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Miss India runner-up, former MPs — UP panchayat polls grab eyeballs with bigshot candidates Candidates for this week’s UP panchayat polls include former MPs Ram Sagar Rawat and Seema Upadhyay, and model Diksha Singh, a runner-up of 2015 Miss India pageant. Prashant Srivastava 12 April, 2021 12:02 pm IST Text Size: A+ Lucknow: Two former MPs, a Miss India runner-up, the wife of an alleged gangster — this week’s Uttar Pradesh panchayat elections are drawing attention for the high-profile candidates in the fray. The four-phase panchayat elec...

Text Size: A+ Guwahati: “The truth is truth,” said Paresh Baruah, the commander-in-chief of the banned insurgent group United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent), or ULFA(I), as he talked about his upcoming memoir.  Speaking to ThePrint from an unknown number, Baruah did not disclose the name of the memoir, but said it would be published in “less than a month or 20 days”. “If it’s not the truth, people will not accept it. If it’s a fictionalised biography, no one would really want to read it,” he added. “My part, to narrate facts, has be...

How Gujarat is building ‘world’s largest’ solar power park, close to its border with Pakistan Simrin Sirur Approximately 30 kilometres from the last point accessible to civilians in the Rann of Kutch, an area roughly the size of Singapore — 72,600 hectares or 726 square kilometres — has been set aside for what is being touted as the world’s largest hybrid solar-wind power park. © Provided by The Print In this remote desert area, where no human resides, the sun beats down relentlessly and temperatures soar to 35 degrees Celsius during the day. Gusts of wind flow u...

Why US climate envoy John Kerry will visit India before Biden summit, UN meet John Kerry is on a 3-nation tour of UAE, India and Bangladesh between 1 and 9 April. In India, he is expected to meet Modi and Javadekar. Simrin Sirur 6 April, 2021 8:15 am IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: “Climate ambition” will be the focus as United States (US) Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry visits India between 5 and 8 April as part of his ongoing three-nation tour to discuss climate change. The 1-9 April tour will also see the former US Secretary of State vi...

Solar power on saffron field: How ‘first-of-a-kind’ project in J&K will produce electricity A draft proposal for the plant is believed to have been submitted and work on the project, with an estimated cost of Rs 50 cr, is expected to begin this month. Ananya Bhardwaj 5 April, 2021 8:21 am IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: It will be a farm where Kashmir’s famous saffron will be cultivated, but also double as a solar power project that is expected to generate up to 10 megawatts of electricity for the Valley. Jammu & Kashmir is set to have Indiaâ€�...