NEW DELHI : For the first time after February’s Balakot airstrike, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday used the Pakistani airspace to travel to France for a bilateral meet. The airspace had been shut following the airstrikes by the Indian Air Force (IAF) on 26 February. IAF planes had destroyed terror camps in Pakistan’s Balakot […]
When he isn’t being interrogated by sleuths at Central Bureau of Investigation headquarters, P Chidambaram — who has been remanded to the agency’s custody till 26 August — will have plenty of time to mull the various ironies confronting him in his present situation. First and foremost: The reasons why senior counsel Kapil Sibal, Chidambaram’s friend, party colleague […]
Washington: Amazon, Microsoft (MS) and Intel are among leading tech companies putting the world at risk through killer robot development, according to a report that surveyed major players from the sector about their stance on lethal autonomous weapons. Dutch NGO Pax ranked 50 companies by three criteria: whether they were developing technology that could be […]
It was an artillery barrage from a sector that had quietened down. At a time when India was busy fighting a diplomatic battle against China and Pakistan’s joint effort to ‘internationalise’ Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir, the likelihood of a fresh diplomatic salvo coming […]
The agencies probing the case – the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate- visited the senior Congress leader’s South Delhi home this evening but left as he was not in. Late in the evening, the agency put up a notice outside his home and e-mailed him a copy. Three officials – one from the CBI and […]
NEW DELHI: An Indian government panel has recommended cutting the corporate tax rate to 25% from 30% for all companies and scrapping surcharges on tax payments, an official said on Tuesday, part of a major overhaul of the six-decades old tax act. India has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world even […]
Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa knew right from the beginning that he wasn’t going to get a free run to select his team. So when he was in Delhi recently, he let it be known that it was to get the approval of the BJP brass […]