India, China discuss ways to push border delimitation

India and China on Tuesday said they had discussed advancing talks on delimiting parts of the disputed border, as National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met in Beijing.

OBC creamy-layer criteria: SC likely to set up special Bench

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider setting up a special Bench to hear the Centre's plea seeking clarification on the applicability of its March 11 judgment on creamy-layer criteria for Other Backward Class (OBC) can-didates of the civil services examination held in 2025.

Escape velocity

India's space sector must focus on reliability and regular launches

F or much of the 20th century, a rocket tear-ing a white seam through the sky did for India roughly what football did for Argen-tina and Brazil. Nations shut out of the councils where economic and strategic weight was mea-sured found, in a game of European origin, an arena where their poverty did not disqualify them.

Jaishankar holds talks with Russian counterpart

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar held wideranging talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, including bilateral cooper-ation, global challenges and multilateral issues.

Rajnath approves missile tech transfer to Indian companies

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved the transfer of technology (ToT) of all conventional missile systems developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to Indian defence manufacturers to promote indigenous production.

Centre moots plan to add 100 vessels to merchant fleet

The National Shipping Board (NSB) has proposed a five-point road map to add 100 vessels to India's merchant fleet over the next five years, a move aimed at reducing the country's dependence on foreign shipping lines for transporting critical cargo.

UN panel flags violations against SC, ST, Rohingya

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD) has said it is "gravely concerned" about reports of human rights violations against a vast segment of Scheduled Tribes, Sche-people in India, including duled Castes, and Rohingya refugees.

HINI makes up 98% of Influenza A cases in India: ICMR chief

The HINI strain accounts for nearly 98% of Influenza A cases currently detected in India, with H3N2 mak-ing up only 2% or 3% of cases, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director-General Rajiv Bahl said on Tuesday.

War weighing on confidence, business says RBI bulletin

The West Asia conflict remains a challenge to the supply commodities, and is chains of oil and other key weighing on business con-fidence, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officials stated in the August edition of the RBI Bulletin released on Tuesday.

Feedstock sourcing is next critical lever for scaling compressed biogas output

While the Centre's latest push for Compressed Bio-gas (CBG) provides a more stable framework for off-take, industry observers and senior government officials say the next major imperative is to establish an efficient supply chain for procuring, storing and managing feedstock to en-sure viability of plants and the quality of output.