NEW DELHI: Ramzan and Easter are important dates in the calendars of several fruits and vegetables exporters to West Asia and Europe. Some of them, in fact, source seeds and grow vegetables meant specially for Europe as Jan to April is lean season for cultivation there.“We were ready with our consignments of onions for Europe,…
NEW DELHI: In a big boost for the Navy and Indian Coast Guard, the defence ministry on Tuesday signed contracts worth Rs 5,083 crore for the acquisition of six Advanced Light Helicopters (ALH) Mk-III (maritime role) for the Coast Guard and surface-to-air vertical launch-Shtil missiles for the Navy.While the contract for ALH Mk-III (MR) was…
Authorities have put down a limited fire in the vicinity of the US consulate in Dubai due to a drone strike, Dubai’s media office said on Tuesday.A US official and Dubai’s government media office told the Wall Street Journal that a drone struck the parking lot of the consulate in Dubai.Several Footages are being circulated…
Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a joint US-Israel strike on Saturday, will be buried in the holy city of Mashhad, Iranian media reported on Tuesday, as tensions continue to escalate across the Middle East following the high-profile assassination.The Fars news agency said Khamenei, who died at the age of…
NEW DELHI: The railways is looking at bearing the nearly Rs 90,000 crore additional (83% escalation) cost for the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Bullet train project and won’t seek further loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The project cost has increased from Rs 1.1 lakh crore to Rs 1.98 lakh crore because of delays and other reasons.The…
Apple’s new MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips delivers up to 4x faster AI performance over the previous generation, with Neural Accelerators baked into every GPU core. Storage starts at 1TB for M5 Pro and 2TB for M5 Max, with SSD speeds doubling to 14.5GB/s. India pricing begins at Rs 2,49,900, with…
Iran has warned that continued US-Israeli attacks will trigger retaliation against “all economic centres” across the Middle East, while signalling further disruption to global energy supplies.Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) general Ebrahim Jabbari said Tehran would escalate its response if its “main centres” were targeted. “We are saying to the enemy that if it decides…
NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Tuesday released its first list of 42 candidates for the upcoming Assam Assembly elections, even before the poll schedule was officially announced, signalling an early start to its campaign in the poll-bound northeastern state.Assam Congress president and Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi has been fielded by the party from…
Russia on Tuesday indicated that it is ready to support India with energy supplies in case of any disruption arising from the ongoing crisis Middle East, amid increasing global concerns around impact of Gulf tensions on energy supplies and prices. Reuters citing sources said, “Russia is ready to help India with energy supplies in case…
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday declared it was “too late” for Iran to seek talks, saying the country’s “air defence, Air Force, Navy, and leadership” had been effectively destroyed in US-Israeli strikes, even as he insisted Washington had “unlimited” high-end weaponry and the capability to sustain operations against Tehran far beyond current projections.“Their air…