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NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad's key role in a group of Congress leaders demanding a "fully active and visible" leadership surprised many in the party given his long record as a loyalist and an astute reader of political tea leaves. Azad's decision to ...

NEW DELHI: When the National Investigation Agency (NIA) began its probe into the Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed last year, it faced a “blind case” in the absence of any solid proof against the perpetrators. The case posed unique challenges, such as a lot ...

NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency (NIA) chargesheet in the February 2019 Pulwama terror attack case, to be filed on Tuesday afternoon, will name Jaish e Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar and his brother Abdul Rauf Asghar as main masterminds and conspirators. Officials said the chargesheet will also put out ...

NEW DELHI: The Indian intelligence establishment is on high alert after being tipped about a meeting between Jaish-e-Mohammed’s de-facto ‘emir’ Maulana Abdul Rauf Ashgar and two top rank ISI officials at Rawalpindi on August 20. Ashgar’s brother Maulana Ammar was also present at that meeting, says a confidential intelligence ...

NEW DELHI: Union minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said Permanent Resident Certificate (PRC) holders will also need Jammu & Kashmir domicile certificate in order to apply for jobs and to get other benefits in the Union Territory. Singh, Union minister for PMO, said an impression is being created in ...

NEW DELHI: Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has said that if everything goes well, India would get a vaccine against the novel coronavirus by the end of this year. Three Covid-19 vaccine candidates, including two indigenous ones, are in different phases of development in India. The phase-one human ...

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI: In an apparent attempt to avoid blacklisting by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Pakistan has issued a fresh notification proscribing 88 chiefs and members of terrorist groups, including 1993 Mumbai blasts mastermind Dawood Ibrahim and LeT commander and key 26/11 accused Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, in compliance ...

NEW DELHI: China is showing no intent of disengaging from the troop confrontation in eastern Ladakh, while further digging in its heels by continuing to build roads, bridges, helipads and other military infrastructure along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) to back its troops at the actual face-off sites. ...

NEW DELHI: India rejected the reference to Jammu & Kashmir in a joint statement issued by Pakistan and China after talks between foreign ministers of the two countries in Beijing on Saturday. In a statement on Saturday, MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said, “J&K is an integral and inalienable part ...

NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s action to place sanctions on Lashkar-e-Taiba commander and 26/11 attack accused Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and 1993 Mumbai blasts accused Dawood Ibrahim was due to pressure from the Financial Action Task Force, government officials said here on Saturday. However, they added that since Lakhvi and Dawood had merely ...