Telangana CM assures support to BrahMos Aerospace for its expansion
Hyderabad, June 18 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has requested BrahMos Aerospace to expand its presence in Hyderabad and assured all support from the government. A delegation of BrahMos Aerospace paid a courtesy call on the Chief Minister at his Jubilee Hills residence on Wednesday. CM Revanth Reddy assured the BrahMos Aerospace company […]
Agricultural scientists to spend 3 days a week in farm fields: Shivraj Chouhan
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Wednesday that the Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan has achieved widespread success across the country and would continue as a sustained movement to modernise Indian agriculture and enhance farmers’ prosperity through direct field-level engagement. The Union Agriculture Minister, while […]
Maharashtra govt to formulate policy on agricultural wages: Agriculture Minister
Mumbai, June 18 (IANS) Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Manikrao Kokate on Wednesday said the government is set to take concrete steps to formulate a policy on agricultural wages to enhance agricultural productivity and reduce the cost of farming. The government is promoting agricultural mechanisation through various schemes aimed at reducing manual labour and encouraging the use […]
‘Mountains of Misfortune’: Second tragedy rocks Kedarnath within a week
Rudraprayag (Uttarakhand), June 18 (IANS) An ominous shadow seems to have descended on the Kedarnath pilgrimage with Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district recording two tragedies so far this week – one aerial and one terrestrial – with bad weather playing a role. Two days after a helicopter crashed near the district’s Gaurikund area on Sunday, leaving seven, […]
FM Sitharaman urges fintechs to look beyond cities, tap into rural India’s potential
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday urged fintech companies to focus more on rural India, saying it is not just a developmental need but also a big business opportunity. In her address at the Digital Payments Awards 2025 here, the minister said that the next wave of fintech innovation should […]
SAIL beefs up Indian Navy’s INS Arnala with special steel
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS): Government-owned Maharatna company Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has supplied the entire requirement of special steel for India’s first indigenously designed and built Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC), ‘INS Arnala’, which was commissioned into the Indian Navy on Wednesday. This represents a major step forward towards the country’s […]
Monsoon arrives early in Rajasthan; rainfall in most places of the state
Jaipur, June 18 (IANS) Monsoon made an early arrival in Rajasthan on Wednesday — seven days ahead of its expected schedule. Traditionally, the monsoon reaches the state around June 25, but this year it arrived on June 18 — marking the first early arrival in the last three years. The last time the monsoon hit […]
Khamenei declares ‘battle has begun’ as Iran fires hypersonic missile at Israel
Tel Aviv, June 18 (IANS) Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared that the “battle has begun” after Tehran launched a hypersonic missile at Israel. This escalation has intensified the already volatile conflict, as the military confrontation between Iran and Israel enters its sixth day on Wednesday. Israel has carried out a series of devastating […]
Axiom Mission 4 launch to ISS rescheduled for June 22
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) NASA has again rescheduled the launch of the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS), Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), to no earlier than Sunday, June 22. The decision comes as NASA, in collaboration with Axiom Space and SpaceX, continues to evaluate recent repair work conducted in the […]
Great step toward global progress: Hindu Canadian Foundation on PM Modi-Carney meet
Ottawa, June 18 (IANS) The Hindu Canadian Foundation (HCF) has expressed its enthusiastic support for the recent advancements in relations between Canada and India after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney held bilateral talks on the sidelines of the G7 summit. “This is a great step toward a brighter future, rooted […]
