Run for Unity: Sardar Patel gets centrestage
Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves during the 'Run for Unity' at Rajpath. Photo: PTIIn a move replete with political symbolism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually lessened the significance of...
View ArticleLeft parties meet, discuss how to revive fortunes
Decimated at the national level the Left parties met on Saturday to discuss ways to revive its sagging electoral fortune. In a move to try revive itself that the six Left parties, CPI(M), CPI, Forward...
View ArticleJet fuel price cut by 7%, airfares may fall
Air travel could soon become cheaper and airlines could be further tempted to reduce fares as aviation turbine fuel (ATF) rates were on Saturday cut by a steep 7.3 per cent, the fourth straight...
View ArticleUP farmers clash with police, many injured
A farmers’ demonstration demanding compensation in Mathura district took a violent turn on Saturday and left several police personnel injured. About two dozen farmers were also injured.The farmers were...
View ArticleNo National Security Guard cover for regional leaders?
No National Security Guard cover for regional leaders?In a major move to right-size VIP security responsibilities given to the National Security Guard (NSG), the Union home ministry plans to withdraw...
View ArticleJawaharlal Nehru remains part of BJP’s grand plans
Jawaharlal Nehru remains part of BJP’s grand plansA day after eclipsing the death anniversary of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday indicated that the government will celebrate the...
View ArticleAttorney-General says to scrap Rs 6000 crore Navy deal for 8 vessels
The attorney-general (AG) has recommended cancellation of a proposed defence deal for the acquisition of eight minesweeper vessels, estimated to be worth about Rs 6,000 crore, from the South Korean...
View ArticleRahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi camps divide party leaders
Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi camps divide party leadersAhead of the organisational elections, and after repeated batterings in electoral politics, the Congress seems divided over whether Mrs Sonia Gandhi...
View ArticlePM Modi: BJP must reflect diversity
PM Narendra Modi speaks at the launch of BJP’s membership drive in New Delhi on Saturday. — PTIAfter wiping out the Congress from one state after another, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked...
View ArticleUnderstanding the South China Sea
Chinese state councillor Yang JiechiThe issues surrounding the South China Sea have been under the radar of the Asian public for a long time. Except the scholars and people who are directly concerned...
View ArticlePM Narendra Modi takes on dragon
Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung. Let us first look at the basic facts. Four high-level visits have taken place within the past 12 months: Of...
View ArticleCBI never got Red Corner Notice for Warren Anderson
The CBI, which is probing the Bhopal gas disaster, never got a “Red Corner Notice” issued through Interpol against Warren Anderson, former CEO of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) who was the key accused...
View ArticleIndia had intel on Wagah attack
The Indian security agencies had specific intelligence inputs of a possible fidayeen attack being planned near Wagah border. New Delhi had been warned by Research and Analysis Wing a fortnight ago over...
View ArticleChina troops enter land, water in Leh
People’s Liberation Army of China is understood to have made a two-pronged simultaneous incursion recently by sending its troops into Indian waters in the Pangong lake and also five km deep into Indian...
View ArticlePolice disrupts ‘Kiss of Love’
Two supporters of the “Kiss of Love” event try to protect each other as the police lathicharges onlookers. -— Arunchandra BoseAround 50 people, including organisers and sympathisers of the...
View ArticleSecurity beefed up ahead of Jammu and Kashmir polls
Specific reports available with intelligence agencies suggest that India’s most wanted terrorist and chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Hafiz Saeed, has shifted his operational base to a terrorist training...
View Article‘Modi misbehaved with scribes too'
AICC spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala, defending Robert Vadra said that repeated hounding of an individual on an issue that has been “conclusively rejected both by a constitutional body like the...
View ArticleDesign projects of choice, Centre tells employees
Inspired by Gujarat model of governance, the Modi government at the Centre has asked all its employees to design and implement projects of their choice to help it in improving citizen-centric services...
View ArticleCBI wants officers posted in Indian missions abroad
The CBI has sought deployment of its officers in some of the Indian missions abroad for better co-ordination with foreign agencies to expedite execution of its pending ‘Letters of Request’ (LRs) and...
View ArticleClashes in Jammu and Kashmir over Muharram procession ban
Policemen lathicharge Shias who took out a procession to mark the eighth day of Muharram during restrictions in Srinagar. --APThe J&K police and the CRPF on Sunday once again enforced a security...
View Article