Dotasra sure of Congress win in Rajasthan bypolls

Dotasra is confident Congress will win all...

Rouse Avenue Court grants bail to Satyendar Jain

New Delhi: Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court granted...

Vedanta announces investments of Rs 1 lakh crore

Mumbai: Vedanta Limited has announced a new...

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2020 Padma awardees still waiting for their award

New Delhi: The 2020 Padma awardees are still to get their award from the hands of the President of India, nearly one year after...

Tytler may face trouble in 2012 forged letter case

New Delhi: Legal troubles are likely to mount for former Union minister and Congress leader Jagdish Tytler for his alleged role in a forged...

‘CAI trade deal ill-timed, China should stop being a global bully’

European parliamentarian Reinhard Butikofer says the EU-China deal ignores many geopolitical developments. New Delhi: Reinhard Butikofer, an influential German member of the European Parliament, who is...

China secured release of its ‘terrorist’ spies after entreaty to Kabul

New Delhi: The Chinese establishment in Afghanistan, led by Ambassador to Afghanistan, Wang Yu had to meet the top leadership of Afghanistan, including President...

Case to decriminalise politics in its final phase in Supreme Court

Judgement in the case will help decriminalise Indian politics in a major way. New Delhi: A PIL filed in August 2016 in the Supreme Court of...

Daniel Pearl’s killer being protected by Pak PM Imran Khan’s men

The order to give the terrorist home-like treatment in prison, had come from the office of Brigadier Ijaz Ahmed Shah, who until recently was...

Banned in US, PLA-linked firms functioning in India

New Delhi: The United States has added new companies on the list of those which it considers as “Communist Chinese companies” and has found...

US Congress resolution calls out Pak on enforced disappearances

Resolution says Pak failed to stop perpetrators; most victims are Baloch, Pashtun, or Sindhi.   New Delhi: A resolution introduced in the US Congress last month...

‘We have done everything to make farmers understand’

BJP leader Avinash Khanna says some people with vested interests are spreading lies.   Senior BJP leader Avinash Rai Khanna, who has been an MLA, a...

At 26%, FDI in print media stuck in Vajpayee’s era

New Delhi: In an article, titled “Asleep at The Wheel?”, the Time magazine in  June 2002, while doing a commentary on the then Prime...

JDU CRIES FOUL OVER ITS MLAS’ DEFECTION TO BJP IN ARUNACHAL

Janata Dal United terms it an ‘unfriendly act’ and against coalition dharma.

‘WITH KARIMA’S ASSASSINATION, PAK HAS SILENCED NEXT GENERATION OF BALOCH WOMEN’

The death of 37-year-old Baloch nationalist, Karima Mehrab Baloch, who was found dead due to “drowning” in Toronto, Canada, where she had taken political...

TMC worried perception of possible loss gaining ground in Bengal

West Bengal’s ruling All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), which is facing a resurgent BJP, is battling the “mahol” (perception) that the voters of the...

Facing bias, Mujahid force in Pak military in protest mode

In most cases of Mujahid force members dying from Indian action, Pakistan Army passes them off as ‘civilian casualties’.   Significant discontent is happening among the...

In Bengal, Mukul-Suvendu equation will be watched

‘Roy is into strategizing, but Adhikari will bring the TMC votes into BJP fold’.   New Delhi: The impending entry of TMC strongman Suvendu Adhikari into...

Pak turning Gwadar into open prison on China’s order

The Gwadar port, which will be developed as a military base, already has a significant number of men from the PLAN Marine Corps, sources...

Huawei’s inclusion in 5G working groups raises security concerns

Experts cite two Chinese laws that force Chinese telecom companies operating in foreign countries to share any information that Chinese agencies want from them....

‘Missing’ Masood under ISI care in Mianwali prison

Azhar will be allowed to appear in public once the FATF meet scheduled for 21-26 February 2021 ends.   NEW DELHI: Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar...

Rs 3.12 trillion written off as farm loans since 2008

NEW DELHI: A report prepared by an internal working group of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on how to improve the credit flow...

PC case loses focus, individuals behind it forgotten

On 2 December, a special court said the case was ‘lingering on unnecessarily’ and postponed it for next year February. New Delhi: Former CBI director...

Odisha forest officer’s arrest puts focus on CAMPA funds’ misuse

‘Funds that the Centre gives to states for compensatory afforestation are being grossly misused’. New Delhi: The arrest of 1987 batch Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer,...

Dodging CBI, Koda scam accused flourishes in Dubai

This is despite a Red Corner notice, on CBI’s request, pending against him. New Delhi: Sanjay Kumar Choudhary, one of the co-accused and kingpins of...

Congress-led panel had found APMCs bleeding farmers

The primary finding of the committee was that the APMCs and the intermediaries were pocketing a major part of the income which should go...

Yogi-backed IPS officer dismantles gangster Ansari’s network

New Delhi: The more than 30 years’ reign of jailed gangster and BSP MLA from Mau, Mukhtar Ansari, who has listed his profession as...

