PM Narendra Modi (ANI image) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday conducted an aerial survey of the flood and landslide-hit Mandi and Kullu districts from Kangra, Himachal Pradesh to take stock of the devastation caused by heavy monsoon rains.Earlier PM Modi had voted in the vice-presidential election between NDA’s CP Radhakrishnan and INDIA…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Tuesday called for exercising “restraint” in the ongoing GenZ protests in Nepal. It issued an advisory for Indians living there and advised them to “exercise caution and adhere to the steps and guidelines issued by the Nepali authorities.““We have also taken note that authorities have imposed curfew…
White House trade advisor Peter Navarro on Monday claimed that “Indian special interests” were trying to “interfere” in the US domestic dialogue with “lies about India buying Russian oil.” This came after he slammed Elon Musk after his social media platform put up a fact-check note on Navarro’s post regarding New Delhi’s purchase of oil…
NEW DELHI: A day ahead of the vice-presidential election, BJP on Monday hit out at opposition nominee B Sudershan Reddy for meeting RJD president Lalu Prasad, claiming that reaching out to a politician convicted in corruption cases has exposed Reddy’s hypocrisy.Taking a swipe at Reddy, who had sought votes for “saving the soul of the…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Monday exhorted NDA MPs to make Swadeshi a mass movement & suggested that they organise “Swadeshi Mela” to promote indigenous products, stressing that self-reliance is the way to power India’s rise when its increasing strength is bound to face some challenges.Addressing the MPs a day before the vice-presidential election,…
Eight former judges Monday issued a joint statement criticising opposition VP pick & former SC judge B Sudarshan Reddy for his meeting with RJD neta Lalu Prasad, who has been convicted in the fodder scam.The judges, S Khandeparkar, Ambadas Joshi, RK Marthiya, Devender Kumar Ahuja, SN Dhingra, Karam Chand Puri, PN Ravindran, and RS Rathore,…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court has dismissed a plea seeking early release of a convict serving life sentence for involvement in a terror conspiracy of kidnapping four foreign nationals to pressure govt of India to release jailed militants, reports Abhinav Garg.Nasir Mohd Sodozey alias Aftaab Ahmed had challenged the Sentence Review Board (SRB) order of…
NEW DELHI: Sankarshan Thakur, editor of The Telegraph, who brought a lyrical flair to hard-boiled ground reporting, and whose deep and nuanced understanding of national politics, especially of the state of Bihar, made him one of the distinguished journalists of his generation, passed away on Monday after battling cancer. He was 63.Sankarshan’s eye for the…
NEW DELHI: The stage is set for Tuesday’s Vice Presidential election, with National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate CP Radhakrishnan facing off against INDIA bloc’s Justice B Sudershan Reddy.The electoral process will take place in Parliament House from 10am to 5pm, with vote counting starting at 6pm. Both sides have conducted mock polls to ensure their…
KOLKATA: Calcutta high court set aside on Monday a suit challenging the Central Board of Film Certification‘s green light to director Vivek Agnihotri‘s controversial ‘The Bengal Files’, saying the petitioner’s contention about the film tarnishing his family’s image wasn’t maintainable.Lawyer Santanu Mukherjee, grandson of freedom fighter Gopal Mukherjee, moved HC on Sept 4, alleging the…
