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"Fighting" For Neera Tanden's Nomination To Lead US Budget Department: White House (Insider Bureau)-The White House has said it is "fighting" for the nomination of Indian-American Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Bu...
Stimulus vote Friday morning? What that means for the $1,400 check timeline The first milestone vote on the stimulus package is set for Friday, which brings the delivery date fo...
A budget for a 'project finance economy' This year's budget revealed the mindset of a confident and unapologetic India. In this newspaper, on January 22, I had argued for the need for develo...
No propaganda can deter India's unity, Amit Shah on international comments backing farm stir (News Agencies)- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday slammed international celebrities for commenting on ongoing farmers' stir in India. The s...
Indian-American Bhavya Lal Appointed Acting Chief Of Staff Of NASA Bhavya Lal served as a member of the Biden Presidential Transition Agency Review Team for the agency and oversaw the agency's transition under the adm...
Biden Revokes Trump Rule Ending Work Permit For H-1B Holders' Spouses The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technica...
'Deep displeasure': India sends a stinker to WHO's Tedros over India's map The 8 January letter is the third communication to the World Health Organisation in a month, reminding Tedros and his office to fix the maps (News ...
Trump impeachment risks bogging down early days of Biden presidency The prospect of Donald Trump facing a bitter impeachment trial in the US Senate threatens to cast a shadow over the earliest days of Joe Biden’s pres...
Donald Trump Nominates Indian-American Advocate For Associate Judge In a communique to the Senate on Sunday, US President Donald Trump said the nomination of Vijay Shanker is for a period of 15 years. (Insider Bure...
U.S. Capitol Under Siege - Attack on Washington D.C. WASHINGTON D.C. Angry supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a chaotic protest Wednesday aimed at thwarting a peaceful tran...
Where the United States takes on China Given the adversarial nature of India-China ties, New Delhi has reason to be pleased with the US's clarity. India doesn't want a conflict and will ha...
Beijing aims to humiliate New Delhi. Counter it US support is critical to defeat China's designs. A short-term US lend lease programme for India's armed forces will help meet security needs China...
India, US call on Pakistan to take immediate and irreversible action against terrorism Besides China's aggressive actions across the region and beyond, counter-terrorism was part of the discussions between external affairs minister S Jai...
8 Indo-Canadian Winners In British Columbia Assembly Polls (Insider Bureau)-Eight Indo-Canadians, including a Sikh, have won elections in Canada's British Columbia province as the ruling New Democratic Party ...
How Unpredictable Could This Election Be ? It's not what they teach you in school about the workings of American democracy, but in the year 2000, it seemed distinctly possible that the entire p...
The mistaken Chinese calculation China has been uncomfortable with the emergence of another Asian power. Apart from checkmating proposals made by India at the United Nations and other...
Scindia camp wins big in MP Cabinet expansion, Shivraj inducts ministers with eye on bypolls: 10 points The Jyotiraditya Scindia camp of former Congress MLAs won big at the Madhya Pradesh cabinet expansion. 11 ministers from his camp were inducted in the...
China To Take Countermeasures If UK Extends Hong Kong Citizenship Plan Britain's offer came in response to a sweeping new security law that China unveiled for the former British territory this week. London, United King...
Pakistan: Imran Khan's government is 'muffling critical voices' In an interview with DW, Harris Khalique, secretary-general of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said that PM Imran Khan's government is underm...
Maharashtra Government Moves Supreme Court Alleging Browbeating by Television Anchor Arnab Goswami had moved the apex court seeking quashing of the Complaints and FIRs filed against him by Congress leaders in different states across In...
US tightens restrictions on technology exports to China, Russia and Venezuela The Trump Administration announced new export control actions to prevent efforts by entities in China, Russia, and Venezuela to acquire American techn...
BJP govt waived loans worth Rs 6.66 lakh crore, helped defaulters: Congress Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said he had asked a question in Parliament seeking the names of the country’s top 50 bank loan defaulters but t...
PM Modi gets a SOS message from UAE for Indian healthcare personnel The UAE, a federation of seven emirates with a population of less than 10 million people, has already reported 11,000 Covid-19 cases and has been addi...
The battle in the White House on immigration United States (US) President Donald Trump ordered the temporary suspension of all immigration to the US to protect American jobs for Americans hit by ...
Life in the era of COVID-19 (By Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India) It has been a topsy-turvy start to the third decade of this century. COVID-19 has brought with it many...
Yogi Adityanath’s father cremated in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand CM pays tributes Yogi had said yesterday that he would not attend his father’s funeral to honour the lockdown provisions. (News Agencies) The last rites of Anand Si...
Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan expands cabinet amid Covid-19 lockdown The five ministers, including a woman and two former legislators, were sworn in by Governor Lalji Tandon at a simple function in the Raj Bhawan amid t...
Covid-19 and the contours of a new world order The world will be more integrationist than isolationist. India can play a key role in creating new institutions The world is grappling with the cor...
Why The Giant America Appears Helpless Against Coronavirus In a country with the world’s finest healthcare system and renowned epidemiologists, these crucial early weeks were literally squandered, writes W...
Pompeo dials Jaishankar, says ‘our close cooperation is imperative to combat coronavirus’ In a telephonic conversation, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar regarding the coordination of effort...
One-third of migrant workers could be infected with Covid-19: Centre tells SC The government told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that there is a possibility that three out of 10 people moving from cities to rural areas are carryin...
'First step in right direction’: Rahul Gandhi on govt’s Covid-19 aid package Sitharaman announced a comprehensive Rs 1,70,000 crore economic package for the urban and rural poor to deal with the impact of the coronavirus pandem...
The mechanics of the lockdown The State must minimise pain, ensure basic needs are met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday, announced the most radical, disruptive measure ...
Jammu and Kashmir: Detention is not the answer Booking the former chief ministers under PSA is counterproductive The decision to book former Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) chief ministers Omar Abdulla...
Politics is shifting to the centre-right. Delhi proves it Endorsing the religious practices of the majority, a strong nationalist pitch and populist welfarism is the new normal. Delhi is a riddle wrapped ...
Arvind Kejriwal appointed Delhi CM, 6 ministers to take oath The 6 ministers who will take oath along with Arvind Kejriwal on 16 Feb are Manish Sisodia, Satyender Jain, Gopal Rai, Kailash Gehlot, Imran Hussain a...
Trump administration goes to war with states over Immigration The Justice Department sues California and New Jersey to overcome enforcement roadblocks. The Trump administration dramatically escalated its war ...
PM Modi set to visit Bangladesh on March 17 to bolster ties Officials familiar with the developments told HT that Modi is expected to reach Dhaka the day before the function, and will be the main speaker for 10...
The BJP and Indian democracy Since its victory in May 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)?government has set about vigorously enacting long-articulated Hindu nationalist polici...
'Let bygones be bygones': Sushil Modi's olive branch to Prashant Kishor (News Agencies)- Nitish Kumar's second in command in Bihar and BJP leader Sushil Modi has extended an olive branch to Janata Da...
'India can't lag behind': PM Modi asks young DRDO scientists to spread wings (News Agencies)- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said investment in research and innovation in defence technology is important to...
The Pakistan army is showing its true colours Disturbing evidence has emerged recently of growing public contact between top Pakistani army and security officers and representa...
Indian American community thanks Prime Minister Modi for CAA (By our staff reporter) New York: Indian American community in New York thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for CAA. Addressing...
Targeted Killing of Iranian General Puts U.S. at Crossroads in Middle East (By Michael R. Gordon, Nancy A. Youssef and Vivian Salama for Wall Street Journal) The U.S. drone strike that killed the Iranian ...
Why a weaker Congress is bad news for Opposition unity (News Agencies) Now that the exit poll predictions are out for the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections, it looks like the C...
Trudeau faces rough road as Canada's minority parties lay out their conditions (News Agencies) After eking out a win in the first major test of his popularity since sweeping to power in 2015, Justin Trudeau wa...
Scrapping blacklist a welcome closure, redresses pain point of Sikh diaspora (News Agencies) It’s never too late to undo the wrongs of the past for the sake of a better future. That’s precisely the message...
Trump sues to stop New York prosecutors from getting his taxes (News Agencies) Just hours after President Donald Trump sued to block a subpoena seeking his tax returns, he secured a temporary r...
Govt trying to remove nationalist leaders: Rahul on Farooq Abdullah detention (News Agencies) Rahul Gandhi added that the move will polarise the rest of India. In a sharp attack on the Centre’s Kashmir move,...
PM Narendra Modi in the US: What are the stakes? (News Agencies) Later this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the United States (US) to address the United Nations Gen...
Indian-Americans Urge US Congressman Ro Khanna To Leave Pakistan Caucus (News Agencies) WASHINGTON: A record number of 230 Indian-American organisations in the United States have urged Democratic Congre...
