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We persuaded US President to stay engaged "for long term" in Syria: French President Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that Paris had convinced Donald Trump to stay engaged in Syria "for the long-t...
India's trade deficit with China up two-fold in a decade; can New Delhi benefit from Beijing's 'trade war' with Washington? Mumbai: India's trade deficit with China increased more than two-fold (219 percent) from $16 billion in 2007-08 to $51 billion in ...
Donald Trump morally unfit to be president, says ex-FBI chief James Comey Washington: Former FBI Director James Comey says he thinks it's possible the Russians have compromising information on President D...
Worry about yourself, Sonia Gandhi for 2019: BJP hits back at Rahul Gandhi over his dare to Narendra Modi New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday hit back at Congress President Rahul Gandhi over his dare that Prime Minister ...
CM Yogi was ready to get rape accused MLA Kuldeep Sengar arrested but a call changed everything: BJP leader Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is facing massive wrath over the rape allegations against its MLA Kuldeep...
'Tricked' into opening a nightclub says Sakshi Maharaj as UP BJP is left red-faced New Delhi: Days after facing the flak for not acting against rape- accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar, the Uttar Pradesh BJP is on...
Dissent in Congress over candidate list for Karnataka Assembly polls, disgruntled workers create ruckus New Delhi: Shortly after the party announced its list of candidates for the Assembly elections, Congress workers in Karnataka revo...
Fifth column: Hindutva against Hindus? Last week when Dalit protesters blocked traffic on highways and burned public property across northern India, I tweeted that we co...
Across the aisle: Southern flames may scald the nation The Constitution of India obliges the President (i.e. the central government) to appoint, every five years, a Finance Commission (...
China’s state media urges US industry to rally against Trump tariff threat Chinese state media on Sunday called on industrial and commercial sectors in the United States to rally against President Donald T...
Another BJP MP targets govt, says Centre has done nothing for Dalits BJP MP from UP’s Nagina constituency, Yashwant Singh, has written to PM Narendra Modi, alleging that even after being in power for...
Govt committed to protecting interests of SC/STs, says Rajnath ahead of review petition hearing Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, while speaking in Lok Sabha, said that the Modi government has made no change in the SC/ST Act....
Govt withdraws fake news order on PM Modi directive after massive outrage The government has withdrawn guidelines issued last night that provided for penalties in cases of journalists sharing or reporting...
Punjab Congress MPs climb roof of Parliament to demand compensation for Mosul victims In a bizarre incident, Punjab Congress MPs protested on the roof of the Parliament to demand compensation for families Indians kil...
Congress takes war in Karnataka to Yeddyurappa's bastion Shimoga Congress President Rahul Gandhi's Jana Ashirwad Yatre will resume from Shimoga and will head to Devangere today. Congress Presi...
How to tackle fake news legally without a law in India On the just gone by April Fool's Day, WhatsApp groups were abuzz with messages claiming that the occasion was a creation of "Engli...
Japan PM Abe pledges constitution change amid scandal TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed today to press on with his controversial move to amend Japan's pacifist constitution, undet...
SC/ST Act: Par panel likely to recommend review of SC order A parliamentary committee may recommend that the government file a review petition against the Supreme Court order diluting the pr...
Assembly elections 2018: What results mean for BJP, Congress and the Left Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya may be small states, but in the larger scheme of Indian politics, Saturday’s results will have a r...
North Korea Signals Willingness to ‘Denuclearize,’ South Says SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has told South Korean envoys he is willing to negotiate with the United St...
Trump Reaffirms Commitment to Tariffs but Opens Door to Compromise WASHINGTON — President Trump, facing an angry chorus of protests from leaders of his own party, including the House speaker, Paul ...
Emboldened by Modi's ascent, India's cow vigilantes deny Muslims their livelihood BEHROR, India – The beating that ended Pehlu Khan’s life was televised nationwide. Cell phone video captured a group of men punchi...
