How a treacherous Pak betrayed its partner, the US

The book by Iqbal Malhotra covers the...

India’s economy seen a tad weak in 2025: IMF

New Delhi: Kristalina Georgieva, International Monetary Fund...

The chilling logic behind some seemingly random terror attacks

On January 3, 2025, the Islamic State...

Abhinandan Mishra

Kamal Nath corners maximum tickets, likely CM if Congress wins

A majority of Congress’ candidates who have got tickets to fight the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections are from the camp of the party’s state...

DoPT sitting on sanction for prosecution of IAS officers

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the controlling authority of the officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS), has been sitting on the sanction...

Sartaj Singh banking on ‘clean image’ in MP Assembly polls

A five-time Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Hoshangabad, 78-year-old Sartaj Singh, who is considered as an honest lawmaker, is going to contest on...

Shivraj has his say in ticket distribution

Tickets were given to those whose names were forwarded by the CM.   It was Shivraj Singh Chouhan all the way in ticket distribution in Madhya...

Why did SBI ignore top lawyer’s advice to block Mallya escape?

The top management of the country’s largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI), has been accused of ignoring an explicit warning issued by its...

Antigua ‘reluctant’ to extradite Mehul Choksi

Tiny island nation fears that throwing out the fugitive businessman will have a negative impact on its economy.   The extradition of PNB scam accused Mehul...

Black Diwali for KIN of kidnapped Indians

Seven Indian nationals working in Afghanistan were kidnapped.   It is going to be a “Black Diwali” for the family members of the seven Indian nationals...

Top RAW officer under watch for dubious links

The activities of a top Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officer, presently posted in Dubai, has come under the scanner of the Prime Minister’s...

Karnal Singh ensured Chidambaram was named in Aircel-Maxis charge-sheet

In what was possibly the last act of Enforcement Director Karnal Singh before retiring, he ensured that the agency filed the charge-sheet in the...

Diggy kept away from candidate selection

Singh’s loyalists stated that he himself was keeping away from interfering in ticket distribution in MP and Chhattisgarh.   The Congress candidates for the Madhya Pradesh...

Masood Azhar lying low, but is quite active

He is avoiding attention in the wake of the US Financial Action Task Force move against Pakistan earlier this year.   Jaish-e-Mohammad leader Maulana Masood Azhar...

Nitish Kumar emerges as the ‘Big brother’ in Bihar

Manages to convince BJP to give him an equal number of seats to contest LS polls.   Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal United (JDU) president...

Congress pursues path of self-annihilation in Chhattisgarh

Congress’ ambition to dislodge the Raman Singh-led Bharatiya Janata Party government in Chhattisgarh is likely to hit major road-blocks emerging from within the party....

Dubai court will decide Michel’s fate next month

The Court of Cassation of Dubai is final degree of litigation whose verdict is binding for all and not subject to appeal.   The fate of...

Jogi passes baton to son, not to contest this time

He wants to make himself available for campaigning of the alliance candidates.   The announcement of former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and president of Janata Congress of...

Dawood ‘top aide’s’ guarantor goes bankrupt

Mumtaz Ghaffar Khan, who had stood guarantor in the court for Pakistani businessman Jabir Siddiq, alias “Moti”, who is said to be a “top...

Kishor anointed as brain of JDU

While Nitish Kumar will remain the party’s face, all decisions regarding party affairs will be taken by Kishor.   Prashant Kishor Pandey, who was last week...

Poor Pak’s rich army sitting on assets worth $20 billion

Top Pakistan military officers are unlikely to be affected by the economic crisis that the volatile country is going through and has sought a...

‘More DRDO scientists honey-trapped by spies’

Incidents of honey-trapping have reached alarming proportions in recent timeswith roughly one incident being reported every month.   Intelligence agencies investigating the espionage charges involving a...

ED makes Nirav and Mehul poorer by Rs 3,600 crore

Information is finally available on the items, including property, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized after conducting raids at different properties owned by fugitive...

Arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari’s companies function merrily

Companies owned by fugitive arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari, who fled India in 2016 and whose name recently cropped up in the Rafale case, are...

Congress’ first list for MP soon

A party screening panel met in Delhi and candidates’ names were discussed.   The first list of 130-plus Congress candidates for the upcoming elections in Madhya...

Seat sharing among NDA partners in Bihar ‘finalised’

‘Biggest loser’ in the new arrangement may be the Upendra Kushwaha-led RLSP.   The seat-sharing issue among the four National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners in Bihar...