Welcome to USA (SAI Bureau) New York: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to travel to the United States this weekend for his first ...
Iran To U.S. After John Bolton Exit: ‘Put Warmongers Aside’ TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president urged the U.S. on Wednesday to “put warmongers aside” as tensions roil the Persian Gulf amid ...
Trump insists everything is fine as economic anxiety surges (News Agencies) The United States economy is slowing by nearly every major measure, from job creation to business investment. And...
Trump insists everything is fine as economic anxiety surges (News Agencies) The United States economy is slowing by nearly every major measure, from job creation to business investment. And...
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau dissolves parliament, launches election campaign (News Agencies) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked off Canada’s election campaign Wednesday, with polls showing his Li...
Priyanka Gandhi, come back home (News Agencies)- The Congress faces a crisis in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). In the last three decades, it has, in el...
Imran needs a change in strategy and new pair of spectacles to read Modi's India (By our staff reporter)- For Pakistan rulers, Kashmir is the preferred antidote to domestic troubles since independence. When Pr...
India must exploit China's worries about Pakistan Squeeze your friend to save your friend is India's new recommendation to China. That is the implicit message Prime Minister Narend...
The Gandhis: The Congress' perpetual dilemma Perhaps because we are riveted by the scale of Narendra Modi's victory and what it portends for our future, we've somewhat ignored...
Trump and Iran May Be on a Collision Course, and It Could Get Scarier Another Middle East war is the last thing we need. Iran shot down an American drone on Thursday, in the latest sign that Presiden...
People trust Modi to make things better (Agencies)- Last week, in a surprise decision, the prime minister created two new cabinet committees:?one to tackle investment an...
'Make Priyanka CM candidate for 2022 UP polls,' Cong workers tell party (Agencies)- Congress workers on Wednesday demanded that the party declare its general secretary for east UP, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra...
West Bengal has put Mamata on notice (Agencies)- The election of 2019 threw up many dramatic outcomes - the decimation of the mahaghathbandhan in Uttar Pradesh and Bi...
Congress can't have 'absentee' General ahead of state polls (Agencies)- In the absence of the centrifugal force that is the party presidency, the Congress's state units are spinning out of ...
'Reach office on time, avoid working from home': PM Modi to council of ministers Reach office on time and avoid working from home to set an example for others -- these were some of the instructions Prime Ministe...
Trump's Mother of All Truth Bombs Agencies- President Donald Trump unloaded a baffling cargo of wordsWednesday after George Stephanopoulos asked him whether his son...
Donald Trump gets trolled for tweet on meeting Charles, 'Prince of Whales' (Agencies )- There he blows again. President Donald Trump's erratic spelling habits on Twitter spouted again Thursday when he wrot...
Pakistan Must Stop Terror Before Talks, PM Modi Tells China's Xi Jinping China is a strategic ally of Pakistan and is investing considerably in its infrastructure projects. President Xi is expected to me...
This election was like a pilgrimage for me, says PM Modi (Insider Bureau)- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday told his ministerial colleagues that this Lok Sabha election was like a ...
Supreme Court stays Delhi HC order on Black Money Law (By Our Staff Reporter)- The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the Delhi High Court order regarding the retrospective applicability ...
Rahul Gandhi's Big Failure Was to Not Promote Fresh Faces in the Congress (SAI Bureau) : In an informal discussion with Arun Oraon, All India Congress Committee secretary in charge of Chhattisgarh, I sugg...
Rahul Gandhi’s Chowkidar, Rafale slogans fail, Congress wins only a handful seats more (SAI Bureau) New Delhi - As votes were counted in the Lok Sabha elections and trends rolled in, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s mot...
NaMo resonates across India again Wave 2.0 breaches Caste, Class Barriers (SAI Bureau) New Delhi: For a man dubbed on election eve as Divider-in-Chief by Time magazine, Narendra Modi had the last laugh on...
BJP returns to power Riding on Modi Wave in India (By our staff reporter) New Delhi: In a 45 minute victory speech to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday promised ...
The BJP’s challenge in east Uttar Pradesh (News Agencies)- - With the elections entering the final leg, all attention is shifting to eastern Uttar Pradesh.This is where th...
'Duryodhan vs Krishna...': When politicians leaned on epics to hurt rivals (Agencies)- On Tuesday, amid the heat of the political campaigning of perhaps what has become the most bitterly fought election, ...
Congress files affidavit against clean chits to PM Modi (Agencies)- Congress Member of Parliament Sushmita Dev filed a fresh affidavit before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, alleging disc...
‘Not choosing class monitor’ PM Modi breaks down BJP’s election strategy (Media reports) New Delhi: “The 2019 elections are special because it is the first time that those born in the 21st century are ...
Lok Sabha elections 2019 The 54-year-old BJP chief & Gandhinagar Lok Sabha candidate says the 282 number will be breached by a large margin by the BJP; eve...
Cruelty meted out to Pragya Thakur in jail not fair, says Ramdev (Agencies)- Yoga guru Ramdev has come out in support of the BJP's Bhopal candidate and Malegaon blast case accused Pragya Singh ...
Delhi court stays NBWs against Kejriwal, Sisodia (Agencies)- A Delhi court on Wednesday stayed the non-bailable warrants against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his dep...
Actor Sunny Deol named BJP candidate from Punjab's Gurdaspur, Kirron Kher from Chandigarh (Agencies)- Bollywood actor Sunny Deol on Tuesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. The actor-turned-politician will be contesti...
The perils of making nuclear deterrence your campaign rhetoric In early 2002, when India ordered full military mobilisation as part of 'peration Parakram following the Jaish-e-Mohammed attack o...
BJP has to get the national-local balance right After two phases of the Lok Sabha elections, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) - the ideological parent and the organisationa...
Demeaning women is an assault on our politics Women in Indian politics face a double disadvantage. The first is the difficulty in getting a foot in through the door in a male-...
Tejashwi Yadav calls PM Modi 'fake OBC', BJP hits back (Agencies): The BJP Thursday accused RJD leadership of promoting dynasty and using politics for personal "enjoyment", as it hit ou...
'Her personal view', says BJP about Sadhvi Pragya's remark on Hemant Karkare (SAI Bureau) New Delhi: The BJP on Friday distanced itself from the remarks of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur who claimed that 26/11 m...
Watch out for Amit Shah 2.0 (Insider Bureau) New Delhi - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah filed his nomination as the party’s Lok Sabha candid...
RSS seeks compensation from Rahul Gandhi (Insider Bureau) -Days before the first phase of Lok Sabha elections, a Thane civil court has summoned Congress president Rahul Ga...
Balakot Airstrikes are a Replay of Modi's Notebandi Strategy (Agencies)- It was fascinating to view the wave of public approval that greeted the government following India's airstrikes on Bal...
Congress culture is 'anti-thesis of Gandhian thought': PM Modi (Insider bureru)-Prime Minister Narendra Modi has targeted the Congress on the 89th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March, ...
No sacrifice too big to win battle, says Rahul Gandhi on 2019 elections (Insider Bureau)- Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday set his party's tone for the Lok Sabha elections at the Congress Wor...
India general election voting begins on April 11, officials say (Insider Bureau)- India announced on Sunday a general election to be held over nearly six weeks starting on April 11, when hundre...
An election that will shape India Each general election is important. It determines who will govern the State, exercise executive power, shape the legislative agend...
Pervez Musharraf accepts Jaish's involvement in Pulwama attack, but defends Imran Khan (Insider Bureau)- In an exclusive conversation with India Today TV's Rahul Kanwal, Musharraf said Prime Minister Narendra Modi di...
'Not helpless, gave it another shot', Shiv Sena on alliance with BJP (By Our Staff Reporter)- After questions were raised over its decision to revive the alliance with the BJP, Shiv Sena on Wednesday...
Politics over Pulwama: Benazir Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari calls Imran Khan immature (Agencies)- Former Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Imran Khan's way of handling India's al...
Get Trump alone (Agencies)- Ever since he met Kim Jong Un in Singapore last year, President Donald Trump has shown a tendency the North Korean lea...
India to continue growing at fastest pace could be second-largest economy by 2030: PM (Agencies)- Prime Minister Narendra Modi exuded confidence on Monday that India would continue to be the fastest-growing large eco...
Is BJP so afraid of SP-BSP alliance, asks Mayawati after Akhilesh stopped at Lucknow airport (By a Staff Reporter) - Hours after Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav claimed that he was stopped at Lucknow airport on Tuesda...
Brother not married, so sister has come: Amit Shah on Congress dynasty (By a Staff Reporter) - Targeting the Gandhi family, BJP president Amit Shah Tuesday claimed the prime minister's seat is reserved...
Gitesh Desai of Houston awarded Pravasi Bharatiya for his work in building bridges between India & US (By Manu Shah) Houston- Gitesh Desai was presented the prestigious award by the President of India Ram Nath Kovind at a special c...
Robert Vadra leaves ED office after 6 hours, to be questioned again (By a Staff Reporter) - Robert Vadra, the brother-in-law of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, was Wednesday questioned by Enforcement D...
Ex-army chief Gen JJ Singh joins 'genuine' SAD (Taksali) (Insider Bureau) Nearly two months after resigning from the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), former Indian Army chief General JJ Singh (...
