How a treacherous Pak betrayed its partner, the US

The book by Iqbal Malhotra covers the...

UDF seeks to expand alliance in Kerala ahead of 2026 state elections

UDF’s potential alliance with Kerala Congress could...

Industrial growth likely to slow down to 6.2 pc for FY25

New Delhi: India’s industrial sector is expected...

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Pakistan will file reply on Kulbhushan at ICJ by 17 July

The fate of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was kidnapped by Pakistan’s ISI backed mercenaries from Iran, then declared a RAW agent and sentenced...

Anti BJP parties relying on arithmetic

Anti-BJP parties, led by the Congress, are pushing for a region-wise alliance, which they believe is the only way to stop Prime Minister Narendra...

Amit Shah shifts focus to MP ahead of polls

Has asked state leaders to call all district and block level party presidents to Bhopal where he will meet them.   After getting reports from senior...

Encroachments make life hell for Ghaziabad residents

NEW DELHI: Unauthorised encroachment of the main Vaishali Market in Ghaziabad is causing a lot of inconvenience to the residents and also leading to...

‘Anti-Modi UK group has Maoist, LTTE, Pak links’

The anti-India protests targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the United Kingdom last week, which was organised by an outfit called the South Asia...

Reconstruction of Sita temple starts at her birthplace

The construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya may or may not happen in the near future, but the reconstruction of a grand temple...

Once leaders decided on Hindu terror, babus had to convey it to public: MANI

‘In Nanded blast, CBI found that the accused Bajrang Dal man was not involved with any groups.’   The Sunday Guardian spoke to retired bureaucrat R.V.S....

Tenants suffer even as landlords dodge taxes

As per the official records, average tax payment made by an individual salaried taxpayer was Rs 76,306 in assessment year 2016-17.   Some financial policies of...

Report naming Congress leaders and Dawood not being made public by government

Officials who have seen the content of the N.N. Vohra committee report, and were involved in its preparation, are wondering why the present BJP-led...

‘Bakarwals, Hindus living in harmony, media wrong about us’

The decades old relationship between the Bakarwal Muslim community in Rasana village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district and fellow villagers who are predominantly...

Bank branches’ auditing becomes stringent

It is not just the branch managers and bank officials who are under stress, the auditors too are feeling the pressure.   The auditing of bank...

Shell companies that were struck off seek restoration

In the latter part of last year, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs had struck off around 2.24 lakh companies for remaining inactive for a...

ISI activates Mushtaq Zargar: 154 Pak terrorists operating in Kashmir

Indian security agencies have identified 154 Pakistani terrorists operating out of Kashmir at present and shared their names with Pakistan. These terrorists have been...

Minutes of Prasar Bharti’s meeting still under ‘process’

The minutes and proceedings of an important board meeting of Prasar Bharti (PB), in which India’s public service broadcaster blocked major proposals that it...

ISI wants daring attacks on Indian security forces

The directive follows India’s ‘Operation All Out’ of 2017, in which more than 200 terrorists were eliminated in the Kashmir valley.   Pakistani intelligence agency, the...

I will campaign against BJP across country: Hardik

‘I am not against dynastic politics. I see Rahul Gandhi as Prime Minister-material.’   Patidar leader Hardik Patel spoke to The Sunday Guardian. Excerpts: Q: Saurashtra is...

Speculation rife over Prashant Kishor’s ghar-wapsi to BJP

‘Kishor’s I-PAC is working on a national campaign for a national political party’.   Political strategist Prashant Kishor Pandey and his firm Indian Political Action Committee...

Upset BJP, RSS workers did not work in UP bypolls

‘The workers and ground-based leaders were extremely angry with the ministers and MPs who had forgotten them’.   Resentment against the corrupt bureaucracy at the local...

Official agencies fail to find ‘adverse conclusions’ against Iqbal Mirchi

The investigation into the terror funding and hawala operations of the Dawood Company has hit a dead wall, with the ED failing to arrive...

BJP shocked by UP defeats

The BJP’s defeat in Gorakhpur and Phulpur parliamentary bypolls has come as a deep shock for the party leadership who had never imagined that...

RSS goes on expansion mode

The increasing workload and the expansion plans that the RSS is working on are said to be the reasons behind increasing the number of...

Congress starts digitisation process

Congress president Rahul Gandhi is particular about digitisation of the party workers’ network and has asked the AICC to maintain online details of every...

Electoral necessities behind BJP’s latest Rajya Sabha nominations

Electoral usefulness, apart from loyalty and caste equation in their respective states, was what the BJP leadership looked into while selecting candidates for the...

Mamata’s leaders in CBI crosshairs, action soon

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to arrest key political leaders belonging to West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), for their alleged...