CBI refuses to reveal details of ‘action’ taken against Mallya

The agency’s refusal to respond to the questions has raised further questions as to whether the agency was working under pressure to go soft...

‘Cross LoC attacks set to rise exponentially’

Both overt and covert anti-India operations that are being carried out by rogue elements in Pakistan, will increase very sharply in the coming few...

Michel not absconding, ready to be extradited: Lawyer

The lawyer of 54-year-old Christian James Michel—an accused in the VVIP helicopter scam for whose extradition from Dubai, India is pushing hard—has claimed that...

Resentment among upper caste voters

According to the agencies conducting pre-poll surveys, modification in SC/ST Act has angered the upper caste voters.   Multiple agencies, which have conducted electoral surveys in...

Lack of transfer policy may breed corruption in Income-Tax’s EDP

EDP cadre officials posted at the same place for long years are potential threat to the privacy of PAN related data of the taxpayers.   The...

CBI probing 26 of its own officers for graft

As many as 26 officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the country’s premier investigating agency, are facing corruption charges in 28 cases,...

‘US knows ISI continues to employ Al Qaeda and Taliban’

India and US-based security experts tracking developments in Pakistan have said that the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, is continuing its support to both Taliban...

I-T refuses to reply on goods seized from Mehul, Nirav

The Income Tax department that comes under the Ministry of Finance has refused to share the details of goods, their value, amount of cash...

Brahmin officers stand against SC-ST amendment

The purpose is to bring together professionals on one platform to discuss the ramifications and issues non-violently.   For the first time in recent history, both...

Congress focusing on Bastar, Surguja

In its bid to wrest back Chhattisgarh from Raman Singh who has been in power since 2003, the Congress is focusing on Bastar and...

Kushwaha wants quick decision on seats

RLSP may walk out of NDA by end of September as it is facing pressure from RJD to decide on joining hands.   With the Bharatiya...

BJP upper caste leaders wary of backlash

There is anger at the Centre ‘succumbing’ to leaders claiming to represent Dalits.   The Bharatiya Janata Party leadership is worried over the feedback it has...

Congress list in MP will concentrate on 80 ‘difficult’ seats

The first list comprising the names of around 80 candidates for the Assembly elections will be released by the middle of  September.   The first list...

Infighting stops Congress from declaring CM faces

The Congress will not project Chief Ministerial faces for the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, scheduled to be held towards the...

40% of BJP MLAs will not be repeated in Chhattisgarh Assembly elections

In 2013, the margin of votes between BJP and Congress was 0.7%, while it was 1.75% in 2008.   Almost 40% of the existing 49 BJP...

BJP will remind voters of Vajpayee legacy

The legacy of Vajpayee will be showcased the most in the state of Uttar Pradesh. A medical university will be built across 50 acres...

India cautious of Huawei’s participation in 5G rollout

Australia became the third country after US and UK to have officially raised concern against Huawei and taken some sort of action.   Indian security agencies...

Bus from Gujarat will purify drinking water in flood-hit Kerala

The bus, which started from the coastal town of Bhavnagar, has the capacity to purify 3,000 litres of water per hour.   A bus having on-board...

CBI refusing to probe ex RAW chief’s assets for 22 years

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been shying away from investigating a case of alleged disproportionate assets involving a former Research and Analysis...

RAW officers identified for compulsory retirements

The ‘forced retirement’ is the largest such exercise in the recent history of the external spy agency.   Around 70 plus officers working in the Research...

DRDO chief not appointed even after three months

‘Selecting a new DRDO chief has become like walking on a landmine’.   The post of the chief of Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) has...

Many TMC leaders ready to join BJP, but wary of Mamata’s fury

Many top Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders are keen to join the Bharatiya Janata Party but are not being able to do so as they...

With 2019 in mind, BJP to woo present and future allies

‘We are happy as coalition dharma has been followed,’ said a JDU leader on the RS election.   The Bharatiya Janata Party is ready to shed...

Congress may contest 200 of MP’s 230 seats

Rest of the seats will be divided among its allies, including BSP and SP.   The first list of Congress candidates for the forthcoming Madhya Pradesh...

BJP may raise NRC demand in MP

Senior state party leaders, however, admit that they don’t have the exact number of illegal immigrants in the state.   The issue of illegal immigrants and...

ED’s seizure of assets sees a quantum jump

ED started investigating 7,105 cases in 2015-2018, almost double of 3,656 for 2012-2015.   The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has attached and seized assets worth more...

‘Mamata’s free pass to illegals threatens India’s security’

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is not taking into account the fact that her adversarial stand on Assam’s draft National Register of Citizens...

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