Donald Trump's State of the Union speech President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address Tuesday night, a speech that was, in equal measure, surprisingly ...
Sushma Swaraj promises help to Punjab residents stuck in Armenia External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said on Thursday the Indian ambassador to Armenia has contacted the four people from Punja...
In Parliament, Sonia Gandhi thumps desk to appreciate Nitin Gadkari’s ‘wonderful’ work UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Thursday led the Congress in Lok Sabha in appreciating Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari for ...
Bengal Trinamool leader on the run after blast in house; brother detained A Trinamool Congress leader in West Bengal’s Birbhum district is on the run after a blast in his house blew the roof and demolishe...
BJP youth wing, police clash over rising unemployment in Odisha The youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Odisha on Thursday clashed with the police while marching towards the state ...
Centre moves to strip police officers of medals for ‘joining’ Mamata dharna Senior West Bengal police officers, who allegedly participated in the sit-in by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, could get in troub...
Hand-held GPS, common database soon as Assam looks to overhaul illegal immigrant detection system Saddled with a mess of mismanaged data and multiple faulty probes, the BJP-led government in Assam is set to introduce several cha...
Rahul Gandhi to accompany Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on UP visit on February 11 Congress president Rahul Gandhi will accompany Priyanka Gandhi Vadra when she arrives on her first visit to Uttar Pradesh on Febru...
Pakistan Turns to Gulf Countries to Keep Economy Afloat (By Our Staff Reporter)- Prime Minister Imran Khan has opened a new chapter in Pakistan's long history of using its strategic pos...
Afghanistan may be a mess if US troops leave; they should leave anyway. Trump is right. (By Our Staff Reporter)- When President Donald Trump announced that he would be withdrawing half of the U.S. troops serving in Af...
Dawn of new kind of politics, says Rahul Gandhi on Priyanka's new role in UP (Agencies)- Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday welcomed the appointment of his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as general s...
'Most awaited entry in Indian politics': JD(U) no.2 Prashant Kishor on Priyanka Gandhi's new role in UP (Agencies)-Janata Dal (United) vice president Prashant Kishor has described the appointment of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as Congress' ...
PM Modi's rally in West Bengal likely to be rescheduled (Agencies)-A rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi which was proposed to be held on January 28 in North 24 Parganas district's Tha...
Heck, yes, Trump should give his State of the Union Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given President Trump an opportunity to change the dynamic of the State of the Union address, an event t...
Multiple White House aides are 'handling Rudy's f* ups'** (Insider Bureau)-Rudy Giuliani's latest media blitz, which was filled with a dizzying array of misstatements and hurried clarifica...
Mueller team disputes aspects of BuzzFeed report on Trump, Cohen (By a Staff Reporter) Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office is denying aspects of a blockbuster BuzzFeed news report that Presi...
Raj Shah leaves White House to helm communications firm with Clinton administration alum Raj Shah, who served as deputy press secretary for much of the Trump administration, has left the White House and joined a promine...
Donald Trump says little progress at shutdown talks; more on Sunday A delegation of top White House aides led by Vice President Mike Pence will meet again with congressional staff on Sunday after a...
Mamata Banerjee has best chance to be first PM from state: Bengal BJP chief At a time when Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party are bitter opponents, BJP state president Dilip Ghosh on Saturday tri...
Former UP chief minister to contest 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Mainpuri Senior Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav announced that Samajwadi Party (SP) founder and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister ...
Congress is an insignificant force, our tie-up with BSP strong enough to defeat BJP in UP: SP leader Samajwadi Party (SP) national vice-president Kiranmoy Nanda on Sunday said his party, together with the BSP, is strong enough to d...
‘Indecisive Congress was half-hearted on Aadhaar’: Arun Jaitley in new blog post Referring to Aadhaar as a game changer, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley took a sideswipe at the Congress in his latest blogpos...
Tej Pratap and Tejashwi meet after a gap of several months Lalu Prasad’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav on Saturday had a “political” meeting with his younger brother Tejashwi Yadav and reitera...
No political motive should be seen in IT raids on film stars, producers: Karnataka CM Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy Saturday said no political motive should be seen in the ongoing Income Tax raids on top K...
Violence continues to rock Kerala, BJP warns CPI(M) govt as over 3,000 held Violence continued unabated in many parts of Kerala on Saturday ever since two women in their 40s entered the Sabarimala hill temp...
Social media must guard itself against misuse, says Ravi Shankar Prasad Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp have changed the manner in which users consume content and communicate with each other, bu...
No mob lynching in Uttar Pradesh, Bulandshahr incident an accident: Yogi Adityanath Stating that there is no incident of mob lynching in his state, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday termed the ...
Exit polls show close contest in MP, Chhattisgarh; give Rajasthan to Congress Exit polls show a close contest between the ruling BJP and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. In Rajasthan, exit pol...
Michelle Obama opens up about marriage with Barack, seeking counselling Former United States first lady Michelle Obama opened up about her nearly three-decades-long married life with husband Barack Obam...
Sri Lanka top court overturns Maithripala Sirisena president’s order to sack parliament Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Tuesday overruled President Maithripala Sirisena’s dissolution of parliament and ordered a halt to pr...
China in ‘communication’ with United States amid report of Xi Jinping-Donald Trump meet China said on Friday it is in contact with the United States amid reports of a planned meeting between President Xi Jinping and Pr...
Donald Trump vows ‘severe punishment’ if journalist killed by Saudi US President Donald Trump has said Saudi Arabia could be behind the disappearance of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi and warned...
Thousands protest Sabarimala order, devotees threaten suicide in Kerala Ahead of the Sabarimala Temple opening next week for a monthly ritual, Shiv Sena’s Kerala unit on Saturday warned that its women a...
Country owes you a debt: Rahul Gandhi tells HAL workers Stepping up his attack on the Narendra Modi government over the Rafale controversy, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday de...
Kamal Haasan says ready to ally with Congress if it parts ways with DMK Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan has said that his Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM) party is ready to join hands with the Congress f...
Can put anything on website, allegations against minister MJ Akbar need to be verified, says Amit Shah Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah has said that he was not in a position to comment on MJ Akbar, who is facing multiple...
Election dates 2018 LIVE: EC to announce poll dates for Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh today The Election Commission (EC) is set to announce today the poll schedules for Madhya Pradesh,Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram, r...
Pakistan behind those putting up Bhindranwale’s portraits, says Rashtriya Sikh Sangat Supporting Haryana chief minister (CM) Manohar Lal Khattar’s decision to cancel visit to Karnal gurdwara, where portrait of slain...
Mamata Banerjee to invite Kerala CM, Left leaders to anti-BJP rally in January Indicating that even arch rival CPI(M) is not an untouchable in her fight against the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, West Be...
Pakistan’s allegation of use of chemical weapons in Kashmir false, malicious: India India Friday rejected as false Pakistan’s allegations of reported use of chemical weapons by Indian security forces in Kashmir, sa...
The ball is back in Parliament’s court on cleaning up politics The Supreme Court has stuck to the letter of the law in putting the onus on Parliament to frame a law to prevent people with crimi...
To mount an effective challenge to the BJP, the Opposition could use a bit of stardust \Witnessing in London the political chaos created by implementing Brexit, Britain’s departure from the European Union, has led me ...
Our political class must pay more attention to gender equality The Sabarimala judgment will create deep divisions among Kerala’s Hindus for some time. I say this with some certainty after liste...
Aadhaar verdict: Rahul Gandhi thanks Supreme Court for ‘supporting Congress vision’ (News Agencies)Congress president Rahul Gandhi thanked the Supreme Court for its verdict on the Aadhaar Act on Wednesday, saying i...
Donald Trump to U.N. Refugees Should Return to Their Countries and ‘Make Them Great Agai “Ultimately, the only long-term solution to the migration crisis is to help people build more hopeful futures in their home countr...
US asks Pakistan to act against culprits of Uri, Pathankot, Mumbai attacks A joint statement issued by India and the US after the two-plus-two talks in New Delhi on September 6, mentions Pakistan twice in ...
As China courts central and eastern Europe, whither India? In a rare high-level engagement by India in an increasingly pivotal region, President Ram Nath Kovind is on a visit to Bulgaria an...
Manmohan Singh says Modi govt ‘failing on all fronts’ Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government of failure on all fronts, s...
RSS Invite To Rahul Gandhi Has Message For Modi-Shah Too Rahul Gandhi has pulled no punches while attacking the RSS, the mothership of the Sangh Parivar but has also repeatedly said that ...
Some In NDA Don't Want Narendra Modi As PM Again, Says Union Minister Some people in the National Democratic Alliance or NDA did not want Narendra Modi to be the prime minister of the country again in...
