IS THE BEAR GETTING ITS CLAWS INTO GEORGIA AGAIN?

LONDON: It was all so promising thirty...

India needs to counter China’s united front tactics

United front tactics involve the mobilization of...

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Deadlines missed, task force to redraft direct tax laws yet to meet

New Delhi: A Special Task Force (STF) constituted in November 2017 and restructured in November 2018 to redraft direct tax laws, is yet to...

BJP candidate in Bengal injured in ‘accident’

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Bongaon Lok Sabha constituency, Shantanu Thakur, met with what the local administration has described as...

‘AAP’s manifesto promises depend on full statehood for Delhi’

New Delhi: Two key poll promises in the manifesto of the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)—full statehood for Delhi and reservation for Delhi’s...

Caste, community equations will play a role in Delhi seats

New Delhi: Caste and community equations are the two main factors that are likely to influence the elections to Delhi’s seven Lok Sabha seats,...

Kashmiri Pandits bank on BJP to return to Kashmir

Prominent members of the community say that the BJP at least continues to talk about the issues of the community.   New Delhi: Some prominent Kashmiri...

New curriculum for UG courses at DU soon

Revision work is going on and soon the revised draft will be published.   New Delhi: The ball has been set in motion to introduce a...

In Delhi, Congress mulling of fielding losers of 2014

New Delhi: The Congress’ Delhi unit has identified the candidates for the seven Lok Sabha seats of the national capital, but is not declaring...

JNU’s Virendra Kumar to try his luck in Godda

Kanhaiya Kumar is in the media spotlight, but Virendra Kumar has been non-controversial.   New Delhi: While Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student-turned-politician Kanhaiya Kumar has stolen...

Parties’ police reform promises ring hollow

Experts not taking promises made by the Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress seriously.   New Delhi: Though major political parties like the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata...

Confident Balyan takes on ‘outsider’ Ajit Singh in Muzaffarnagar

As western Uttar Pradesh goes to the polls on Thursday, in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections, the Muzaffarnagar seat is turning...

Victims recall painful memories of Muzaffarnagar riots

Muzaffarnagar: Those affected in the aftermath of the Muzaffarnagar riots still have painful memories of the event. Thousands of families—mostly of landless Muslim agricultural...

Saharanpur, Meerut LS seats may tilt the BJP’s way

Meerut/Saharanpur: Candidate selection of the RLD-SP-BSP combine, polarisation on religious lines and the Balakot air strike together may result in victory for the Bharatiya...

Mriganka Singh’s supporters may dent BJP’s prospects

They will help Tabassum Hasan, the consensus candidate of the RLD, SP and BSP.   Kairana: Core supporters of Mriganka Singh, daughter of the late Hukum...

Satyapal has an edge over Jayant in Baghpat

‘Even if we vote for Jayant Chaudhary, he is not going to become the Prime Minister and take on Pakistan’.   Baghpat: Development works like the...

Traders affected by liquor ban begin NOTA campaign in Bihar

New Delhi: Traders in Bihar don’t seem to be giving up on their fight against liquor ban in the state, as nearly 60,000 distributors,...

Despite fan-following, Begusarai has never been a Left bastion

In Lok Sabha polls held since 1952, the CPI has managed only once, in 1967, to win from the seat.   New Delhi: Though partial industrialisation...

DU departments headless, functioning affected

‘Nearly 4,000 teaching staff posts are lying vacant in various colleges of DU.’   New Delhi: More than a dozen departments of Delhi University (DU) don’t...

Not easy for Congress to pick candidates

New Delhi: Despite defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recently concluded Assembly polls and forming government under the leadership of Kamal Nath...

I-T on alert to curb black money during elections

The department has deployed over 1,800 officials across the country.   New Delhi: In order to curb the use of black money during the Lok Sabha...

MHRD strikes down DU’s proposal seeking funds

New Delhi: The Delhi University (DU) administration had asked the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) this month for Rs 5,000 crore for the...

RSS body woos tribals to reverse BJP fortunes in three heartland states

New Delhi: The Akhil Bharatiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (ABVKA)—a wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)—is working silently to woo the tribal voters of...

Rs 133 cr of MPLADS funds meant for Delhi remains unspent

NEW DELHI: In Delhi, Rs 133 crore (with interest) out of the total entitlement of Rs 187 crore under the Members of Parliament Local...

‘Rs 1,100 cr MGNREGA funds yet to be paid’

New Delhi: With less than two weeks left in the current fiscal, about Rs 1,100 crore by way of wages of Mahatma Gandhi National...

Congress’ Delhi list for LS battle likely next week

The party has released its first list of candidates for 15 seats for LS polls.   New Delhi: For the Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, the...

