Jaishankar meets Putin, focus on trade, energy, fertilisers, high-tech

Ahead of two scheduled meetings between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putinin the next three weeks, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar called on the latter in Moscow on Monday. Putin told Jaishankar that among the areas of bilateral cooperation with India, Russia is giving priority to energy, fertilisers, nuclear energy and high technology sectors.

Security strategies meet: Focus on tackling terror & infiltration

Union Home Minister Amit Shah Monday inaugurated the ninth National Security Strategies Conference here to discuss key national security issues, including the detection and deportation of illegal migrants and proxy warfare by Pakistan.

The Mecca pact is for joint defence. Against whom?

NATO's travails in Ukraine and absence in the Iran war point to the fact that what matters is common threat perception, not a formal pact. Within the Месса Agreement, the threat perceptions differ.

India, Japan to review trade pact, streamline investments: Official

India is set to review its trade agreement with Japan signed in 2011 with an aim to fix the widening trade gap with the country and streamline committed investments worth 10 trillion yen (over $62 billion) in the next 10 years, a government official said on Monday.

Centre plans to cap airports a bidder can win in next privatisation round

In a bid to minimise risks related to market concentration and over-leveraging, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MOCA) plans to cap the number of airport bundles that can be awarded to the same bidder in the upcoming round of airport privatisation, as per the ministry's submission to Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC) earlier this month.

India is Claude's second-largest market, but ranks 101st in per-capita usage

India is the second-largest market for Anthropic's Claude Al by overall usage, but ranks near the bottom globally when that usage is adjusted for the size of its working-age population.

The finding highlights how adoption of the chatbot remains limited to a relatively small section of users in the country -and India's per-capita income may have a role to play.

Inside Andhra's policy to enforce 'right to walk'

The Andhra Pradesh Pedestrian Safety and Universal Accessibility Policy 2026, notified on August 7, mandates a three-step system: road safety audits, fixing footpath infrastructure (including removal of encroachments) and behavioural change.

The policy will apply to all local body areas. Agencies responsible for roads in cities with populations above one million have been directed to implement it first.

Tracing Ashoka in Ujjain: What new dig at Vaishya Tekri can reveal

The Madhya Pradesh government has begun restoring Buddhist monuments linked to the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, starting with a fresh excavation at Vaishya Tekri in Ujjain.

Initial excavations by the Department of Archaeology of the erstwhile Gwalior State in 1938-39 unveiled large bricks and punch-marked coins here, prompting archaeologists to date the structure to the Mauryan period.