12+ hour, 27+ min ago   (374+ words) TOKYO: The president of a Japanese nuclear plant operator will step down following a quake data-tampering scandal, local media reported Monday, with the firm expected to abandon plans to restart two reactors. Japan is moving to revive nuclear power 15 years…...

13+ hour, 13+ min ago   (301+ words) THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The fourth edition of the International Kovalam Marathon 2026 which was attended by runners from seven countries was held successfully in the capital city on Sunday. The event, organised by CII Young Indians Thiruvananthapuram chapter, saw participation of about 3000 runners,…...

14+ hour, 28+ min ago   (312+ words) The New Indian Express NEW DELHI: Lieutenant-Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu inaugurated the 48th Annual Conference of the Association of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists of Delhi (AOGD) on Saturday On the occasion, the L-G said Delhi, home to some of India’s leading medical…...

15+ hour, 20+ min ago   (333+ words) NEW DELHI: A network of unregulated mobile loan applications promising instant cash, several of them running from beyond borders, are targeting the blue-collar workforce and trapping daily-wage earners in cycles of debt and extortion. A TMS investigation, involving direct interaction…...

15+ hour, 15+ min ago   (310+ words) CHENNAI: Even as Tamil Nadu grapples with power shortages due to high demand, industrial consumers are asking why they are being prevented from buying electricity directly from the power exchange instead of adding to the burden on the state-owned distribution…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (733+ words) BRICS is proposing a cross-border unified payment system. Can the BRICS bloc replicate India’s UPI model, and what are the biggest challenges to implementing a unified cross-border payment mechanism? India being the pioneer (in unified payment system), we can handle…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (250+ words) NEW DELHI: The defence ministry’s annual report has set out the induction timeline for the Indian Air Force's second tranche of indigenous Tejas fighters, with deliveries of 97 LCA Mk1A aircraft scheduled between September 2027 and September 2033, even as not a single jet…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (261+ words) ROURKELA: After 14 months, Alliance Air is likely to restore operation of its ATR-72 aircraft on the Rourkela-Bhubaneswar and Rourkela-Kolkata routes from October, with negotiations underway between the Odisha government and the airline over the Viability Gap Funding (VGF). The AA,…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (259+ words) BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee president Bhakta Charan Das on Saturday demanded a white paper from the BJP government on actual investments made and jobs created in the state since June 2024. Questioning the credibility of the investment claims during the…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (509+ words) NEW DELHI: The logic that “might makes right” should have been discarded long ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday, as he called on BRICS nations to jointly strengthen ties with emerging markets and the Global South. Xi also…...