Agencies are monitoring PC’s top babus

Retired bureaucrats, who were at top positions in the Ministry of Finance during 2007 and 2008 and played a crucial role in the clearances...

BJP’s Sanjay Paswan wants ties with Nitish severed

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union minister Sanjay Paswan has made an appeal to his party to “gather the strength to walk...

Pak’s action against Hafiz mere eyewash

Pakistan’s “action plan” against Lashkar-e-Tayyaba chief Hafiz Saeed, formulated in the face of growing international pressure on it to erase its home-grown terror network,...

Shivraj Chouhan’s wife Sadhana may join politics

Sadhana Singh, the wife of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, is likely to assume a political role in the coming months, Bhopal...

It’s Gehlot vs Pilot as leadership issue lingers

The leadership issue in Rajasthan Congress is far from over as supporters of Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot are putting pressure on the party...

Antwerp media stands by local boy Nirav

The media in the Belgian city of Antwerp, where diamond merchant Nirav Modi grew up, has taken a sympathetic approach to the “Antwerper” or...

Bank officers talk of systemic failure

Coming out in the open against the alleged victimisation of bankers in view of the financial scams, especially the Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam,...

Vigilance award given to Punjab National Bank by CVC questioned

The vigilance awards given by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to government bodies and individuals for carrying out good practices to curb corruption, have...

Fugitive Economic Offenders’ Bill may spell trouble for Nirav, ilk

The troubles for absconding diamond businessman Nirav Modi are likely to escalate by several notches once Parliament re-convenes on 5 March. In all probability,...

‘PNB brass must have known about Nirav’

Officials investigating the Nirav Modi-Punjab National Bank case believe that the alleged scam involving a sum of Rs 11,400 crore, which had been going...

Rahul presses reset button on majority-minority issues

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who is being accused by his detractors of practising “soft Hindutva”, as is apparent from his newfound love for temples,...

RAW entrusted with bringing back Nirav Modi

In an unprecedented action, India’s external agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), has now been entrusted with the responsibility to use its resources and...

Nirav’s offices were raided by I-T last year

It is unlikely that officials in the North block, which houses the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, was unaware of...

‘Autonomy of Prasar Bharati will be respected’

Prasar Bharati chairman A. Surya Prakash has complained to the top leadership of the country that “gross, repeated and unwanted interference” from a few...

Pak increases Masood Azhar’s security

Pakistan has increased the security of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar after the terrorist group “successfully” carried out a terror attack in Sunjwan Army installation...

Special courts will fast-track trial of 1,581 politicians from 1 March

Twelve exclusive special courts, set up in 11 states, are scheduled to start hearing criminal cases against 1,581 parliamentarians and lawmakers of different states...

Differences surface within NDA, grand alliance in Bihar

The upcoming 11 March by-polls for one Lok Sabha seat (Araria) and two Assembly seats (Jahanabad and Bhabua) in Bihar, the date for which...

Gehlot may be Congress’ CM face in Rajasthan

There is a feeling among the Congress’ Rajasthan unit’s rank and file that Ashok Gehlot will be the party’s Chief Ministerial candidate in the ...

J&k govt spent Rs 11 crore on separatists’ upkeep

The Jammu and Kashmir government has spent Rs 11 crore in the last 10 years on the transportation and security of 14 Hurriyat leaders....

Pak searched and searched, failed to find spying device in Jadhav wife’s shoes

Pakistan’s security agencies have not found anything suspicious in Chetna Jadhav’s shoes that were confiscated by the Pakistani agencies when she went to Islamabad...

UP police carries out 15 encounters in two days

Continuing with its war against anti-social elements in Uttar Pradesh, the UP police carried out a staggering 15 encounters in the last two days...

Group planning terror attacks in U.S.: FBI report

A radical Islamic group, Jamaat-ul-Fuqraa, which also goes by the name of “Muslims of America” (MOA) and is active in America and Canada and has...

Baloch leader confirms Jadhav was picked up from Iran, sold to ISI

The elusive leader of a major rebel group fighting for the independence of Balochistan, Dr Allah Nazar Baloch has gained iconic status in Balochistan...

DRDO lab up in arms against scientist’s transfer

The employees of the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), which is regarded as one of the most distinguished labs of the Defence Research and Development...

BJP likely to drop MLAs in MP to fight anti-incumbency

The ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh will drop a considerable number of its sitting MLAs and will not repeat some of the candidates who...

Cash in Sonagachi, cages in Kamathipura

Happy that business is on an all-time high, sex workers in Kolkata’s Sonagachi, Asia’s biggest hub, are now seeking new flats to relocate because...

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