Japan attempts a bold balancing act between guns and butter

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Bangladesh covers up oppression of minorities 

New Delhi: Ever since the ouster of...

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Terrorists’ social media groups seeking Aadhaar numbers of potential recruits

Administrators manning the social media groups of terrorist outfits such as Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammad are asking for the Aadhaar numbers of those who are...

No truth in allegations made, says Choksi’s lawyer

Sources say that Mehul Choksi is no longer sure that Antiguan citizenship will save him.   Mehul Choksi, the prime accused in the multi thousand crore...

NDA unlikely to push for uniform civil code in this tenure

There is only a bleak possibility that the Union government would push for the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the near...

Indian aviation fighting battle against drunk pilots, repeat offenders

The domestic airlines in India seem to be fighting a losing battle against pilots who consume alcohol before embarking on flight operations. Despite stringent...

Law Commission deliberating on Uniform Civil Code

The Law Commission of India is at an advanced stage of deliberations on the twin issues of simultaneous elections in the country and the...

BJP cadre go underground as TMC flexes muscles

Workers are disappointed over Centre’s inaction against graft-tainted TMC leaders.   Many BJP workers and functionaries in West Bengal have gone “underground”, after being at the...

We supported Rajeshwar Singh as it was the right thing to do: ED Director

Goods and properties worth around Rs 3,800 crore have been seized in Nirav Modi-Choksi case: Karnal Singh.   In the last four years, especially after the...

CWC gives Bihar a miss, local unit flummoxed

No leader from Bihar or Jharkhand has been appointed to the newly constituted body.   With not a single leader from Bihar and Jharkhand finding a...

Kushwaha all set to leave NDA for Grand Alliance

Leaders nominated by RLSP chief are in an advanced level of seat-sharing talks with RJD president Lalu Prasad Yadav.   The Upendra Kushwaha-led Rashtriya Lok Samata...

‘BJP-JDU will go for 17-17-6 formula for 2019 LS Polls‘

‘The formal announcement of the same will be done anytime soon’.   Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah and Janata Dal United  (JDU) chief and...

NLIU probes ex-students

Many of them are now working in important positions in both government and private sectors.   Many former students of the prestigious National Law Institute University...

Kin of Indians abducted in Afghanistan left in the dark

The relatives of the seven Indian nationals, who were abducted in Baghlan province of Afghanistan on 7 May, are worried about the well-being of...

‘Sharif’s closeness to Modi was reason for his removal’

Officials in the Indian security establishment, who are tracking the army facilitated political developments in Pakistan, say that former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif...

Mallya, Roy on their way out of Force India

Beleaguered industrialists Vijay Mallya and Subrata Roy “Sahara”, who jointly own Force India Formula One team, which has been valued at $225 million, are...

BJP cyber-warriors to dig into diggy’s track record

The party has plans to expose 10 years of ‘misrule’ of the former Chief Minister.   With Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh becoming active and leading the...

‘Generation next in Bihar BJP set to rise’.

Sons of Union ministers and senior party leaders are waiting in the wings to step into their fathers’ shoes as and when chances come...

Value of jewellery seized from Nirav, Mehul may be negligible

With conflicting reports emerging regarding the real value of the gold, diamond and jewellery seized by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) during its countrywide raids...

No question of alliance with Congress: Ajit Jogi

‘In entire Chhattisgarh, Congress does not have any presence.’   Ajit Jogi, the first Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh who now heads the regional outfit he floated...

Masood Azhar roams free, incites anti India terror

Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar has positioned himself as the leading anti-India voice in Pakistan, emboldened by the lack of any action against...

JDU stranded, won’t leave unless pushed out by BJP

‘Many Bihar BJP leaders were never in support of BJP going into an alliance with JDU’.   The Janata Dal United (JDU), which is a part...

I am not an ISI agent: Danish Shah

New Delhi: The Sunday Guardian was able to speak to Shah Mohammad Alam @Danish Shah, who as per a Research and Analysis (R&AW) document submitted by the Finance...

CBI asked to finish probing TMC cases in four months

The Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to question and arrest some high profile leaders belonging to West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress, soon. Some...

BJP will drop many non-performing MLAs in MP

‘Discontent among the voters is spread across several districts, but it is not against the government as such.’   At least 65 sitting BJP MLAs, including...

‘No one can stop BJP from retaining power in MP’

The Congress can never unite in MP, says BJP national vice president Prabhat Jha.   BJP national vice president and Rajya Sabha member Prabhat Jha talked...

PM Modi firm on lateral entry of professionals

This entry of professionals from various fields at the Joint Secretary level will happen in spite of stiff resistance from the country’s powerful IAS...

