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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a meeting on the security situation in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) amid back-to-back terror-related incidents in the state. The meeting was attended by National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and other senior officials, who provided a comprehensive overview of the ...

NEW DELHI: India ranked 129 out of 146 countries, two ranks lower than the previous year with a marginally lower score (0.17 points), in the Global Gender Gap Report 2024 released by World Economic Forum on Wednesday. With a population of over 1.4 billion, India closed 64.1% of its ...

NEW DELHI: Three security personnel sustained injuries in an exchange of fire between terrorists and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district, after an attack on a joint checkpost. Police and security forces are also engaged in an operation to apprehend a terrorist hiding in Seda Sohal village, ...

Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi has been named as the next Chief of Army Staff, and he will succeed General Manoj C Pande who demits office on June 30. Lt Gen Dwivedi’s appointment will come into effect at the end of the month. Lieutenant General Dwivedi held the position of ...

Two additional judges of the Gauhati High Court were on Tuesday elevated as permanent judges. The two elevations are the first ones to be notified after the Narendra Modi government came to power for a third consecutive term on June 9. A law ministry notification said justices Susmita Phukan ...

NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi will take oath as India's Prime Minister on Sunday for the third time at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. The oath-taking ceremony of Modi and his cabinet will be held in the presence of a large gathering of national and international dignitaries. On Friday, the President of ...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to take oath his third successive term on June 8.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured victory in the recent Lok Sabha elections, clinching 240 seats. However, this figure falls significantly short of the impressive 303 seats the party had won in ...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed party workers at the BJP HQ in Delhi on Tuesday after trends data showed the NDA winning an unprecedented third term.Top quotes from his address:Today, is a very auspicious day and the NDA is going to form the government for the third ...

NEW DELHI: A former engineer from BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd, Nishant Agarwal, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Nagpur district court on Monday. This sentence is under the Official Secrets Act for his involvement in spying for Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI. Agarwal also received rigorous imprisonment for 14 ...

The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said that an “objective view” is now emerging in Pakistan, days after former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that his country violated a peace agreement with India in 1999.The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader on Tuesday said that Islamabad had violated ...