Nitish Kumar Ready To Go It Alone In Bihar, Party Insists It's BJP's Loss PATNA:The BJP has begun testing the waters on seat-sharing with allies in Bihar ahead of the 2019 parliamentary elections, claimin...
Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale in US to lay 2+2 groundwork Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale and other senior Indian officials will hold discussions with their US counterparts in Washington t...
Imran Khan’s biggest challenge would be the economy The toughest task that Imran Khan will have to grapple with soon after he becomes Pakistan’s new prime minister is not the securit...
Another attempt to tarnish govt’s image, says Arun Jaitley on Rafale allegations Union minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday there was not a grain of truth in the “wild allegation” against the government on th...
Sushma Swaraj trolling: Centre avoids direct reply on investigation The Union government on July 24 avoided a direct reply on whether an inquiry was conducted into the recent trolling of External Af...
Trump threatens more tariffs on U.S. trading partners President Donald Trump declared on Tuesday that “Tariffs are the greatest!” and threatened to impose additional penalties on U...
Delhi Chief Minister or Lieutenant Governor supreme? Supreme court will decide today Who holds the reins of Delhi — Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal or Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal? It will be known Wednesday when ...
Supreme Court checks govt: Pick DGP from state names shortlisted by UPSC Ordering a slew of measures to push police reforms, the Supreme Court Tuesday directed states to notify the Union Public Service C...
Congress says alliances need to be formed on state-to-state basis The Congress on Monday said alliances need to be sewed up on a state-to-state basis and there can be no ‘one size fit all alliance...
Emergency a ‘black period’, will figure in textbooks: Prakash Javadekar Dubbing the Emergency as a “black period” and an assault on democracy of the country, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today s...
Theresa May says UK to set out new Brexit details after June EU meeting Prime Minister Theresa May told the EU’s Donald Tusk on Monday that Britain would set more details on its vision for a future rela...
Bar Council of India lashes out at Justice Chelameswar for his statements after retirement NEW DELHI: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has lashed out against Justice J Chelameswar for his "controversial" and "irrelevant" st...
Mehbooba Mufti visits Shujaat Bukhari’s ancestral home to pay homage Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti visited the ancestral home of slain journalist Shujaat Bukhari today to offer pers...
AAP dharna LIVE UPDATES: Mamata, Kumaraswamy, Naidu, Vijayan to meet Kejriwal at L-G house The ongoing tussle between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Anil Baijal has intensified as West ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticises US ‘unilateralism’ over nuclear deal Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticised US “unliteralism” in withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and said on Sunday he appr...
Penalty collection from excess baggage not a priority, passenger comfort is: Piyush Goyal Even as the railways collected Rs 189 crore by penalising passengers for carrying excess baggage and from booked luggage in 2017-2...
Centre invites lateral entry at joint secretary-level posts: Here are 10 things to know about it The central government has announced opening up 10 senior-level bureaucratic posts in several departments through lateral entry to...
Nitish Kumar dismisses reports of rift with BJP, says rumours being spread by leaders seeking publicity Dismissing reports of a rift in the JD(U)-BJP alliance, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said such rumours were the han...
Rahul Gandhi to appear in court tomorrow in defamation case Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday will appear in a magistrate court in Bhiwandi here in a criminal defamation case filed ...
Trump-Kim talks to take place in Singapore’s Sentosa Island The summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un will be on Singapore’s southern island of Sentosa...
Donald Trump aide who mocked McCain has left White House job A Trump communications aide who joked about US Senator John McCain’s battle with brain cancer has left her White House job, a Whit...
Assam PCC chief urges Pranab Mukherjee to reconsider decision Assam Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ripun Bora on Tuesday urged former president Pranab Mukherjee to reconsider his decision to...
Madhya Pradesh polls: Congress-BSP pact would have denied BJP 41 seats in 2013 As the Congress and BSP negotiate the contours of a possible seat-sharing deal ahead of three crucial assembly elections, a poolin...
Amit Shah to meet Uddhav Thackeray today to lay ground for poll tie-up BJP president Amit Shah will meet Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday, setting the stage for possible pre-poll allia...
Pravin Togadia slams Modi govt over farmers’ issue, to visit Mandsaur Supporting the farmers’ agitation against the Central government, Pravin Togadia, who was recently ousted from the Vishwa Hindu Pa...
Gujarat Congress to launch 3-day stir for farm loan waiver, MSP hike from June 8 The Gujarat unit of the Congress on Tuesday announced three-day agitation against the state government from June 8 over farm loan ...
Govt’s bid to change UPSC cadre rules unconstitutional: P Chidambaram Former finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday questioned the BJP government’s proposal to amend rules for allocation of servi...
Donald Trump says White House leakers are ‘traitors, cowards’ US President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted those inside the White House leaking internal deliberations and described them as “tr...
J&K special status: Defer pleas challenging Article 35A, Centre to Supreme Court The Centre on Monday urged the Supreme Court to defer the hearing in the petitions challenging constitutionality of Article 35A, w...
Caution PM Modi on his ‘threatening’ language: Manmohan Singh writes to President Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and top Congress leaders on Monday wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind and asked him to cautio...
From a rice mill clerk to south’s first BJP CM, a look back at Yeddyurappa’s political journey From serving as secretary to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to becoming the first BJP chief minister in the south and later...
Will return in 2019, won’t rest until BJP govt in 26 states: Amit Shah Beginning the party’s preparations for 2019 Lok Sabha polls, BJP president Amit Shah gave a pep talk to organisation office-bearer...
Karnataka Assembly elections verdict today, Congress leaders rush to reach out to JD(S) just in case Trying to buck anti-incumbency and retain power in Karnataka for the first time in almost 40 years, the Congress is leaving little...
J&K govt removes officer who issued order for Kashmiri Pandits visiting Kheer Bhawani temple Days after Deputy Commissioner (Relief), Jammu, asked Kashmiri Pandits intending to visit temples in the Valley on Kheer Bhawani f...
West Bengal: Two bodies found charred, CPM claims its poll candidates The CPM Monday alleged that Trinamool Congress workers were responsible for the deaths of two of its candidates who were found bur...
Maharashtra govt to rope in private players for teleradiology Facing a shortage of radiologists, the Maharashtra government plans to set up teleradiology centres in rural and tribal areas to d...
Kairana bypoll: BJP fields Hukum Singh’s daughter Mriganka Singh against Tabassum Hasan The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday named Mriganka Singh, daughter of late MP Hukum Singh, as its candidate for Kairana Lok Sabh...
The unofficial alliance: CPM, BJP and Congress come together against Trinamool Congress in panchayat polls A walk around Mollahad and Manickpara areas in Nadia district shows a graffiti having both CPIM and BJP candidates with their resp...
Karnataka elections: Modi’s speeches ‘don’t fill empty stomachs’, says Sonia Gandhi, PM accuses her of destroying Congress to save dynasty Raising political temperatures in what is perceived as a close fight in Karnataka which goes to polls on May 12, Prime Minister Na...
Pakistan's FIA directed to act against people behind superimposing Imran Khan as Lord Shiva A sub-committee of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Government Assurances has taken notice of an incident where Pakista...
West Bengal panchayat elections: In record show, TMC wins 34% of seats uncontested With still a fortnight to go for the three-tier Panchayat elections in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress has already won 34 per ce...
West Bengal panchayat elections: In record show, TMC wins 34% of seats uncontested With still a fortnight to go for the three-tier Panchayat elections in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress has already won 34 per ce...
Lalu Yadav says ‘don’t want to go’ after AIIMS refers him back to Ranchi hospital, alleges political conspiracy The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Monday referred Lalu Prasad Yadav back to Ranchi hospital saying he is now ...
Modi is looting country, says CPI general secretary Sitaram Yechury Launching a sharp attack on the Prime Minister, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechuri on Sunday claimed that Narendra Modi, fugi...
'Will behead you, chop you into pieces': Union minister Anant Hegde receives threat call Union minister and Uttara Kannada MP Anantkumar Hegde allegedly received a threat call on his landline during wee hours of Sunday....
Venkaiah Naidu may take time to complete consultations on impeachment notice against CJI Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday began consultations on the Opposition parties' notice for an impeachment motion ag...
Venkaiah Naidu rejects notice for impeachment of CJI Dipak Misra, says allegations not tenable Vice-President and Chairman of Rajya Sabha Venkaiah Naidu has rejected the notice for impeachment of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, wh...
Naidu has no power to reject CJI impeachment notice, says Prashant Bhushan After Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu rejected the notice to impeach Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, eminent lawyer Prashant Bhu...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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...