CBI arrests Karti Chidambaram in INX Media case, Congress says vendetta (News Agencies) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested Karti Chidambaram for allegedly helping INX Media ...
Costume Drama (News Agencies) Justin Trudeau’s easy and infectious candour, all of it framed by his youthful looks, hasn’t ever missed its mark ...
Controversies during Trudeau visit must not affect the broader bilateral relationship International heartthrob, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, succeeded in having the most controversial State visit to India ...
Indian set to begin operations at Chabahar Port by May-end India is all set to start operations on a part of the Chabahar Port by May-end on borrowed Iranian equipment, two senior governmen...
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh gives Canada PM Justin Trudeau list of 9 ‘radicals’ After weeks of speculation over whether or not they would meet, chief minister Amarinder Singh brought up the Khalistan issue with...
Ministry of external affairs says it is ascertaining how visa was issued to convicted Khalistani terrorist Jaspal Atwal. This is something which we are trying to find out. In due course, we will be able to come up with a reason that how he managed to ...
Friction between the US and China is likely to last through 2018 Ian Bremmer In Davos and during his recent State of the Union address to Congress, Donald Trump made clear that he means to get ...
Modi Still BJP’s Trump Card (SAI Bureau) : The first grim tidings came from the state to its south, with the bar graph of success dipping in height conspicu...
Kejriwal’s AAP must rise above its confrontationist image and deliver on its historic mandate The Aam Aadmi Party, which rode to power on a landslide victory in Delhi, has completed three years in government. The new party h...
India should join BRI, says Chinese expert SINGAPORE: India should leave its bilateral disputes with China aside and join the Beijing-backed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), ...
For national and regional players, the stakes are high in the northeast elections In Delhi’s political imagination, the real political battle of 2018 begins in Karnataka. It then ends with the three states of Raj...
Trump Tries for a Reset Where policy was concerned, the story of Donald Trump’s first year in office was simple: The populist of the campaign trail, the m...
The Chief And His Court (SAI Bureau) New Delhi : A pillar crumbled a little. The edifice tottered just that bit. And the world watched, stupefied and tau...
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik suspends MP Baijayant Panda from BJD Seven months after removing BJD’s media-savvy MP Baijayant Jay Panda as spokesperson of the parliamentary party, chief minister an...
Trump APOLOGISES for Britain First retweet Donald Trump has apologised for retweeting videos posted online by Britain First and said he did it because he is a ‘big believer ...
How Trump is making China and India great again Thank you for what you are doing for America; your successes have put India in very positive light and shown us what is possible i...
1984 riots: Delhi court to resume hearing against Jagdish Tytler (News Agencies) 1984 riots: A Delhi Court on Wednesday will continue the hearing in the anti-Sikh riots matter against its prime a...
CJI Dipak Misra needs to reply to grave charges made by SC judges (News Agencies) In two ways, the crisis in the Supreme Court, which erupted publicly on January 13, was long in the making. One is...
India and Israel are all-weather friends There is something intangible yet palpable which makes India-Israel relations special. Every Israeli who has visited India has fel...
Should Trump speak to Mueller? A debate The Washington Post reported last week that special counsel Robert Mueller has told President Donald Trump's legal team that his o...
Turmoil in SC: Time to think in the spirit of utmost deference to duty In the Mahabharata, when Draupadi was gambled away by Yudhishthira, she asked a question: “I belonged equally to all five of them,...
AAP marks entry to Rajya Sabha with three MPs The three candidates nominated by the Aam Aadmi Party — Sanjay Singh, Narain Dass Gupta and Sushil Gupta — were on Monday elec...
For first time, India not being blamed for collapse of WTO talks, says Suresh Prabhu For the first time in the over two-decade old history of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), India was not blamed for the failure ...
All eyes on Gujarat ahead of Assembly election results tomorrow Counting of votes will be held on Monday for the Gujarat Assembly polls, considered a prestige battle for Prime Minister Narendra ...
DRDO has key role in ‘Make in India’ programme, says Nirmala Sitharaman Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has a great rol...