Air Asia CEO may continue to evade CBI summons

AirAsia chief executive officer Tony Fernandes, who has been named in a first information report (FIR) filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)...

Indian-origin man makes it to Russian Assembly

Originally from Bihar, Abhay Singh was elected to Kursk city Assembly on a ticket of President Putin’s party.   An India-born Russian has created history after...

Bihar Congress set to get new chief

Rahul Gandhi has summoned party’s top state unit leaders for a meeting in this regard on Monday.   Senior Bihar state Congress leaders have been summoned...

Congress hiring strategists for Haryana polls

In the past, too, the Congress has used the services of election specialists, but with mixed results.   The Indian National Congress is in the process...

Canadian intelligence warns of China interference

A report prepared by Canada’s intelligence agency, the “Canadian Security Intelligence Service”, CSIS, has warned its policymakers that China was using its economic ties...

‘Bangla Maoists involved in plan to target PM’

Intelligence agencies are looking at the possibility of a Bangladesh based radical left organisation, “Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party” (PBCP), having links with Indian Maoist...

Bihar BJP wants to go it alone in 2019

BJP leaders from Bihar have conveyed to the party’s central leadership that they are ready to fight the 2019 general elections without ally Janata...

‘Speaking order changed on event morning’

‘The idea was to give the former President the space to express his dissent, in case needed’.   The decision to let former President Pranab Mukherjee...

‘Minority rights are more secure now than ever before’

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi says that the Centre has done more work for the minorities than what previous governments had done in the last six-seven...

Chidambaram FIPB was ‘over-eager’ to clear AirAsia deal

The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), which was directly under the control of the Ministry of Finance, then headed by P. Chidambaram, cleared in...

BJP wooing Sourav Ganguly

The party had apparently offered a ticket to Ganguly for the 2014 general elections.   The Bharatiya Janata Party has stepped up efforts to get Sourav...

Book by MHA officer reveals how UPA manufactured Hindu terror narrative

CBI sat on requests for evidence against Dawood as political quarters, in Chidambaram’s time, were against providing any.   Hindu Terror:  Insider Account of Ministry of...

To counter Modi, Congress identifies 340 seats to play alliance politics

Congress president Rahul Gandhi intends to apply the Karnataka formula to stitch regional alliances in every state to try and prevent the Bharatiya Janata...

DRDO whistle-blowers seek Sitharaman’s intervention

Arun Jaitley had ordered action against two senior scientists in a case in DRDO.   Whistle-blowers and scientists working with the Defence Research and Development Organisation ...

Pakistan deaf to Indian mother’s plea to free jailed son

Fauzia Ansari, the 62-year-old mother of Indian national Hamid Nehal Ansari, who was arrested by ISI after he crossed over to Pakistan from Afghanistan...

‘People with ties to PFI were visiting VP Ansari’s residence’

Intelligence agencies, in 2009, had forwarded specific inputs to the Ministry of Home Affairs about people with close ties to the Kerala based People’s...

Waiting for justice in spy case: Nambi Narayanan

Former ISRO scientist was falsely implicated by IB in 1994 in a spy case.   Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) senior scientist Nambi Narayanan, who...

26/11 investigation shielded Indian hand in the entire case, says former MHA officer

‘After the conviction of Kasab by the Sessions Court, two NAC members were batting for Kasab’s clemency. The whole thing was a collaborative exercise—notwithstanding...

‘Bengal will try to get Mukul Roy arrested’

Roy has accused Mamata Banerjee of political vendetta to ‘restrain him’ since he is aware of ‘every wrong’ that Banerjee has allegedly done.   The West...

BJP is banking on Ujjwala scheme as a vote catcher for 2019

More than 3.51 crore LPG connections have been made in BPL households under this scheme; 1.54 cr beneficiaries are Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.   The...

Rahul yet to register himself for Mansarovar pilgrimage

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who has said that he will embark on a Kailash Mansarovar Yatra after the Karnataka elections, is yet to register...

MEA spent Rs 87 lakh to find the bodies of Indians abducted by IS

Sushma Swaraj, on 20 March, had informed the Rajya Sabha that the deaths of the 39 Indians were confirmed.   The Ministry of External Affairs spent...

India paid Re 1, Pak crores to lawyers in Jadhav case

While the Indian government had to spend only Re 1 as legal fees to save the life of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, the Pakistan...

JDU unhappy with BJP’s ‘unfair’ treatment

‘To balance the unfair treatment, Nitish Kumar is ignoring the BJP when it comes to decisions taken in Bihar’.   Discontent is brewing within the JDU...

Kamal Nath supporters keen on him as CM face

According to sources, Kamal Nath will be giving a free hand to Digvijaya during allocation of tickets.   Supporters of former Union minister and nine-time MP...

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