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While natural gas makes up just a small portion of Indias power mix, a scarcity of coal and hot weather has triggered scheduled blackouts. (Representational image: PTI)

India turns to expensive foreign gas to ease its power crisis

The purchases are unusual for India's cost-sensitive power generators, which tend to avoid buying LNG at such high rates

5 May 2022 10:14 AM IST

Frances President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (AP)

PM Modi, French President Macron agree to further expand strategic...

Considering India's time-tested friendship with Russia, consultations on Ukraine between President Macron and Mr Modi...

5 May 2022 3:04 AM IST

In the 36-second video tweeted on Wednesday by the MNS chief, Bal Thackeray was seen draped in a saffron shawl with the Shiv Sena symbol in the background. (Twitter)

Raj Thackeray shares Bal Thackeray's old video, ups ante against...

The MNS leader had asked people to lodge complaint with police by dialling 100 if they are disturbed by the sound of...

4 May 2022 1:37 PM IST

Senior Congress leaders KC Venugopal and Ajay Maken

KC Venugopal, Maken in Udaipur to oversee preparations for Congress...

The leaders will stay at Udaipur, also called the city of lakes, for the day to finalise the preparations for the...

4 May 2022 1:08 PM IST

Navneet Rana and her MLA-husband Ravi Rana (ANI file image)

Hanuman Chalisa row: Rana couple granted bail by Mumbai court

The couple was arrested on April 23 following their public declaration of reciting the Hanuman Chalisa outside CM Uddhav...

4 May 2022 12:49 PM IST

Niti Aayog member VK Paul (PTI file image)

Increase in death registration in 2020 not entirely due to Covid...

Paul pointed out that excess death registration increase has been noted in previous years despite a declining death rate...

4 May 2022 12:19 PM IST

Police baton charge protesters after clashes broke out in Jalori Gate area, in Jodhpur, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Curfew remains in force in Jodhpur, 97 arrested after communal clashes

The Jodhpur deputy commissioner of police had issued orders imposing a curfew besides suspending mobile internet...

4 May 2022 11:20 AM IST

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, right, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, talk in the garden of the prime ministers official residence Marienborg, in Kongens Lyngby, north of Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Modi is on a two-day visit to Denmark. (Photo: AP)

India, Denmark sign 9 pacts, to ramp up trade

Modi will participate in the Second India-Nordic Summit in Copenhagen on Wednesday with the leaders of five Nordic...

4 May 2022 1:16 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Denmarks Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen give a press conference in the Prime Ministers official residence Marienborg, in Kongens Lyngby, north of Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 3, 2022. (Photo:AFP)

Modi calls for immediate ceasefire in Ukraine

Frederiksen hoped that India will influence Russia on Ukraine and asked Russian President Putin to 'stop this war and...

3 May 2022 10:47 PM IST

Rahul Gandhi seen at nightclub in Kathmandu (ANI)

Rahul Gandhi seen at nightclub in viral video

The viral video seemingly has a discotheque as its background with people around him seen consuming liquor

3 May 2022 1:40 PM IST

RAF jawans stand guard as a Muslim man walks with children on Eid-al-Fitr, in violence-t Jahangirpuri area, in New Delhi, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Hindus, Muslims celebrate Eid together in Delhi's violence-hit...

Police said they have ensured adequate security arrangements on the occasion of Eid

3 May 2022 12:42 PM IST

A health worker administers a dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a student, amid rise in coronavirus cases, at a government school, in Jalandhar, Monday, May 2, 2022. (PTI Photo)

India's daily cases fall below 3,000-mark, logs 2,568 new COVID...

The active cases comprise 0.04 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded...

3 May 2022 11:54 AM IST