Justin Trudeau, stop dancing with extremists

Canada with Trudeau as PM has been...

AAP launches ‘Mission 2025’ ahead of Delhi Assembly elections

New Delhi: The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi...

Dussehra in Bastar: celebrating progress and transformation

Bastar: Bastar is evolving into a vibrant...

Abhinandan Mishra

Parvesh Verma may be CM if BJP forms Delhi government

New Delhi: BJP MP from West Delhi Parvesh Verma has been sounded out by the party leadership to prepare for the CM chair if...

Jharkhand ruling alliance already in trouble

JMM unhappy that Hemant Soren had to go to Delhi six times in a month to meet Sonia, Rahul Gandhi. New Delhi: The political situation in...

There was much drama before Sharjeel’s arrest

New Delhi: A three-member team from the Delhi Crime Branch led by Inspector Vivekanand Jha, who is himself a resident of Bhagalpur, Bihar, had...

NIA inundated with cases, old probes get delayed

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which was established as India’s nodal agency to investigate and prevent terror-related incidents after the infamous 26/11...

Israel court verdict could shed light on those who used Pegasus spyware

NEW DELHI: The proceedings at a district court in Tel Aviv, Israel, headed by Judge Rachel Barkai are being keenly watched by individuals part...

It’s curtains for RS tenure of C.P. Thakur, R.K. Sinha

From Bihar, the BJP can send only one candidate to the Rajya Sabha this time.   NEW DELHI: The parliamentary innings of BJP veterans C.P. Thakur,...

Beat policing gets a major technological boost in UP, MP

Police in the two states ink pact with IIM Indore.   New Delhi: The system of beat policing, which is seen as the simplest yet the...

Pak Taliban leader Ehsanullah Ehsan ‘flees’ from safe house

New Delhi: Ehsanullah Ehsan, a top leader of the Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who had “surrendered” before the Pakistan army and the ISI on 17...

Davinder’s arrest unmasks tainted cops

New Delhi: The arrest of Davinder Singh, the 57-year-old Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Superintendent of Police (soon to be dismissed), has brought into public...

A gynaecologist is heading a mental hospital in Gwalior

‘As per rules, chief of the hospital must be a qualified psychiatrist’.   New Delhi: For the last seven years, a mental hospital in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh—the...

R.P.N. Singh, Shibu Soren eye RS seats from Jharkhand

The tenure of two current Rajya Sabha MPs, Prem Chand Gupta and Parimal Nathwani, will be ending on 9 April.   New Delhi: Congress leader and...

BJP bigwigs want PM’s Twitter to follow theirs

‘Those followed by the PM claim proximity to him, which may or may not be true’.   New Delhi: Top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party...

RSS backs PM Modi on CAA

RSS’ feedback from the ground is that the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act do not represent the sentiments of the majority of Indians.   New...

CVC files on graft cases ‘stuck’ in government corridors

New Delhi: Offices of the Lok Sabha Speaker, Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) are among those that...

Many factors behind BJP not naming Tiwari Delhi’s CM face

Fears of internal sabotage, protest and concerns from Baniya-Punjabi communities stopped the announcement.   New Delhi: Fears of internal sabotage, protests and concerns from the Baniya-Punjabi...

JDU preparing to contest all 243 Assembly seats in Bihar

‘There is a very strong buzz in the party rank and file that the BJP will ditch the JDU at the last moment, derailing...

Jury still out on whether India can drone Masood Azhar, Hafiz Saeed à la Soleimani

Targeted killings by nations are permitted under international law in very narrow circumstances and must meet the ‘imminence test’ and the right to ‘self...

Pegasus was used to hack mobiles of Pak officials

New Delhi: Mobile phones of around 30 Pakistani government servants, who include serving army generals, officials attached with the ISI and senior bureaucrats, were...

BJP makes light of Kishor seeking more seats for JDU

‘The BJP will contest on an equal number of seats; there are no two ways about it’.   Patna-based political observers have dismissed Janata Dal United...

Agencies rescue Indians abducted in Afghan

At least four Indian nationals working in various parts of Afghanistan, and abducted by the Haqqani network, were successfully rescued by Indian agencies in...

Nepal arrests 122 Chinese nationals, denies china applied pressure

New Delhi: The Nepal police arrested 122 Chinese nationals from Kathmandu on 23 December for “suspicious” activities that, officials say, include online gambling, financial...

BJP Jharkhand in-charge faces flak for loss

New Delhi: BJP leaders in Jharkhand have questioned the role played by state election in-charge Om Prakash Mathur after the disastrous loss in the...

BJP’s plan to play big brother in Bihar spoiled

New Delhi: The BJP’s push for emerging as the big brother in Bihar has been shelved for now after the party lost the elections...

Opposition to show unity at Hemant’s swearing-in

New Delhi: The swearing-in ceremony of Hemant Soren, the new Chief Minister of Jharkhand, will be an event where the Opposition parties will showcase...

