Tag: India news

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took a veiled dig at Pakistan during the virtual Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, saying that the bloc should call out countries supporting cross-border terrorism as part of state policy. With Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Chinese President Xi Jinping and ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court will on July 11 start hearing a bunch of petitions, the lead one by IAS officer Shah Faesal, challenging a nearly four-year-old constitutional amendment scrapping the special status of Jammu and Kashmir conferred through Article 370 and its bifurcation into two UTs.CJI D Y ...

Days after the Opposition parties huddled in Patna to chalk out a road map to defeat the BJP in the next year’s Lok Sabha elections, the BJP in a show of unity with National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents in Lucknow on Sunday pledged to make Narendra Modi the prime ...

Pakistan should not provoke India as it is now capable of entering the neighbouring country’s territory and carrying out killings, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday.The Bharatiya Janata Party leader made the remarks at a rally in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district. Assembly polls will take place in the state by ...

Veteran trade union leader, a Kashmiri nationalist and the campaigner of Article 35-A Sampat Prakash passed away on Saturday due to cardiac arrest. He was 86. A respectable name across the mainstream separatist divide in valley, Prakash’s death has been widely condoled in Kashmir. “The JKNC President, Dr. Farooq ...

NEW DELHI: Stung in Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka by facing defeat in the recently-held assembly elections in the two states, the BJP has sought to counter the rival Congress on the matter of providing guarantees to people. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the farmers are getting “guaranteed” Rs ...

NEW DELHI: India has emerged as a major player in the Middle East over the last decade and US has overlooked its geopolitical rise due to its focus on China, an article in a noted US magazine said.An article in Foreign Policy, a magazine focused on global affairs, highlighted ...

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Friday flagged off the first batch of pilgrims for the Amarnath Yatra from the Yatri Niwas at Bhagwati Nagar in Jammu. Amid the chanting of Vedic mantras, the first batch of 3,488 pilgrims set off to the holy cave in a convoy ...

NEW DELHI: India could strike a decent bargain in its multi-billion Predator drone deal with US, with the average estimated cost around 27% lower than what was incurred by other countries, PTI reported quoting official sources.The long-pending drone deal was announced after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's talks with US ...

The northeastern state of Manipur has been witnessing violence since May 3. BJP Rajya Sabha MP Biplab Kumar Deb, who is a former chief minister of Tripura – another northeastern state – believes peace will return to the state very soon due to the measures taken by Union home ...