Speculation rife on Pawar family reunion 

The decision to reunite the Pawar family...

ISLAM: Experience fruits of patience

A western commentator, William Patron, has observed:...

Loneliness: The 21st century pandemic

According to the recent Global State of...

Abhinandan Mishra

‘India’s low contribution explains less hold on Interpol’

Experts say that the contribution quantum determines the ‘respect’ a nation commands. New Delhi: Rupees 2.50 crore in 2019, Rs 2.44 core in 2018 and Rs...

‘Kapil Mishra’s speech led to communal clashes’

New Delhi: People from both the Hindu and Muslim communities have blamed BJP leader Kapil Mishra for lighting the first flame that led to...

FIR reveales the gory murder of Ankit Sharma

New Delhi: The details in the First Information Report (FIR), given by the father of 26-year-old Ankit Sharma, a residence of Khajuri Khas of northeast...

Hindus, Muslims kept calling 100, got no help

People from both communities said Delhi police miserably failed in doing its duty. New Delhi: From Sunday till Monday night, when the communal violence was...

‘Masood Azhar not missing, Pak lied to FATF’

NEW DELHI: Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar was very much present in Pakistan when the country’s representatives were claiming to the delegates at the Financial...

PM’s bid to clean up real estate sector hits the ‘Babu Wall’

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to curb the parking of black money in real estate seems to have hit the bureaucratic wall,...

‘Protesters may have to vacate Shaheen Bagh site in a week’

New Delhi: With Home Minister Amit Shah stating that he was ready to meet those who were protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act to...

Foreign tourists disregard anti-CAA noise

New Delhi: Foreign tourists coming to India, numbers suggest, have disregarded the anti-CAA protests that have been happening in various parts of the country...

Not enough doctors: Regional units of AIIMS find the going tough

Of the 1,830 sanctioned faculty posts in six AIIMS, in Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna , Raipur and Rishikesh, only 1,035 have been filled. Despite making...

Escaped Taliban leader, who falsely framed Kulbhushan Jadhav, now outside Pak

Ehsanullah Ehsan is likely to shed light on the conduct of the Pakistan army and the ISI like never before as he worked as...

Little chance of Pak getting blacklisted by FATF

NEW DELHI: The possibility of Pakistan being put in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) black list, which seemed inevitable till late last year,...

BJP leaders being ‘looked into’ by disciplinary panel

NEW DELHI: BJP leaders Ananth Hegde, Pragya Singh Thakur, Nalin Kumar Kateel, Giriraj Singh, Sakshi Maharaj and Akash Vijayvargiya, apart from belonging to the...

Leaders from outside Delhi boost BJP’s poll campaign

‘The BJP’s chance has improved astronomically post 26 January’.   NEW DELHI: The entry of leaders from outside Delhi and giving them the charge of the...

Soft-spoken Nadda settles into party role

New Delhi: Those who have followed Jagat Prakash Nadda’s political career since he joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in Patna—where he would...

Lockdown forces Indian students to remain stuck in Hainan

New Delhi: Indian students studying medicine at the Hainan Medical University at Haikou, the capital of Hainan province, may not have any option but...

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...

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