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New Delhi —  In India, the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has triggered an outcry from opposition parties that accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of targeting the opposition weeks before the country heads into a national election. Protests by supporters of Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, or ...

Taking a short break from the election campaign on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to the Presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, respectively. Although in his posts on X Modi stated that they discussed strengthening India's partnerships with the two countries, it was clear ...

#Pakistan News Scores of members of the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were detained in New Delhi, and sporadic protests flared up across India on Friday against the arrest of AAP's top leader for corruption, just weeks ahead of general elections. India's anti-corruption agency arrested Arvind Kejriwal, the chief ...

Mumbai: Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde has slammed the Opposition for comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Aurangzeb. Reacting to Shiv Sena (UBT) Sanjay Raut's veiled attack at PM Modi, Shinde said the remark was an insult to the nation. Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena (Shinde) chief ...

Several Indian expatriates and even foreigners living in the United Arab Emirates received a WhatsApp message over the weekend that carried a letter from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sought feedback and suggestions on initiatives of the Indian government, Dubai-based newspaper Khaleej Times reported on Monday.Many Indians have also ...

The INDIA alliance launched its national campaign for the Lok Sabha elections at a well-attended rally at the historic Shivaji Park in Dadar on Sunday evening. Leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Uddhav Thackeray, MK Stalin, Farooq Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, Tejaswi Yadav, Mallikarjun Kharge, Prakash Ambedkar, Sharad Pawar and others made a frontal attack ...

NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Thursday justified non-inclusion of Muslims from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan in Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, saying that ‘Akhand Bharat’ was broken earlier to give them a separate Muslim state, as he announced a campaign to mobilise public opinion in favour of the ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday held a meeting with a leader of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, marking the first attempt at an icebreaker between the firm political rivals after February’s contested elections. Less than two weeks ago, ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, took on opposition leaders Asaduddin Owaisi and Mamata Banerjee for their claims that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act was anti-Muslim and said that the law can't be seen in isolation as it carries a history with itself.Owaisi had referred to the law as anti-Muslim and ...

Leaders of various opposition parties on Tuesday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government over the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), claiming the notified rules were “unconstitutional”, “discriminatory” and violative of the “secular principle of citizenship” enshrined in the Constitution. A water canon being used on ...