New Delhi: The top leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Tuesday described as "criminal and unjustifiable" any act of terrorism and asserted the "inadmissibility" of states using terrorist and extremist groups as part of achieving political and geopolitical goals. The SCO states, subject to...
New York: India's consulate in San Francisco came under an attack from Khalistan supporters who tried to set the diplomatic facility on fire in the second such act of violence within months, drawing strong condemnation from the US government which termed it a "criminal offence"....
Mumbai: A day after joining the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and state minister Chhagan Bhujbal Monday went to meet Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis to discuss allocation of portfolios in the cabinet, sources said. On Sunday, Ajit Pawar led a vertical...
Mumbai: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has moved a petition before Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar, seeking the disqualification of Ajit Pawar and eight other MLAs who have taken oath as ministers in the Eknath Shinde-led government. Jitendra Awhad, whom the NCP has appointed leader...
Mumbai: For the fourth time in three years, Maharashtra braced for a political earthquake as Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar 'split' the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to join the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis...
Nanterre (France): Hushed and visibly anguished, hundreds of mourners from France's Islamic community formed a solemn procession from a mosque to a hillside cemetery Saturday to bury a 17-year-old whose killing by police has triggered days of rioting and looting across the nation. Underscoring the...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court late Saturday night protected social activist Teesta Setalvad from arrest and stayed for a week the Gujarat High Court order rejecting her plea for regular bail and asking her to surrender immediately in a case of alleged fabrication of evidence...
Nagpur: Twenty-five passengers were charred to death when the private bus they were travelling in caught fire after hitting a pole and a divider on the Nagpur-Mumbai `Samruddhi Expressway' in eastern Maharashtra's Buldhana district in the early hours of Saturday, police said. Eight persons, including...
Chennai: The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu Friday strongly asserted that appointment and dismissal of ministers is the sole prerogative of the chief minister and lashed out at Governor RN Ravi for his move of dismissing V Senthil Balaji from the MK Stalin-led Cabinet, which...
Puri: Lakhs of devotees Thursday thronged this seaside pilgrim town of Odisha for a glimpse of Lord Jagannath and His divine siblings, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra's ceremonial “Suna Besha” or golden attire on chariots, a day after the Bahuda Yatra or the return car...
The growing tendency of different state police forces to cross jurisdictional boundaries in order to arrest individuals for their opinions...
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In the past, it was considered rather difficult to contest assembly elections without a recognisable chief ministerial candidate’s face as...
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The Pentagon’s announcement on 2 May to significantly reduce American troop presence in Germany marks a pivotal moment in the...
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By Aakar Patel If you are normal, you have any number of parties you can support and vote for. There...
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