Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday met the Chief Ministers of states affected by Maoist violence and reviewed the operations against insurgent groups and initiatives taken. In a first of its kind initiative since assuming charge at the Home Ministry, Shah chaired the meet attended by Chief Ministers and the representatives of 10 Maoist-hit […]
Former Union Minister P. Chidambaram cannot leave the country. All airports, immigration desks have been put on high alert, as the Enforcement Directorate has issued a Lookout Circular against him terming the Congress laeder a “flight risk”. The development came as a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice N.V. Ramana on Wednesday refused to grant […]
After revoking Article 370 granting special status to Jammu and Kashmir in a seamless manner and the security dragnet in the erstwhile state not resulting in a single bullet being fired, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has begun to focus on the beleaguered economy haemorrhaging in an ugly manner. In his meeting with Finance Minister Nirmala […]
Even as Kerala continues to reel under floods, the state government on Wednesday decided to give an immediate assistance of Rs 10,000 to each affected family, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said here. Addressing the media soon after chairing the weekly cabinet meeting, Vijayan said the damage that has been caused this year is much less […]
Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan, who has been courting trouble in many forms, posted a video message on social media on the occasion of Eid wishing the people in his parliamentary constituency Rampur in Uttar Pradesh. The SP MP, for the first time, has not reached Rampur to celebrate Eid with his family. “I’m fine. […]
A US child abuse activist has fondly remembered the late Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who died earlier this week, as a woman with an “iron will” and also for her help and being very proactive in the case involving the 2017 death of three-year-old Indian girl Sherin Mathews. Sherin Mathews was a 3-year-old […]
The demise of former External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj is not only being mourned by political leaders in India but also by the diplomats of other countries. Several envoys visited her residence today to pay her their tributes. Russian envoy Nikolay Kudashev, who visited Swaraj’s residence to pay his last respect, said: “Sushma Swaraj was […]
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered day-to-day hearing on the Ayodhya dispute from August 6 as a committee appointed to mediate the vexed issue failed to reach any conclusion. In a packed courtroom, a Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said: “The mediation has not resulted in a final settlement of the dispute. […]
Kuldeep Sengar would have remained just one of the 403 legislators in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, had it not been for the Unnao rape case that made it to the headlines on April 8, 2018 when the rape victim attempted to immolate herself in front of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s residence. The event hurtled into […]
Amid Opposition demands for a clarification by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on US President Donald Trump’s claim that the former asked for his mediation on the Kashmir issue, the External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Tuesday stated in the Rajya Sabha that no such request was ever made. “It has been India’s consistent position that […]