Washington: India and the US have underlined the need for Pakistan to take ‘meaningful, irreversible and verifiable’ action against terrorists and terror groups operating from its soil as Washington backed the people and Government of India in the fight against terrorism. The two countries exchanged...
Washington: The United States is tracking 250-270 objects of debris in the space generated due to India’s anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test in lower earth orbit, but the International Space Station or ISS is not at risk, the Pentagon said Friday. The US Strategic Command’s Joint...
Jeypore: Accusing the ruling BJD in Odisha of being “insensitive” to the plight of the poor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday asserted that a “double- engine” government of the BJP at the Centre and the state will ensure speedy development in the state. Kicking off...
Dhaka: With the death of 19 more people, the toll from the deadly fire at a high-rise office building here in the Bangladesh capital, rose to 25, fire officials said Friday. A massive fire engulfed a 22-storey building in the posh Banani area here, Thursday,...
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi said Thursday the ‘Nyuntam Aay Yojana’ (Nyay) scheme will remonetise what Prime Minister Narendra Modi demonetised and asserted that his party’s anti-poverty programme has thrown the BJP into total disarray In an exclusive interview to this agency ahead of...
Hyderabad: Claiming there is no ‘Modi wave’ in this Lok Sabha polls like in 2014, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi said Thursday a ‘non-BJP, non-Congress’ front is likely to form the government at the Centre with a regional leader emerging as a Prime Minister. Owaisi, a...
Bhubaneswar: Ahead of crucial elections, senior politician Bijoy Mohapatra, who had quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) four months back returned to the party Thursday. Mohapatra said he has decided to come back to his party after discussions with BJP national vice-president Baijayant Panda and...
United Nations: Mounting the international pressure to designate Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist, the US, supported by France and the UK, has directly moved a draft resolution in the UN Security Council to blacklist the Pakistan-based terror group's chief. Two weeks after...
Bhubaneswar: A day ahead of filing of nomination papers for the third phase polls, the Biju Janata Dal president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday announced candidates for nine Lok Sabha and 36 Assembly seats that will go to polls in third and fourth phases....
Panaji: In a late but politically significant development, two out of the three Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party legislators early Wednesday, split from the regional party and merged their two-member legislative unit into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Deputy Speaker Michael Lobo said. "MGP MLAs Manohar Ajgaonkar...
By Aakar Patel Attacks on Bengali Christians and their churches have begun following the BJP's victory in the state. Last...
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By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of...
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The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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