New Delhi: The Supreme Court has been informed that a total of 121 cases are pending trial against sitting and former MPs/MLAs in special CBI courts across the country, and as many as 58 of them are punishable with life imprisonment. However, in over a...
New Delhi: A Ukrainian plane that arrived in Afghanistan to evacuate Ukrainians has been hijacked by unidentified people who flew it into Iran, Ukraine's Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Yenin said Tuesday. "Last Sunday, our plane was hijacked by other people. Tuesday, the plane was practically...
New Delhi: The government’s think tank Niti Aayog has valued government telecom assets at Rs 35,100 crore which can be monetized by financial year 2024, according to the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) released Monday. The Niti Aayog has valued over 2.86 lakh kilometres of optical...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced Monday a Rs 6 lakh crore National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP). The plan will look to unlock value in infrastructure assets across sectors ranging from power to road and railways. Nirmala Sitharaman also said the asset monetisation does not...
Guwahati: The Gauhati High Court granted bail to a student of the IIT-Guwahati. He has been accused of raping a fellow student. The high court called both of them ‘the state’s future assets’. The court was hearing a bail application by the accused BTech student....
New Delhi: India Sunday evacuated 392 people, including two Afghan lawmakers, in three different flights as part of the mission to evacuate its nationals and Afghan partners from Kabul in the backdrop of increasing hostilities by the Taliban and deteriorating security situation in the city...
New Delhi: India Sunday brought back nearly 400 people, including 329 of its nationals and two Afghan lawmakers, in three different flights as part of its efforts to evacuate its citizens from Kabul in the backdrop of the deteriorating situation in the city after its...
New Delhi: An Indian Air Force (IAF) transport aircraft arrived at Hindan air base here with 168 passengers including some eminent Afghan leaders from Hindu and Sikh communities, Sunday morning, the officials said. The officials also confirmed that 107 Indians have been brought back through...
Kabul: Tens of members of armed uprising groups attacked the Pol-e-Hesar district of northern Baghlan province in Afghanistan and cleared them of the Taliban. Ever since the Taliban toppled all but Panjsher province on August 15, the fighters were engaged in their first armed conflict...
New Delhi: Amid reports of the alleged abduction of around 150 Indians from outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul Saturday, local Afghan journalist Zaki Daryabi said that the kidnapped persons were released and they were on the way to the airport. "Two sources...
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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