"Fighting" For Neera Tanden's Nomination To Lead US Budget Department: White House

(Insider Bureau)-The White House has said it is "fighting" for the nomination of Indian-American Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Bu...

Stimulus vote Friday morning?

What that means for the $1,400 check timeline The first milestone vote on the stimulus package is set for Friday, which brings the delivery date fo...

A budget for a 'project finance economy'

This year's budget revealed the mindset of a confident and unapologetic India. In this newspaper, on January 22, I had argued for the need for develo...

No propaganda can deter India's unity, Amit Shah on international comments backing farm stir

(News Agencies)- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday slammed international celebrities for commenting on ongoing farmers' stir in India. The s...

Indian-American Bhavya Lal Appointed Acting Chief Of Staff Of NASA

Bhavya Lal served as a member of the Biden Presidential Transition Agency Review Team for the agency and oversaw the agency's transition under the adm...

Biden Revokes Trump Rule Ending Work Permit For H-1B Holders' Spouses

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technica...

'Deep displeasure': India sends a stinker to WHO's Tedros over India's map

The 8 January letter is the third communication to the World Health Organisation in a month, reminding Tedros and his office to fix the maps (News ...

Trump impeachment risks bogging down early days of Biden presidency

The prospect of Donald Trump facing a bitter impeachment trial in the US Senate threatens to cast a shadow over the earliest days of Joe Biden’s pres...

Donald Trump Nominates Indian-American Advocate For Associate Judge

In a communique to the Senate on Sunday, US President Donald Trump said the nomination of Vijay Shanker is for a period of 15 years. (Insider Bure...

U.S. Capitol Under Siege - Attack on Washington D.C.

WASHINGTON D.C. Angry supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a chaotic protest Wednesday aimed at thwarting a peaceful tran...

Where the United States takes on China

Given the adversarial nature of India-China ties, New Delhi has reason to be pleased with the US's clarity. India doesn't want a conflict and will ha...

Beijing aims to humiliate New Delhi. Counter it

US support is critical to defeat China's designs. A short-term US lend lease programme for India's armed forces will help meet security needs China...

India, US call on Pakistan to take immediate and irreversible action against terrorism

Besides China's aggressive actions across the region and beyond, counter-terrorism was part of the discussions between external affairs minister S Jai...

8 Indo-Canadian Winners In British Columbia Assembly Polls

(Insider Bureau)-Eight Indo-Canadians, including a Sikh, have won elections in Canada's British Columbia province as the ruling New Democratic Party ...

How Unpredictable Could This Election Be ?

It's not what they teach you in school about the workings of American democracy, but in the year 2000, it seemed distinctly possible that the entire p...

The mistaken Chinese calculation

China has been uncomfortable with the emergence of another Asian power. Apart from checkmating proposals made by India at the United Nations and other...

Scindia camp wins big in MP Cabinet expansion, Shivraj inducts ministers with eye on bypolls: 10 points

The Jyotiraditya Scindia camp of former Congress MLAs won big at the Madhya Pradesh cabinet expansion. 11 ministers from his camp were inducted in the...

China To Take Countermeasures If UK Extends Hong Kong Citizenship Plan

Britain's offer came in response to a sweeping new security law that China unveiled for the former British territory this week. London, United King...

Pakistan: Imran Khan's government is 'muffling critical voices'

In an interview with DW, Harris Khalique, secretary-general of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said that PM Imran Khan's government is underm...

Maharashtra Government Moves Supreme Court Alleging Browbeating by Television Anchor

Arnab Goswami had moved the apex court seeking quashing of the Complaints and FIRs filed against him by Congress leaders in different states across In...

US tightens restrictions on technology exports to China, Russia and Venezuela

The Trump Administration announced new export control actions to prevent efforts by entities in China, Russia, and Venezuela to acquire American techn...

BJP govt waived loans worth Rs 6.66 lakh crore, helped defaulters: Congress

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said he had asked a question in Parliament seeking the names of the country’s top 50 bank loan defaulters but t...

PM Modi gets a SOS message from UAE for Indian healthcare personnel

The UAE, a federation of seven emirates with a population of less than 10 million people, has already reported 11,000 Covid-19 cases and has been addi...

The battle in the White House on immigration

United States (US) President Donald Trump ordered the temporary suspension of all immigration to the US to protect American jobs for Americans hit by ...

Life in the era of COVID-19

(By Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India) It has been a topsy-turvy start to the third decade of this century. COVID-19 has brought with it many...

Yogi Adityanath’s father cremated in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand CM pays tributes

Yogi had said yesterday that he would not attend his father’s funeral to honour the lockdown provisions. (News Agencies) The last rites of Anand Si...

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan expands cabinet amid Covid-19 lockdown

The five ministers, including a woman and two former legislators, were sworn in by Governor Lalji Tandon at a simple function in the Raj Bhawan amid t...

Covid-19 and the contours of a new world order

The world will be more integrationist than isolationist. India can play a key role in creating new institutions The world is grappling with the cor...

Why The Giant America Appears Helpless Against Coronavirus

In a country with the world’s finest healthcare system and renowned epidemiologists, these crucial early weeks were literally squandered, writes W...

Pompeo dials Jaishankar, says ‘our close cooperation is imperative to combat coronavirus’

In a telephonic conversation, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar regarding the coordination of effort...

One-third of migrant workers could be infected with Covid-19: Centre tells SC

The government told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that there is a possibility that three out of 10 people moving from cities to rural areas are carryin...

'First step in right direction’: Rahul Gandhi on govt’s Covid-19 aid package

Sitharaman announced a comprehensive Rs 1,70,000 crore economic package for the urban and rural poor to deal with the impact of the coronavirus pandem...

The mechanics of the lockdown

The State must minimise pain, ensure basic needs are met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday, announced the most radical, disruptive measure ...

Jammu and Kashmir: Detention is not the answer

Booking the former chief ministers under PSA is counterproductive The decision to book former Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) chief ministers Omar Abdulla...

Politics is shifting to the centre-right. Delhi proves it

Endorsing the religious practices of the majority, a strong nationalist pitch and populist welfarism is the new normal. Delhi is a riddle wrapped ...

Arvind Kejriwal appointed Delhi CM, 6 ministers to take oath

The 6 ministers who will take oath along with Arvind Kejriwal on 16 Feb are Manish Sisodia, Satyender Jain, Gopal Rai, Kailash Gehlot, Imran Hussain a...

Trump administration goes to war with states over Immigration

The Justice Department sues California and New Jersey to overcome enforcement roadblocks. The Trump administration dramatically escalated its war ...

PM Modi set to visit Bangladesh on March 17 to bolster ties

Officials familiar with the developments told HT that Modi is expected to reach Dhaka the day before the function, and will be the main speaker for 10...

The BJP and Indian democracy

Since its victory in May 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)?government has set about vigorously enacting long-articulated Hindu nationalist polici...

'Let bygones be bygones': Sushil Modi's olive branch to Prashant Kishor

(News Agencies)- Nitish Kumar's second in command in Bihar and BJP leader Sushil Modi has extended an olive branch to Janata Da...

'India can't lag behind': PM Modi asks young DRDO scientists to spread wings

(News Agencies)- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said investment in research and innovation in defence technology is important to...

The Pakistan army is showing its true colours

Disturbing evidence has emerged recently of growing public contact between top Pakistani army and security officers and representa...

Indian American community thanks Prime Minister Modi for CAA

(By our staff reporter) New York: Indian American community in New York thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for CAA. Addressing...

Targeted Killing of Iranian General Puts U.S. at Crossroads in Middle East

(By Michael R. Gordon, Nancy A. Youssef and Vivian Salama for Wall Street Journal) The U.S. drone strike that killed the Iranian ...

Why a weaker Congress is bad news for Opposition unity

(News Agencies) Now that the exit poll predictions are out for the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections, it looks like the C...

Trudeau faces rough road as Canada's minority parties lay out their conditions

(News Agencies) After eking out a win in the first major test of his popularity since sweeping to power in 2015, Justin Trudeau wa...

Scrapping blacklist a welcome closure, redresses pain point of Sikh diaspora

(News Agencies) It’s never too late to undo the wrongs of the past for the sake of a better future. That’s precisely the message...

Trump sues to stop New York prosecutors from getting his taxes

(News Agencies) Just hours after President Donald Trump sued to block a subpoena seeking his tax returns, he secured a temporary r...

Govt trying to remove nationalist leaders: Rahul on Farooq Abdullah detention

(News Agencies) Rahul Gandhi added that the move will polarise the rest of India. In a sharp attack on the Centre’s Kashmir move,...

PM Narendra Modi in the US: What are the stakes?

(News Agencies) Later this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the United States (US) to address the United Nations Gen...

Indian-Americans Urge US Congressman Ro Khanna To Leave Pakistan Caucus

(News Agencies) WASHINGTON: A record number of 230 Indian-American organisations in the United States have urged Democratic Congre...

Welcome to USA

(SAI Bureau) New York: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to travel to the United States this weekend for his first ...

