New Delhi: Congress Tuesday claimed the reasons behind Jagdeep Dhankhar's resignation as vice president are "far deeper" than health issues cited by him, and that his resignation speaks highly of him but poorly of those who got him elected to the post. Congress general secretary...
London: Twenty-eight countries including Britain, Japan and a host of European nations issued a joint statement Monday saying the war in Gaza “must end now” — the latest sign of allies' sharpening language as Israel's isolation deepens. The foreign ministers of countries also including Australia...
Washington: Gita Gopinath, the First Deputy Managing Director (FDMD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will be stepping down from her role in August 2025 to return to academia at Harvard University, the IMF announced. Gopinath, a trailblazer in international economics, will be taking on...
Kathmandu: India and Nepal Monday signed an agreement to implement five "high-impact" development projects related to education and health in the Himalayan nation under an Indian grant assistance of NRs 390 million, according to an official statement. The Embassy of India and Nepal's Ministry of...
Dhaka: A Bangladesh Air Force training fighter jet crashed into a school building in Dhaka shortly after takeoff Monday, killing at least 20 people, mostly children, and injuring 171, in one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the country's recent history. The F-7 BGI aircraft,...
New Delhi: Bihar has become the first state in the country to have less than 1,200 electors across polling stations, the Election Commission said Monday. The poll body recently undertook an exercise to reduce electors per polling station from 1,500 to a maximum of 1,200...
New Delhi: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will accompany Prime Minister Narendra Modi to London for the signing of the free trade agreement between India and the UK on July 24, an official said Monday. The two countries announced the conclusion of the negotiations...
New Delhi: Government Monday agreed to a 16-hour discussion on Operation Sindoor and Pahalgam terror attack in the Lok Sabha, and it is likely to be taken up next week, even as the opposition insisted that it should start this week itself and Prime Minister...
New Delhi: Stepping up the heat on Justice Yashwant Varma, parliamentarians Monday submitted notices to the presiding officers of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha for the removal of the Allahabad High Court judge from whose residence here burnt wads of currency notes were...
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Monday said as the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, it is his right to speak in the House, but was not being allowed while the people of the government were making their statements. Gandhi made the...
The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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By Dilip Cherian The litany of extensions continues. The latest is Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, whose tenure the Modi...
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The angry young generation is rising in protest in India, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland and Serbia, to name a...
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