lama

India is looking to domestic firms and eastern European nations for military gear and ammunition, as the world's biggest buyer of Russian arms seeks alternative suppliers at a time when Moscow is fighting a war with Ukraine and facing sanctions.