We persuaded US President to stay engaged "for long term" in Syria: French President

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that Paris had convinced Donald Trump to stay engaged in Syria "for the long-t...

India's trade deficit with China up two-fold in a decade; can New Delhi benefit from Beijing's 'trade war' with Washington?

Mumbai: India's trade deficit with China increased more than two-fold (219 percent) from $16 billion in 2007-08 to $51 billion in ...

Donald Trump morally unfit to be president, says ex-FBI chief James Comey

Washington: Former FBI Director James Comey says he thinks it's possible the Russians have compromising information on President D...

Worry about yourself, Sonia Gandhi for 2019: BJP hits back at Rahul Gandhi over his dare to Narendra Modi

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday hit back at Congress President Rahul Gandhi over his dare that Prime Minister ...

CM Yogi was ready to get rape accused MLA Kuldeep Sengar arrested but a call changed everything: BJP leader

Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is facing massive wrath over the rape allegations against its MLA Kuldeep...

'Tricked' into opening a nightclub says Sakshi Maharaj as UP BJP is left red-faced

New Delhi: Days after facing the flak for not acting against rape- accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar, the Uttar Pradesh BJP is on...

Dissent in Congress over candidate list for Karnataka Assembly polls, disgruntled workers create ruckus

New Delhi: Shortly after the party announced its list of candidates for the Assembly elections, Congress workers in Karnataka revo...

Fifth column: Hindutva against Hindus?

Last week when Dalit protesters blocked traffic on highways and burned public property across northern India, I tweeted that we co...

Across the aisle: Southern flames may scald the nation

The Constitution of India obliges the President (i.e. the central government) to appoint, every five years, a Finance Commission (...

China’s state media urges US industry to rally against Trump tariff threat

Chinese state media on Sunday called on industrial and commercial sectors in the United States to rally against President Donald T...

Another BJP MP targets govt, says Centre has done nothing for Dalits

BJP MP from UP’s Nagina constituency, Yashwant Singh, has written to PM Narendra Modi, alleging that even after being in power for...

Govt committed to protecting interests of SC/STs, says Rajnath ahead of review petition hearing

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, while speaking in Lok Sabha, said that the Modi government has made no change in the SC/ST Act....

Govt withdraws fake news order on PM Modi directive after massive outrage

The government has withdrawn guidelines issued last night that provided for penalties in cases of journalists sharing or reporting...

Punjab Congress MPs climb roof of Parliament to demand compensation for Mosul victims

In a bizarre incident, Punjab Congress MPs protested on the roof of the Parliament to demand compensation for families Indians kil...

Congress takes war in Karnataka to Yeddyurappa's bastion Shimoga

Congress President Rahul Gandhi's Jana Ashirwad Yatre will resume from Shimoga and will head to Devangere today. Congress Presi...

How to tackle fake news legally without a law in India

On the just gone by April Fool's Day, WhatsApp groups were abuzz with messages claiming that the occasion was a creation of "Engli...

Japan PM Abe pledges constitution change amid scandal

TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed today to press on with his controversial move to amend Japan's pacifist constitution, undet...

SC/ST Act: Par panel likely to recommend review of SC order

A parliamentary committee may recommend that the government file a review petition against the Supreme Court order diluting the pr...

Assembly elections 2018: What results mean for BJP, Congress and the Left

Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya may be small states, but in the larger scheme of Indian politics, Saturday’s results will have a r...

North Korea Signals Willingness to ‘Denuclearize,’ South Says

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has told South Korean envoys he is willing to negotiate with the United St...

Trump Reaffirms Commitment to Tariffs but Opens Door to Compromise

WASHINGTON — President Trump, facing an angry chorus of protests from leaders of his own party, including the House speaker, Paul ...

Emboldened by Modi's ascent, India's cow vigilantes deny Muslims their livelihood

BEHROR, India – The beating that ended Pehlu Khan’s life was televised nationwide. Cell phone video captured a group of men punchi...

CBI arrests Karti Chidambaram in INX Media case, Congress says vendetta

(News Agencies) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested Karti Chidambaram for allegedly helping INX Media ...

