Pakistan is effectively pursuing Kulbhushan Jadhav’s case in the International Court of Justice as it is proof of Indias intentions to sabotage the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) through “terrorism”, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Tuesday. Speaking to the media, Iqbal said the CPEC was the result of unprecedented friendship between China and Pakistan. […]
More than a month after joining hands with the BJP to form a new government, Bihar’s ruling JD-U on Tuesday said that party is ready for mid-term assembly polls along with the Lok Sabha polls in 2019. Impressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity, JD-U state President Bashistha Narain Singh told the media: “We are […]
A special trial court here on Tuesday directed BJP President Amit Shah to appear as a witness for Maya Kodnani, a former BJP leader and minister in the then Narendra Modi government in Gujarat in a 2002 riot case in the city where 11 Muslims were killed. Kodnani is a convict in the biggest massacre […]
The ruling AIADMK’s General Council on Tuesday annulled the appointment of V.K. Sasikala as the party’s General Secretary and also struck down the appointments made by her before going to jail, including making her nephew T.T.V. Dinakaran the party Deputy General Secretary. In other major decisions, the General Council altered the party’s organisational structure to […]
Broadly positive Asian markets and the government’s push for faster non-performing assets (NPA) resolution buoyed the Indian equity markets during the early morning trade session on Friday. According to market observers, healthy buying was witnessed in consumer durables, capital goods and metal stocks. Around 9.30 a.m., the wider 51-scrip Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange […]
Security agencies and district authorities began a search operation at the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters near Haryana’s Sirsa town on Friday amid tight security and curfew in the area. The search was being conducted under the supervision of court commissioner A.K.S. Pawar appointed by the Punjab and Haryana High Courts. Senior district administration and police […]
The 10th India-European Union Counter Terrorism Dialogue was held at New Delhi on 30 August 2017. The Indian delegation was led by Shri Mahaveer Singhvi, Joint Secretary for Counter Terrorism at the Ministry of External Affairs of India, while the European Union’s delegation was led by Mr. Pawel Herczynski, Director for Security Policy, European External […]
I have noted several objections made by members of the public, mainly those of Hindu faith, in relation to a recent advertisement by Meat and Livestock Australia. Having viewed the advertisement myself, I appreciate the nature of these objections. In my capacity as a local Member of Parliament who is privileged to represent a large […]
The Border Security Force (BSF) early on Thursday apprehended three Pakistani fishermen and seized 14 of their boats off the Gujarat coast, an official said. The fishermen were held around 3.30 a.m. in Bhuj district after a brief gunfight between the intruders and the BSF’s 79 Battalion troopers, a Home Ministry official said.
A minor girl and five labourers were killed in a gas cylinder blast followed by a raging fire late on Wednesday night in an under-construction building here, a civic official said on Thursday. The incident occurred around 10 p.m. in the 13-storeyed Prarthana Building on Gulmohur Road in the posh Juhu area. The blaze trapped […]