Pak employs lobbying firms to smear India’s image in US

New Delhi: To push its anti-India agenda on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, Pakistan has engaged two lobbying firms even as it struggles with a...

‘UAE-Pakistan ties under strain’

‘Discriminatory treatment’ of Pak tourists in Dubai points to deteriorating ties. New Delhi: The age-old ties between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Pakistan, which...

‘Terrorist infiltration at Nagrota points to lapses’

‘Discovery of border tunnels indicates perpetrators can do their work undetected’. New Delhi: Though the Indian security forces were able to eliminate the four heavily...

Book sheds light on the tragedy of Balochistan under Pakistan

New Delhi: I was reminded of the concentration camps that were operated by the Nazis in Auschwitz as I started turning the pages of...

Rahul’s strike rate of election wins just 25% in 78 months

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was 43 years old when he took over as the vice president of the party on 19 January...

Sino-Pak dossier on India smashes record in fabrication

Multiple officials, including foreign diplomats said that the dossier was full of comical errors and looked more like a project report by a college...

‘Weak organisation, lack of leaders’ accountability led to Bihar loss’

Senior Congress leader Tariq Anwar says that the party has made mistakes as far as the Bihar polls are concerned. New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and...

Bihar Grand Alliance lost its advantage in third phase

After two phases, it was leading on 89 seats, only 33 away from 122.   New Delhi: When the second phase of the Bihar Assembly elections...

Haqqani network helping Pak army cut a deal with TTP terrorists

The Pakistan army is using its long-standing ties with Sirajuddin Haqqani of the Haqqani network to secure a working relationship with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan...

Bihar to get NIA branch office

Last week, the NIA opened a branch office in Ranchi, Jharkhand.   New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), India’s nodal agency that tackles terrorism and...

Pak lobby tempts Biden with promise to recognise Israel

New Delhi: Pakistan and its Washington based allied groups are pushing the agenda to team-Joe Biden that it was going to recognise Israel in...

NDA’s woo-Yadavs bid may have alienated upper castes in Bihar

New Delhi: The BJP’s perceived “excessive” outreach to the Yadav vote bank and a perception that the party had repeatedly ignored the forward castes,...

Mukul Roy, Dilip Ghosh infighting hurts Bengal BJP

Amit Shah raised the issue of differences while interacting with top state leaders.   New Delhi: Even before the Bihar elections were completed, the BJP’s focus...

Fearing political loss, Nitish Kumar loses his trademark cool

New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who has been the CM for 15 years and a participant of active politics for more than...

Intelligence: Indian agencies get a BECA boost

Resources generated by US’ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will now be available to India.   New Delhi: When 79 US commandos and Cairo the dog, a Belgian...

India-US military ties reach unprecedented heights

For 14 years South Block mandarins sat on the agreements in the name of ‘strategic autonomy’ despite knowing advantages India would gain if these...

US-India ties attract attention of Russian intelligence

New Delhi: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on 9 December 2011 declassified a “secret” report, which its field office in Delhi had sent to...

‘Red tape, air pollution hurdles to South Korean investment in India’

Shin Bongkil, South Korea’s Ambassador to India, says  cleaner air itself would attract more foreigners and investment to India.   New Delhi: Shin Bongkil, the South...

Law and order, red carpet for industries, jobs to be top priority: Tejashwi Yadav

Yadav says Nitish Kumar has cheated the people of Bihar and ruined the state in his 15 years of rule.   Tejashwi Yadav, RJD leader and...

MBS no to Pak using Saudi soil for anti-India agenda

MBS, officials say, is considering giving India membership of OIC.   New Delhi: Saudi Arabia, which had in the recent past emerged as one of Pakistan’s...

Five Eyes alliance looks towards India

‘There has been increased traction on the need to involve India in the alliance in view of China’s aggressive policies’.   New Delhi: On 11 October,...

GHQ Rawalpindi drafts educated girls to gather info from India

New recruits are taught to gather information from Indian Army officials posted in critical areas.   New Delhi: The Pakistan Military Intelligence (MI) is recruiting young,...

Chirag banking on close finish to emerge as kingmaker

However, the LJP’s vote share may slide further, as its limited pocket of  influence has been continuously eroding.   New Delhi: The Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJP), which...

‘Nitish fatigue’ in Bihar ahead of first phase

‘BJP candidates may become collateral damage of the massive anti-Nitish Kumar sentiment’.   New Delhi: Ground reports coming from Bihar have indicated that the RJD-led Grand...

Bihar at the bottom of CSR parameters

State got less than 1% of funds spent by government, private corporate houses in 5 years.   New Delhi: Bihar saw Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) spending...

Touts promising BJP ticket get active in Bengal

New Delhi: Mid-level Bharatiya Janata Party functionaries, individuals wrongly claiming closeness to RSS decision makers and heads of NGOs and other similar organisations, are...

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