BJP leaders in states seek decentralised working system

New Delhi: After the party’s continuous streak of defeats in Assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in multiple states have said that there is...

Decide tenders on merit, not cost: Defence manufacturers

New Delhi: Industry leaders, especially from the defence segment, say that the L1 tendering system, also called Least Cost Selection Method, under which the...

‘BJP may not be able to form govt in Jharkhand’

According to RSS functionaries on the ground, the BJP was from the beginning fighting a tough battle.   New Delhi:The Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to...

Mehul Choksi’s extradition may be imminent

New Delhi: The extradition of Mehul Choksi, one of the accused in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam, is imminent, with the Prime Minister...

Pak army working in deplorable conditions in Siachen

New Delhi: A standing committee on defence of the Pakistan Senate has stated that the Pakistan army is working in “deplorable” conditions in the...

Dispensation of justice filled with great disparity: Justice Menon

Shares anecdotes showing the ground realities in places far from Delhi.   Bhopal, New Delhi: In a candid admission, the chairman of the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT),...

11 lakh kg of hazardous waste dumped in India

‘Connivance between corrupt port and government officials’.   New Delhi: At least 38 containers containing hazardous waste consignment, including plastic waste, that were sent to Indonesia...

Prashant Kishor likely to join AAP formally

Arvind Kejriwal ropes in Kishor’s consultancy ahead of Delhi Assembly polls.   New Delhi: Election strategist Prashant Kishor is likely to formally take the membership of...

Pak army abducts Baloch women, brands them terrorists

NEW DELHI: In what observers have said is a new modus operandi, the Pakistan army “abducted” four women and a minor from their homes...

Huawei helping China maintain ‘peace’ in Uyghur camps

NEW DELHI: Chinese information technology company, Huawei, which is vying for space in India’s upcoming 5G market, is helping the Chinese government in “maintaining...

CBI clerk gets agency to act against ‘corrupt’ seniors

CBI recently agreed to a probe by its Chief Vigilance Officer before the Delhi HC.   NEW DELHI :An Upper Divisional Clerk (UDC), working with the...

129 private foreign trips by C’garh IAS officers

Richa Sharma, a 1994 batch IAS officer, visited Dubai 24 times between January 2015 and October 2019.   NEW DELHI: Sixty-three bureaucrats of Chhattisgarh have gone...

Babus, politicians don’t want Aadhaar linked to property, may hurt PM’s housing-for-all dream

NEW DELHI: Top bureaucrats and senior politicians in power are trying to ensure that they get ample time to “dispose” of their ill-gotten property....

No change in abuse charges against Uttarakhand judge

NEW DELHI: Stalling the intent of the Uttarakhand state government to drop a case of “cruelty against child” and human trafficking against a senior...

‘BJP, Congress govts sat on MP deaths’

Since the 2006 incident was buried, the 2013 stampede took place, a Bhopal-based RTI activist said.   NEW DELHI: More than six years have passed since...

Centre confident Citizenship Bill will be passed in winter session

NEW DELHI: The introduction of a fresh version of the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) will be the focus of the winter session of Parliament...

US emerges as safe soil for Khalistan forces

Questions are being raised in Indian intelligence circles why the US is ignoring anti-India activities.     New Delhi: A pro-Khalistan group that is funded by Pakistan’s Inter-Services...

‘India needs to get involved in Afghan peace process’

Abdullah Haiwad, Afghanistan Governors’ Assembly chief, says peace in Afghan is related to peace in India.   NEW DELHI: The Sunday Guardian spoke to Dr Abdullah...

‘Taseer concealed his father was a Pakistani’

No ‘other reason’ for cancellation of the writer’s OCI status.   NEW DELHI: It was the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led BJP government in July 2000 that had...

EU body says it had no role in MEPs’ Kashmir visit

British High Commission in Delhi also says the visit was not an official one.   NEW DELHI :The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) based in...

RSS wanted celebrations muted

NEW DELHI :In the wake of the judgement in the decades old Ayodhya Ram temple-Babri Masjid case, that was announced on Saturday, the Rashtriya...

Focus shifts to cases against Advani, Joshi, Uma

The Supreme Court has described the demolition of the Babri Masjid as ‘a serious violation of the rule of law’.   New Delhi: With the Supreme...

SC decided Ayodhya case on evidence, not faith

Court made it clear that it had not relied only on ASI’s report while deciding the case.     New Delhi: When Gopal Singh Visharad, a “Hindu...

Infighting to hit Delhi BJP’s show in Assembly polls

‘BJP leaders are also unable to match the people-to-people contact of AAP’.   NEW DELHI :Plagued by a lack of coordination among its top leaders in...

Patna lawyers, registry oppose HC-ordered CBI probe

NEW DELHI: The Patna High Court Registrar General office and a certain section of the Patna High Court lawyers have moved the Patna High...

CBI prevents staff staying at a post for over 3 years

CBI had released an order regarding the same on 6 November.   NEW DELHI: Coming on the heels of the 20 September mass-scale “transfer” orders of...

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