The Uttarakhand government has launched a sweeping crackdown across the state to curb the sale of allegedly unsafe and substandard cough syrups, sending 170 samples for laboratory testing. The large-scale action, officials said, comes amid growing concern over children’s safety and medicine quality. According to officials, the Food Safety and Drug Administration (FDA) teams have...

A group of US lawmakers, including Indian-American members, wrote to President Donald Trump urging him to “restore” ties with India, claiming that tariffs had pushed the nation closer to China and Russia.A group of 19 Congress members led by Congresswoman Deborah Ross and Congressman Ro Khanna said in a statement on Wednesday: “Recent actions by...

Leaders of the Andhra Pradesh Teachers’ Federation (APTF) have urged the government to conduct counselling for teachers recruited through DSC-2025 in offline mode. In a statement on Wednesday, APTF State president G. Hridaya Raju and general secretary S. Chiranjeevi said the newly selected teachers were concerned about the government’s plan to conduct web-based counselling for...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after he inaugurated the Navi Mumbai International Airport and other connectivity projects on Wednesday, launched a sharpened attack on the Congress, asking it as to why the UPA government led by it in 2008 went soft on Pakistan after the 26/11 attack bled India’s financial capital. The Prime Minister made a...

NEW DELHI: As Bihar gears up for another high-stakes assembly election, the political landscape is once again abuzz – not with Nitish Kumar‘s next move – but with poetry, posturing, and power plays. From poetic pleas for justice to sharp rebukes over “dignity” in seat offers, alliance partners across the spectrum are flexing muscles and...

Union Minister Giriraj Singh meets JD (U) chief and CM Nitish Kumar. File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Wednesday said, “Nitish Kumar is NDA’s CM face” in the Bihar Assembly elections. The Union Minister ruled out any differences between NDA partners over seat-sharing arrangements for the...