Iran To U.S. After John Bolton Exit: ‘Put Warmongers Aside’

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president urged the U.S. on Wednesday to “put warmongers aside” as tensions roil the Persian Gulf amid ...

Trump insists everything is fine as economic anxiety surges

(News Agencies) The United States economy is slowing by nearly every major measure, from job creation to business investment. And...

Trump insists everything is fine as economic anxiety surges

(News Agencies) The United States economy is slowing by nearly every major measure, from job creation to business investment. And...

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau dissolves parliament, launches election campaign

(News Agencies) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked off Canada’s election campaign Wednesday, with polls showing his Li...

Priyanka Gandhi, come back home

(News Agencies)- The Congress faces a crisis in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). In the last three decades, it has, in el...

Imran needs a change in strategy and new pair of spectacles to read Modi's India

(By our staff reporter)- For Pakistan rulers, Kashmir is the preferred antidote to domestic troubles since independence. When Pr...

India must exploit China's worries about Pakistan

Squeeze your friend to save your friend is India's new recommendation to China. That is the implicit message Prime Minister Narend...

The Gandhis: The Congress' perpetual dilemma

Perhaps because we are riveted by the scale of Narendra Modi's victory and what it portends for our future, we've somewhat ignored...

Trump and Iran May Be on a Collision Course, and It Could Get Scarier

Another Middle East war is the last thing we need. Iran shot down an American drone on Thursday, in the latest sign that Presiden...

People trust Modi to make things better

(Agencies)- Last week, in a surprise decision, the prime minister created two new cabinet committees:?one to tackle investment an...

'Make Priyanka CM candidate for 2022 UP polls,' Cong workers tell party

(Agencies)- Congress workers on Wednesday demanded that the party declare its general secretary for east UP, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra...

West Bengal has put Mamata on notice

(Agencies)- The election of 2019 threw up many dramatic outcomes - the decimation of the mahaghathbandhan in Uttar Pradesh and Bi...

Congress can't have 'absentee' General ahead of state polls

(Agencies)- In the absence of the centrifugal force that is the party presidency, the Congress's state units are spinning out of ...

'Reach office on time, avoid working from home': PM Modi to council of ministers

Reach office on time and avoid working from home to set an example for others -- these were some of the instructions Prime Ministe...

Trump's Mother of All Truth Bombs

Agencies- President Donald Trump unloaded a baffling cargo of wordsWednesday after George Stephanopoulos asked him whether his son...

Donald Trump gets trolled for tweet on meeting Charles, 'Prince of Whales'

(Agencies )- There he blows again. President Donald Trump's erratic spelling habits on Twitter spouted again Thursday when he wrot...

Pakistan Must Stop Terror Before Talks, PM Modi Tells China's Xi Jinping

China is a strategic ally of Pakistan and is investing considerably in its infrastructure projects. President Xi is expected to me...

This election was like a pilgrimage for me, says PM Modi

(Insider Bureau)- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday told his ministerial colleagues that this Lok Sabha election was like a ...

Supreme Court stays Delhi HC order on Black Money Law

(By Our Staff Reporter)- The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the Delhi High Court order regarding the retrospective applicability ...

Rahul Gandhi's Big Failure Was to Not Promote Fresh Faces in the Congress

(SAI Bureau) : In an informal discussion with Arun Oraon, All India Congress Committee secretary in charge of Chhattisgarh, I sugg...

Rahul Gandhi’s Chowkidar, Rafale slogans fail, Congress wins only a handful seats more

(SAI Bureau) New Delhi - As votes were counted in the Lok Sabha elections and trends rolled in, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s mot...

NaMo resonates across India again Wave 2.0 breaches Caste, Class Barriers

(SAI Bureau) New Delhi: For a man dubbed on election eve as Divider-in-Chief by Time magazine, Narendra Modi had the last laugh on...

BJP returns to power Riding on Modi Wave in India

(By our staff reporter) New Delhi: In a 45 minute victory speech to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday promised ...

The BJP’s challenge in east Uttar Pradesh

(News Agencies)- - With the elections entering the final leg, all attention is shifting to eastern Uttar Pradesh.This is where th...

'Duryodhan vs Krishna...': When politicians leaned on epics to hurt rivals

(Agencies)- On Tuesday, amid the heat of the political campaigning of perhaps what has become the most bitterly fought election, ...

Congress files affidavit against clean chits to PM Modi

(Agencies)- Congress Member of Parliament Sushmita Dev filed a fresh affidavit before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, alleging disc...

‘Not choosing class monitor’ PM Modi breaks down BJP’s election strategy

(Media reports) New Delhi: “The 2019 elections are special because it is the first time that those born in the 21st century are ...

Lok Sabha elections 2019

The 54-year-old BJP chief & Gandhinagar Lok Sabha candidate says the 282 number will be breached by a large margin by the BJP; eve...

Cruelty meted out to Pragya Thakur in jail not fair, says Ramdev

(Agencies)- Yoga guru Ramdev has come out in support of the BJP's Bhopal candidate and Malegaon blast case accused Pragya Singh ...

Delhi court stays NBWs against Kejriwal, Sisodia

(Agencies)- A Delhi court on Wednesday stayed the non-bailable warrants against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his dep...

Actor Sunny Deol named BJP candidate from Punjab's Gurdaspur, Kirron Kher from Chandigarh

(Agencies)- Bollywood actor Sunny Deol on Tuesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. The actor-turned-politician will be contesti...

The perils of making nuclear deterrence your campaign rhetoric

In early 2002, when India ordered full military mobilisation as part of 'peration Parakram following the Jaish-e-Mohammed attack o...

BJP has to get the national-local balance right

After two phases of the Lok Sabha elections, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) - the ideological parent and the organisationa...

Demeaning women is an assault on our politics

Women in Indian politics face a double disadvantage. The first is the difficulty in getting a foot in through the door in a male-...

Tejashwi Yadav calls PM Modi 'fake OBC', BJP hits back

(Agencies): The BJP Thursday accused RJD leadership of promoting dynasty and using politics for personal "enjoyment", as it hit ou...

'Her personal view', says BJP about Sadhvi Pragya's remark on Hemant Karkare

(SAI Bureau) New Delhi: The BJP on Friday distanced itself from the remarks of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur who claimed that 26/11 m...

Watch out for Amit Shah 2.0

(Insider Bureau) New Delhi - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah filed his nomination as the party’s Lok Sabha candid...

RSS seeks compensation from Rahul Gandhi

(Insider Bureau) -Days before the first phase of Lok Sabha elections, a Thane civil court has summoned Congress president Rahul Ga...

Balakot Airstrikes are a Replay of Modi's Notebandi Strategy

(Agencies)- It was fascinating to view the wave of public approval that greeted the government following India's airstrikes on Bal...

Congress culture is 'anti-thesis of Gandhian thought': PM Modi

(Insider bureru)-Prime Minister Narendra Modi has targeted the Congress on the 89th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March, ...

No sacrifice too big to win battle, says Rahul Gandhi on 2019 elections

(Insider Bureau)- Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday set his party's tone for the Lok Sabha elections at the Congress Wor...

India general election voting begins on April 11, officials say

(Insider Bureau)- India announced on Sunday a general election to be held over nearly six weeks starting on April 11, when hundre...

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Each general election is important. It determines who will govern the State, exercise executive power, shape the legislative agend...

Pervez Musharraf accepts Jaish's involvement in Pulwama attack, but defends Imran Khan

(Insider Bureau)- In an exclusive conversation with India Today TV's Rahul Kanwal, Musharraf said Prime Minister Narendra Modi di...

'Not helpless, gave it another shot', Shiv Sena on alliance with BJP

(By Our Staff Reporter)- After questions were raised over its decision to revive the alliance with the BJP, Shiv Sena on Wednesday...

Politics over Pulwama: Benazir Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari calls Imran Khan immature

(Agencies)- Former Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Imran Khan's way of handling India's al...

Get Trump alone

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India to continue growing at fastest pace could be second-largest economy by 2030: PM

(Agencies)- Prime Minister Narendra Modi exuded confidence on Monday that India would continue to be the fastest-growing large eco...

Is BJP so afraid of SP-BSP alliance, asks Mayawati after Akhilesh stopped at Lucknow airport

(By a Staff Reporter) - Hours after Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav claimed that he was stopped at Lucknow airport on Tuesda...

Brother not married, so sister has come: Amit Shah on Congress dynasty

(By a Staff Reporter) - Targeting the Gandhi family, BJP president Amit Shah Tuesday claimed the prime minister's seat is reserved...

Gitesh Desai of Houston awarded Pravasi Bharatiya for his work in building bridges between India & US

(By Manu Shah) Houston- Gitesh Desai was presented the prestigious award by the President of India Ram Nath Kovind at a special c...

