02 February 2026
New Delhi: The world's largest oil exporter, Saudi Aramco has officially launched its unit in India with an objective to take advantage from the country's rapidly growing appetite for energy.
Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Aramco CEO Amin Nasser jointly inaugurated the company's office in Gurgaon, a move the minister said would take the buyer-supplier relationship between the two countries to a level of "strategic partnership" in the hydrocarbon sector.
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti led team of senior Election Commission officials will begin two-day visit to Gujarat today.
The election commission team will review the preparedness for the Gujarat assembly polls, expected to be held within the next two months.
In a release, state government said officers of the poll panel will meet representatives of the recognised political parties in Ahmedabad today.
New Delhi: The Pakistan government has said only a state has the right to declare jihad and vowed to take strict action against individuals calling for holy war on social media under the country's cyber crime law.
"Only state can declare jihad. No group of people has the right to announce jihad against another group," said home minister Ahsan Iqbal while addressing the national assembly in Islamabad.
New Delhi: Speaking at an event in Amrithapuri in Kollam, Kerala on Sunday, President Ram Nath Kovind has said that the Nation requires more people who use their knowledge for the betterment of the nation and society.
President launched 100 crore rupees Mata Amritanandamayi Math Project "Jeevamritham "to provide filtration system for cleaning drinking water to 5000 villages across India, in kollam district in kerala today.
The President also distributed the certificates to three village out of 12 villages in the States of Bihar, UP, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Chatisgarh, Uttarakand, Maharashtra and kerala, which were adopted by the Math, verified as Open Defecation Free by Swatch Bharat Abhiyan.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has appointed senior advocate Amarendra Saran as amicus curiae to examine documents related to Mahatma Gandhi's assassination after a petitioner claimeda mysterious person had killed him by firing "a fourth bullet".
A bench of Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara initially expressed reservations in entertaining the petition, saying that a fresh probe would help achieve nothing in the seven-decade-old case, but asked Saran to assist in deciding the case after the petitioner claimed to have documentary evidence to prove that Gandhi's real killer was never caught.
The bench was hearing a plea of Pankaj Phadnis, the founder of 'Abhinav Bharat', who questioned the three-bullet theory in the father of the nation's assassination. Phadnis approached the SC after his plea was dismissed by the Bombay high court.