Costume Drama

(News Agencies) Justin Trudeau’s easy and infectious candour, all of it framed by his youthful looks, hasn’t ever missed its mark ...

Controversies during Trudeau visit must not affect the broader bilateral relationship

International heartthrob, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, succeeded in having the most controversial State visit to India ...

Indian set to begin operations at Chabahar Port by May-end

India is all set to start operations on a part of the Chabahar Port by May-end on borrowed Iranian equipment, two senior governmen...

Punjab CM Amarinder Singh gives Canada PM Justin Trudeau list of 9 ‘radicals’

After weeks of speculation over whether or not they would meet, chief minister Amarinder Singh brought up the Khalistan issue with...

Ministry of external affairs says it is ascertaining how visa was issued to convicted Khalistani terrorist Jaspal Atwal.

This is something which we are trying to find out. In due course, we will be able to come up with a reason that how he managed to ...

Friction between the US and China is likely to last through 2018

Ian Bremmer In Davos and during his recent State of the Union address to Congress, Donald Trump made clear that he means to get ...

Modi Still BJP’s Trump Card

(SAI Bureau) : The first grim tidings came from the state to its south, with the bar graph of success dipping in height conspicu...

Kejriwal’s AAP must rise above its confrontationist image and deliver on its historic mandate

The Aam Aadmi Party, which rode to power on a landslide victory in Delhi, has completed three years in government. The new party h...

India should join BRI, says Chinese expert

SINGAPORE: India should leave its bilateral disputes with China aside and join the Beijing-backed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), ...

For national and regional players, the stakes are high in the northeast elections

In Delhi’s political imagination, the real political battle of 2018 begins in Karnataka. It then ends with the three states of Raj...

Trump Tries for a Reset

Where policy was concerned, the story of Donald Trump’s first year in office was simple: The populist of the campaign trail, the m...

The Chief And His Court

(SAI Bureau) New Delhi : A pillar crumbled a little. The edifice tottered just that bit. And the world watched, stupefied and tau...

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik suspends MP Baijayant Panda from BJD

Seven months after removing BJD’s media-savvy MP Baijayant Jay Panda as spokesperson of the parliamentary party, chief minister an...

Trump APOLOGISES for Britain First retweet

Donald Trump has apologised for retweeting videos posted online by Britain First and said he did it because he is a ‘big believer ...

How Trump is making China and India great again

Thank you for what you are doing for America; your successes have put India in very positive light and shown us what is possible i...

1984 riots: Delhi court to resume hearing against Jagdish Tytler

(News Agencies) 1984 riots: A Delhi Court on Wednesday will continue the hearing in the anti-Sikh riots matter against its prime a...

CJI Dipak Misra needs to reply to grave charges made by SC judges

(News Agencies) In two ways, the crisis in the Supreme Court, which erupted publicly on January 13, was long in the making. One is...

India and Israel are all-weather friends

There is something intangible yet palpable which makes India-Israel relations special. Every Israeli who has visited India has fel...

Should Trump speak to Mueller? A debate

The Washington Post reported last week that special counsel Robert Mueller has told President Donald Trump's legal team that his o...

Turmoil in SC: Time to think in the spirit of utmost deference to duty

In the Mahabharata, when Draupadi was gambled away by Yudhishthira, she asked a question: “I belonged equally to all five of them,...

AAP marks entry to Rajya Sabha with three MPs

The three candidates nominated by the Aam Aadmi Party — Sanjay Singh, Narain Dass Gupta and Sushil Gupta — were on Monday elec...

For first time, India not being blamed for collapse of WTO talks, says Suresh Prabhu

For the first time in the over two-decade old history of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), India was not blamed for the failure ...

All eyes on Gujarat ahead of Assembly election results tomorrow

Counting of votes will be held on Monday for the Gujarat Assembly polls, considered a prestige battle for Prime Minister Narendra ...

DRDO has key role in ‘Make in India’ programme, says Nirmala Sitharaman

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has a great rol...

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