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Piyush Goyal invites CEOs and industry leaders in Berlin to join India’s growth story New Delhi, Oct 24 (IANS) Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal met several top CEOs and industry leaders during his Berlin visit, exchanging views on fostering greater innovation and collaboration in fields like automotive, semiconductor, renewable energy and infrastructure. Goyal is in Germany to engage with CEOs and industry leaders to boost bilateral trade and investment. He held an “engaging” meeting with Ola Kallenius, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Group. “We discussed the company’s operations in India and their plans for expansion as they are working towards fostering…

Chandigarh: Politics over purported AI-generated videos of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann heated up in Punjab Thursday, with the BJP questioning the association between Mann and Jagmandeep Samra, a Canada-based Indian man accused of creating and circulating the videos. While BJP spokesperson Vineet Joshi said the CM’s complete silence on the videos was “deafening”, AAP targeted the BJP for stooping to “character assassination” of Mann after having failed to pin him down over anything else. Joshi also insisted that the CM should clarify “that he does not know Samra, has never travelled with him, nor has Samra ever organised his foreign tours”.…

HyderabadOctober 24, 2025 08:55 AM IST First published on: Oct 24, 2025 at 08:30 AM IST All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) supremo and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has a question which his party’s former ally, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), has not yet answered. “Where is the BRS’s vote?” Owaisi asked during a conversation with The Indian Express. “The BRS’s vote share has fallen drastically from 34.7% to 15% (between the 2019 and 2024 Lok Sabha elections). How can there be such a huge fall?” he asked a day after his party announced that it would support the Congress’s Naveen…

In the relieved smiles of the Mahagathbandhan Thursday, the anguished tears of Madan Prasad Sah were already history. However, as far as protests by ticket seekers go, the image of Sah rolling on the ground with his clothes torn may linger longer.It was a sabotage carried out in the dead of the night, claims the RJD leader. He left party chief Lalu Prasad’s residence at 3 am on October 19 with the promise of a ticket from Madhuban in East Champaran, Sah says, and returned hours later to find it had been taken away. It was then that the media…

A new electronic eye implant has restored reading vision to people blinded by dry age-related macular degeneration. In a major trial, patients using the PRIMA implant and augmented-reality glasses were able to see letters and words again after years of darkness. Groundbreaking Electronic Eye Restores Reading Vision People who had lost their sight have regained […]

India lauds Trump’s role in achieving Gaza peace deal United Nations, Oct 24 (IANS) India has lauded US President Donald Trump’s role in achieving the landmark Gaza agreement and said it has created momentum for peace in the region. “The landmark initiative of the United States has generated diplomatic momentum towards peace, and all parties must adhere to their obligations in this regard,” India’s Permanent Representative to UN, P. Harish, said on Thursday. Participating in a UN Security Council debate on the Middle East, he said, “India would also like to place on record its appreciation for the United States,…

Israel freezes legislative process for West Bank annexation Jerusalem, Oct 24 (IANS) Israel has froze the West Bank annexation bills that passed a preliminary vote in the Israeli Parliament, or Knesset. Ofir Katz, Chairman of the government coalition, said on Thursday in a statement that the bills for the full annexation of the West Bank and the annexation of the large-scale settlement of Maale Adumim near Jerusalem will not be advanced until further notice. Israel’s Parliament voted on Wednesday in favour of the two bills to apply Israeli law and administration to all settlements in Maale Adumim and the West…

CALLS are growing in Maharashtra for a voter list revision, with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis now lending his weight.After the Opposition kept up its allegations of irregularities in the electoral rolls, Fadnavis said during a Diwali gathering at his residence that he accepted that there were problems and, therefore, a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) on the lines of Bihar was the need of the hour. “We want an SIR in Maharashtra. There are problems with the electoral rolls, and even we have been raising them. But while the Opposition says there are problems, it opposes an SIR,” he said. Story…

The Congress’s decision not to contest the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections and the Assembly bypolls in Jammu and Kashmir has marked its first such move in J&K’s electoral history since Independence.While all four J&K seats in the Rajya Sabha are scheduled for polls on October 24, the by-elections to the Nagrota and Budgam Assembly constituencies in the Union Territory (UT) will be held on November 11. The ruling National Conference (NC) has fielded its candidates for all four Rajya Sabha seats and the two Assembly seat bypolls after the party’s key INDIA bloc ally Congress turned down its offer to…

With senior BJP leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti recently expressing an interest in contesting the 2029 Lok Sabha elections from Jhansi, which she represented from 2014 to 2019, many in the Uttar Pradesh BJP are looking at her statement as an attempt to regain ground in the state ahead of the 2027 Assembly polls.The firebrand Hindutva leader, who has been on a break from electoral politics for the past few years, belongs to the Lodhi OBC community with a significant presence in many seats in western and eastern UP, including Jhansi and its adjoining areas. While…