NEW DELHI: Govt wants to end imports of technology used to monitor and control India’s power grid by 2030, reducing dependence on foreign companies for systems that are critical to keeping electricity flowing across the country.A committee set up by Central Electricity Authority (CEA) to draw up a roadmap for this has found that local…

NEW DELHI: As the annual Shri Amarnath Yatra began on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended his wishes to devotees undertaking the pilgrimage, describing the journey to the holy Amarnath cave as a “matter of great privilege” and urging pilgrims to follow five “Sankalps” (resolves) centred on cleanliness, safety, environmental conservation, support for the local…

BENGALURU: “Individuals shall have the right to complete and connected streets and the right to access any place in an urban area by walk or by cycle.” Those words sound like they could have come straight from the Supreme Court’s June 19 ruling declaring that safe walking is part of the fundamental rights guaranteed under…