Robert Vadra leaves ED office after 6 hours, to be questioned again

(By a Staff Reporter) - Robert Vadra, the brother-in-law of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, was Wednesday questioned by Enforcement D...

Ex-army chief Gen JJ Singh joins 'genuine' SAD (Taksali)

(Insider Bureau) Nearly two months after resigning from the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), former Indian Army chief General JJ Singh (...

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President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address Tuesday night, a speech that was, in equal measure, surprisingly ...

Sushma Swaraj promises help to Punjab residents stuck in Armenia

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said on Thursday the Indian ambassador to Armenia has contacted the four people from Punja...

In Parliament, Sonia Gandhi thumps desk to appreciate Nitin Gadkari’s ‘wonderful’ work

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Thursday led the Congress in Lok Sabha in appreciating Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari for ...

Bengal Trinamool leader on the run after blast in house; brother detained

A Trinamool Congress leader in West Bengal’s Birbhum district is on the run after a blast in his house blew the roof and demolishe...

BJP youth wing, police clash over rising unemployment in Odisha

The youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Odisha on Thursday clashed with the police while marching towards the state ...

Centre moves to strip police officers of medals for ‘joining’ Mamata dharna

Senior West Bengal police officers, who allegedly participated in the sit-in by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, could get in troub...

Hand-held GPS, common database soon as Assam looks to overhaul illegal immigrant detection system

Saddled with a mess of mismanaged data and multiple faulty probes, the BJP-led government in Assam is set to introduce several cha...

Rahul Gandhi to accompany Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on UP visit on February 11

Congress president Rahul Gandhi will accompany Priyanka Gandhi Vadra when she arrives on her first visit to Uttar Pradesh on Febru...

Pakistan Turns to Gulf Countries to Keep Economy Afloat

(By Our Staff Reporter)- Prime Minister Imran Khan has opened a new chapter in Pakistan's long history of using its strategic pos...

Afghanistan may be a mess if US troops leave; they should leave anyway. Trump is right.

(By Our Staff Reporter)- When President Donald Trump announced that he would be withdrawing half of the U.S. troops serving in Af...

Dawn of new kind of politics, says Rahul Gandhi on Priyanka's new role in UP

(Agencies)- Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday welcomed the appointment of his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as general s...

'Most awaited entry in Indian politics': JD(U) no.2 Prashant Kishor on Priyanka Gandhi's new role in UP

(Agencies)-Janata Dal (United) vice president Prashant Kishor has described the appointment of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as Congress' ...

PM Modi's rally in West Bengal likely to be rescheduled

(Agencies)-A rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi which was proposed to be held on January 28 in North 24 Parganas district's Tha...

Heck, yes, Trump should give his State of the Union

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given President Trump an opportunity to change the dynamic of the State of the Union address, an event t...

Multiple White House aides are 'handling Rudy's f*** ups'

(Insider Bureau)-Rudy Giuliani's latest media blitz, which was filled with a dizzying array of misstatements and hurried clarifica...

Mueller team disputes aspects of BuzzFeed report on Trump, Cohen

(By a Staff Reporter) Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office is denying aspects of a blockbuster BuzzFeed news report that Presi...

Raj Shah leaves White House to helm communications firm with Clinton administration alum

Raj Shah, who served as deputy press secretary for much of the Trump administration, has left the White House and joined a promine...

Donald Trump says little progress at shutdown talks; more on Sunday

A delegation of top White House aides led by Vice President Mike Pence will meet again with congressional staff on Sunday after a...

Mamata Banerjee has best chance to be first PM from state: Bengal BJP chief

At a time when Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party are bitter opponents, BJP state president Dilip Ghosh on Saturday tri...

Former UP chief minister to contest 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Mainpuri

Senior Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav announced that Samajwadi Party (SP) founder and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister ...

Congress is an insignificant force, our tie-up with BSP strong enough to defeat BJP in UP: SP leader

Samajwadi Party (SP) national vice-president Kiranmoy Nanda on Sunday said his party, together with the BSP, is strong enough to d...

‘Indecisive Congress was half-hearted on Aadhaar’: Arun Jaitley in new blog post

Referring to Aadhaar as a game changer, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley took a sideswipe at the Congress in his latest blogpos...

Tej Pratap and Tejashwi meet after a gap of several months

Lalu Prasad’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav on Saturday had a “political” meeting with his younger brother Tejashwi Yadav and reitera...

No political motive should be seen in IT raids on film stars, producers: Karnataka CM

Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy Saturday said no political motive should be seen in the ongoing Income Tax raids on top K...

Violence continues to rock Kerala, BJP warns CPI(M) govt as over 3,000 held

Violence continued unabated in many parts of Kerala on Saturday ever since two women in their 40s entered the Sabarimala hill temp...

Social media must guard itself against misuse, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp have changed the manner in which users consume content and communicate with each other, bu...

No mob lynching in Uttar Pradesh, Bulandshahr incident an accident: Yogi Adityanath

Stating that there is no incident of mob lynching in his state, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday termed the ...

Exit polls show close contest in MP, Chhattisgarh; give Rajasthan to Congress

Exit polls show a close contest between the ruling BJP and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. In Rajasthan, exit pol...

Michelle Obama opens up about marriage with Barack, seeking counselling

Former United States first lady Michelle Obama opened up about her nearly three-decades-long married life with husband Barack Obam...

Sri Lanka top court overturns Maithripala Sirisena president’s order to sack parliament

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Tuesday overruled President Maithripala Sirisena’s dissolution of parliament and ordered a halt to pr...

China in ‘communication’ with United States amid report of Xi Jinping-Donald Trump meet

China said on Friday it is in contact with the United States amid reports of a planned meeting between President Xi Jinping and Pr...

Donald Trump vows ‘severe punishment’ if journalist killed by Saudi

US President Donald Trump has said Saudi Arabia could be behind the disappearance of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi and warned...

Thousands protest Sabarimala order, devotees threaten suicide in Kerala

Ahead of the Sabarimala Temple opening next week for a monthly ritual, Shiv Sena’s Kerala unit on Saturday warned that its women a...

Country owes you a debt: Rahul Gandhi tells HAL workers

Stepping up his attack on the Narendra Modi government over the Rafale controversy, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday de...

Kamal Haasan says ready to ally with Congress if it parts ways with DMK

Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan has said that his Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM) party is ready to join hands with the Congress f...

Can put anything on website, allegations against minister MJ Akbar need to be verified, says Amit Shah

Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah has said that he was not in a position to comment on MJ Akbar, who is facing multiple...

Election dates 2018 LIVE: EC to announce poll dates for Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh today

The Election Commission (EC) is set to announce today the poll schedules for Madhya Pradesh,Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram, r...

Pakistan behind those putting up Bhindranwale’s portraits, says Rashtriya Sikh Sangat

Supporting Haryana chief minister (CM) Manohar Lal Khattar’s decision to cancel visit to Karnal gurdwara, where portrait of slain...

Mamata Banerjee to invite Kerala CM, Left leaders to anti-BJP rally in January

Indicating that even arch rival CPI(M) is not an untouchable in her fight against the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, West Be...

Pakistan’s allegation of use of chemical weapons in Kashmir false, malicious: India

India Friday rejected as false Pakistan’s allegations of reported use of chemical weapons by Indian security forces in Kashmir, sa...

The ball is back in Parliament’s court on cleaning up politics

The Supreme Court has stuck to the letter of the law in putting the onus on Parliament to frame a law to prevent people with crimi...

To mount an effective challenge to the BJP, the Opposition could use a bit of stardust

\Witnessing in London the political chaos created by implementing Brexit, Britain’s departure from the European Union, has led me ...

Our political class must pay more attention to gender equality

The Sabarimala judgment will create deep divisions among Kerala’s Hindus for some time. I say this with some certainty after liste...

Aadhaar verdict: Rahul Gandhi thanks Supreme Court for ‘supporting Congress vision’

(News Agencies)Congress president Rahul Gandhi thanked the Supreme Court for its verdict on the Aadhaar Act on Wednesday, saying i...

Donald Trump to U.N. Refugees Should Return to Their Countries and ‘Make Them Great Agai

“Ultimately, the only long-term solution to the migration crisis is to help people build more hopeful futures in their home countr...

US asks Pakistan to act against culprits of Uri, Pathankot, Mumbai attacks

A joint statement issued by India and the US after the two-plus-two talks in New Delhi on September 6, mentions Pakistan twice in ...

As China courts central and eastern Europe, whither India?

In a rare high-level engagement by India in an increasingly pivotal region, President Ram Nath Kovind is on a visit to Bulgaria an...

Manmohan Singh says Modi govt ‘failing on all fronts’

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government of failure on all fronts, s...

RSS Invite To Rahul Gandhi Has Message For Modi-Shah Too

Rahul Gandhi has pulled no punches while attacking the RSS, the mothership of the Sangh Parivar but has also repeatedly said that ...

