Shashi Tharoor (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who often leaves even the most eloquent speakers momentarily tongue-tied was briefly stumped this week by a social media user. The interaction elicited a witty and humorous reply from the Thiruvananthapuram MP. India Unites Against Trump’s ‘ECONOMIC BLACKMAIL’: PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi, Tharoor BLAST US…
NEW DELHI: PM Modi on Friday broke his own record for the longest-ever I-Day speech, speaking for 103 minutes in his address to the nation. He spoke for 98 minutes last year. Modi had first broken the record in 2015 with an 88-minute speech. In 1947, then PM Jawaharlal Nehru’s first I-Day speech had lasted…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday used the pulpit of Red Fort to lavish praise on RSS, saying that the Sangh’s contribution to the nation marks a “proud and golden chapter”.Speaking about the contributions of individuals and organisations to nation-building in his Independence Day address, he said: “Today, with great pride, I wish…
NEW DELHI: The “most troubling” element of PM Modi’s speech was his “name-checking of RSS”, Congress said Friday, terming it “a blatant breach of the spirit of a constitutional, secular Republic”.Describing the speech as “stale, hypocritical and insipid”, Congress’ Jairam Ramesh said, “It’s nothing but a desperate attempt to appease the organisation in the run-up…
Visuals from the explosion site BENGALURU: A 10-year-old boy died and nine others sustained burn injuries after a suspected fireball explosion in a house in Adugodi, Bengaluru, on Friday. Image Credit: TOI According to police, the blast occurred when gas leaked from a locked house whose occupants had gone out of the city.Chief minister Siddaramaiah…
NEW DELHI: Airing concerns over infiltration and illegal immigration and their impact on national security and demographic character of border areas, PM Narendra Modi Friday announced the setting up of a ‘high-powered demographic mission’ to address these challenges.Elaborating on the decades-old problem of illegal immigration from across the international border, Modi said it is part…
KANPUR: A 15-year-old boy from UP’s Kannauj survived a cobra bite after he was administered 76 anti-snake venom injections within two hours at the district hospital on Friday. Karan was collecting firewood when he was attacked by the snake. Locals killed the snake with sticks soon after. His family took him to the hospital and…
NEW DELHI: Announcing the launch of an ambitious ‘Mission Sudarshan Chakra’ just three months after cross-border military hostilities with Pakistan, PM Narendra Modi Friday said all important places in India, including strategic areas as well as civilian ones like hospitals, railways and centres of faith, will be given “complete security cover” under it by 2035.This…
A video of NYU graduates went viral as social media users hinted that there were hardly any Americans. A video of NYU students sharing their joy of joining jobs straight after their graduation turned into a controversial one as social media users pointed out that almost none of the students interviewed in the video were…
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat (File photo) NEW DELHI: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said the stray dog issue in Delhi-NCR should be addressed through measures to regulate their population, rather than confining them to shelters – an approach that echoes the Animal Birth Control (ABC) rules mandated under law. Bhagwat’s comments come amid renewed debate…