Some In NDA Don't Want Narendra Modi As PM Again, Says Union Minister

Some people in the National Democratic Alliance or NDA did not want Narendra Modi to be the prime minister of the country again in...

Nitish Kumar Ready To Go It Alone In Bihar, Party Insists It's BJP's Loss

PATNA:The BJP has begun testing the waters on seat-sharing with allies in Bihar ahead of the 2019 parliamentary elections, claimin...

Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale in US to lay 2+2 groundwork

Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale and other senior Indian officials will hold discussions with their US counterparts in Washington t...

Imran Khan’s biggest challenge would be the economy

The toughest task that Imran Khan will have to grapple with soon after he becomes Pakistan’s new prime minister is not the securit...

Another attempt to tarnish govt’s image, says Arun Jaitley on Rafale allegations

Union minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday there was not a grain of truth in the “wild allegation” against the government on th...

Sushma Swaraj trolling: Centre avoids direct reply on investigation

The Union government on July 24 avoided a direct reply on whether an inquiry was conducted into the recent trolling of External Af...

Trump threatens more tariffs on U.S. trading partners

President Donald Trump declared on Tuesday that “Tariffs are the greatest!” and threatened to impose additional penalties on U...

Delhi Chief Minister or Lieutenant Governor supreme? Supreme court will decide today

Who holds the reins of Delhi — Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal or Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal? It will be known Wednesday when ...

Supreme Court checks govt: Pick DGP from state names shortlisted by UPSC

Ordering a slew of measures to push police reforms, the Supreme Court Tuesday directed states to notify the Union Public Service C...

Congress says alliances need to be formed on state-to-state basis

The Congress on Monday said alliances need to be sewed up on a state-to-state basis and there can be no ‘one size fit all alliance...

Emergency a ‘black period’, will figure in textbooks: Prakash Javadekar

Dubbing the Emergency as a “black period” and an assault on democracy of the country, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today s...

Theresa May says UK to set out new Brexit details after June EU meeting

Prime Minister Theresa May told the EU’s Donald Tusk on Monday that Britain would set more details on its vision for a future rela...

Bar Council of India lashes out at Justice Chelameswar for his statements after retirement

NEW DELHI: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has lashed out against Justice J Chelameswar for his "controversial" and "irrelevant" st...

Mehbooba Mufti visits Shujaat Bukhari’s ancestral home to pay homage

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti visited the ancestral home of slain journalist Shujaat Bukhari today to offer pers...

AAP dharna LIVE UPDATES: Mamata, Kumaraswamy, Naidu, Vijayan to meet Kejriwal at L-G house

The ongoing tussle between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Anil Baijal has intensified as West ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticises US ‘unilateralism’ over nuclear deal

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticised US “unliteralism” in withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and said on Sunday he appr...

Penalty collection from excess baggage not a priority, passenger comfort is: Piyush Goyal

Even as the railways collected Rs 189 crore by penalising passengers for carrying excess baggage and from booked luggage in 2017-2...

Centre invites lateral entry at joint secretary-level posts: Here are 10 things to know about it

The central government has announced opening up 10 senior-level bureaucratic posts in several departments through lateral entry to...

Nitish Kumar dismisses reports of rift with BJP, says rumours being spread by leaders seeking publicity

Dismissing reports of a rift in the JD(U)-BJP alliance, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said such rumours were the han...

Rahul Gandhi to appear in court tomorrow in defamation case

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday will appear in a magistrate court in Bhiwandi here in a criminal defamation case filed ...

Trump-Kim talks to take place in Singapore’s Sentosa Island

The summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un will be on Singapore’s southern island of Sentosa...

Donald Trump aide who mocked McCain has left White House job

A Trump communications aide who joked about US Senator John McCain’s battle with brain cancer has left her White House job, a Whit...

Assam PCC chief urges Pranab Mukherjee to reconsider decision

Assam Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ripun Bora on Tuesday urged former president Pranab Mukherjee to reconsider his decision to...

Madhya Pradesh polls: Congress-BSP pact would have denied BJP 41 seats in 2013

As the Congress and BSP negotiate the contours of a possible seat-sharing deal ahead of three crucial assembly elections, a poolin...

Amit Shah to meet Uddhav Thackeray today to lay ground for poll tie-up

BJP president Amit Shah will meet Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday, setting the stage for possible pre-poll allia...

Pravin Togadia slams Modi govt over farmers’ issue, to visit Mandsaur

Supporting the farmers’ agitation against the Central government, Pravin Togadia, who was recently ousted from the Vishwa Hindu Pa...

Gujarat Congress to launch 3-day stir for farm loan waiver, MSP hike from June 8

The Gujarat unit of the Congress on Tuesday announced three-day agitation against the state government from June 8 over farm loan ...

Govt’s bid to change UPSC cadre rules unconstitutional: P Chidambaram

Former finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday questioned the BJP government’s proposal to amend rules for allocation of servi...

Donald Trump says White House leakers are ‘traitors, cowards’

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted those inside the White House leaking internal deliberations and described them as “tr...

J&K special status: Defer pleas challenging Article 35A, Centre to Supreme Court

The Centre on Monday urged the Supreme Court to defer the hearing in the petitions challenging constitutionality of Article 35A, w...

Caution PM Modi on his ‘threatening’ language: Manmohan Singh writes to President

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and top Congress leaders on Monday wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind and asked him to cautio...

From a rice mill clerk to south’s first BJP CM, a look back at Yeddyurappa’s political journey

From serving as secretary to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to becoming the first BJP chief minister in the south and later...

Will return in 2019, won’t rest until BJP govt in 26 states: Amit Shah

Beginning the party’s preparations for 2019 Lok Sabha polls, BJP president Amit Shah gave a pep talk to organisation office-bearer...

Karnataka Assembly elections verdict today, Congress leaders rush to reach out to JD(S) just in case

Trying to buck anti-incumbency and retain power in Karnataka for the first time in almost 40 years, the Congress is leaving little...

J&K govt removes officer who issued order for Kashmiri Pandits visiting Kheer Bhawani temple

Days after Deputy Commissioner (Relief), Jammu, asked Kashmiri Pandits intending to visit temples in the Valley on Kheer Bhawani f...

West Bengal: Two bodies found charred, CPM claims its poll candidates

The CPM Monday alleged that Trinamool Congress workers were responsible for the deaths of two of its candidates who were found bur...

Maharashtra govt to rope in private players for teleradiology

Facing a shortage of radiologists, the Maharashtra government plans to set up teleradiology centres in rural and tribal areas to d...

Kairana bypoll: BJP fields Hukum Singh’s daughter Mriganka Singh against Tabassum Hasan

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday named Mriganka Singh, daughter of late MP Hukum Singh, as its candidate for Kairana Lok Sabh...

The unofficial alliance: CPM, BJP and Congress come together against Trinamool Congress in panchayat polls

A walk around Mollahad and Manickpara areas in Nadia district shows a graffiti having both CPIM and BJP candidates with their resp...

Karnataka elections: Modi’s speeches ‘don’t fill empty stomachs’, says Sonia Gandhi, PM accuses her of destroying Congress to save dynasty

Raising political temperatures in what is perceived as a close fight in Karnataka which goes to polls on May 12, Prime Minister Na...

Pakistan's FIA directed to act against people behind superimposing Imran Khan as Lord Shiva

A sub-committee of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Government Assurances has taken notice of an incident where Pakista...

West Bengal panchayat elections: In record show, TMC wins 34% of seats uncontested

With still a fortnight to go for the three-tier Panchayat elections in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress has already won 34 per ce...

West Bengal panchayat elections: In record show, TMC wins 34% of seats uncontested
With still a fortnight to go for the three-tier Panchayat elections in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress has already won 34 per ce...

Lalu Yadav says ‘don’t want to go’ after AIIMS refers him back to Ranchi hospital, alleges political conspiracy

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Monday referred Lalu Prasad Yadav back to Ranchi hospital saying he is now ...

Modi is looting country, says CPI general secretary Sitaram Yechury

Launching a sharp attack on the Prime Minister, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechuri on Sunday claimed that Narendra Modi, fugi...

'Will behead you, chop you into pieces': Union minister Anant Hegde receives threat call

Union minister and Uttara Kannada MP Anantkumar Hegde allegedly received a threat call on his landline during wee hours of Sunday....

Venkaiah Naidu may take time to complete consultations on impeachment notice against CJI

Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday began consultations on the Opposition parties' notice for an impeachment motion ag...

Venkaiah Naidu rejects notice for impeachment of CJI Dipak Misra, says allegations not tenable

Vice-President and Chairman of Rajya Sabha Venkaiah Naidu has rejected the notice for impeachment of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, wh...

Naidu has no power to reject CJI impeachment notice, says Prashant Bhushan

After Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu rejected the notice to impeach Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, eminent lawyer Prashant Bhu...

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 ...

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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

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