NPA fear hits Mudra loan disbursement

A total of Rs 2,46,437.40 crore of loans was disbursed under the MUDRA scheme.   NEW DELHI: Fearing the generation of non-performing assets (NPAs or “bad...

Mayawati, Jogi struggle to seal seat sharing deal in Chhattisgarh

Both BSP and JCC leaders, however, say their alliance will remain intact.   New Delhi: vAhead of the Lok Sabha elections, signs of bitterness have surfaced...

Union Cabinet set to decide on Delhi Metro expansion

‘Centre preparing to give special gift to Delhiites, especially to Metro commuters.’   NEW DELHI: With the Election Commission expected to announce the schedule for Lok...

Sanitation workers hail feet-washing by PM

Want the Prime Minister to ensure a proper rehabilitation programme for the community.   New Delhi: Residents of Valmiki Sadan that mostly houses sanitation workers in...

Nehruvian thoughts will dominate revised curricula in Congress states

New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru is all set to make a comeback in a big way in the curricula of government-run schools in the Congress-ruled...

Tejashwi revives Mandal with Reservation Yatra

New Delhi: With his “Reservation Yatra” which started from Thursday, Tejashwi Yadav is trying to revive and create the old Mandal social coalition vote...

Tribals seek land rights from Congress govt

The party had promised that if it came to power, it would revise amendments to the Forest Land Rights Act.   NEW DELHI: Tribals in Chhattisgarh...

‘Include Nanaji’s philosophy in curriculum’

In a reply to a letter, two Union ministries have said that the demand for ‘Social Work Day’ does not come under their purview.   NEW...

‘New FDI norms will ensure fair play’

NEW DELHI: The new Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) guidelines that will come into effect from next month are expected to ensure a level playing...

‘Unhappy’ traders set to launch campaign

NEW DELHI: Allegedly feeling “neglected” by the incumbent government, traders under the banner of the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) have threatened to launch...

Promise of loan waiver ‘false’, Rajasthan farmers angry

NEW DELHI: Farmers who feel cheated over “false promises” of loan waivers in Rajasthan are planning to launch a massive protest under the banner...

Karti en route to Parliament, courtesy DMK

NEW DELHI: Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s keenness to send his son, Karti Chidambaram, to Parliament from Sivaganga, his erstwhile Lok Sabha constituency, which...

Chhattisgarh Congress seeks military action against Maoists

But CM Baghel has said that the Maoist problem cannot be solved with guns.   Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel is under massive pressure to act...

Several companies barely allocated funds towards CSR activities

There has been a rising trend of violation of Corporate Social Responsibility provisions by companies.   NEW DELHI: Since 2014, as many as 18,398 companies did...

Poorvanchalis, Pahadis will have more say in Congress’ Delhi cells

New Delhi: The Congress is mulling to provide more say to Poorvanchalis, Pahadis (people from Uttarakhand) and south Indians in the party’s various cells...

No hurdles to 10% quota, say Experts

Bill has already been passed by the LS and RS, and has got the President’s nod.   New Delhi: Despite a petition being filed in the...

‘Not all happy with proposal to support farmers with money’

All India Kisan Sabha says the income support model is only helpful when it is supported by loan waiver.   NEW DELHI: The possibility of the...

Congress will up minority cell’s social media presence

NEW DELHI: After outperforming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recently concluded Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh (MP), Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, Congress president...

Panel formed to draft new policy on rare diseases yet to meet

A 10-member committee, under the chairmanship of the Director-General of Health Services (DGHS), has not held a single meeting since its formation.   New Delhi: Only...

‘State surveillance promoted by Congress govts’

‘Dhar’s book reveals Indira Gandhi relied on snooping and surveillance to assess her political gains and secure power.’   NEW DELHI: A scholar who keeps tabs...

‘NDA majorly reformed education sector’

‘The Centre’s stress has also been on the use of technology in the field of education’.   NEW DELHI: Although critics have been alleging that the...

‘Disgruntled tribals, farmers voted BJP out of power’

NEW DELHI: Crackdown on local activists, eviction of tribals from forest areas, blocking tribals from accessing forest produce and general farm distress together contributed...

Stephenians have top posts in Modi government

High-ranking politicians of the UPA government have also been from St. Stephen’s college.   NEW DELHI: There may be many differences in the previous Congress-led United...

DU ad-hoc teachers being ‘denied’ maternity leave

NEW DELHI: Thousands of women ad-hoc teachers of Delhi University (DU) are allegedly being denied “basic maternity leave” and the University Grants Commission (UGC)...

Cancer is a bigger killer than heart diseases in India

NEW DELHI: The mortality rate among cancer patients in India is increasing rapidly, statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) suggest. A recently published...

Proposal to ban bricks made in coal-based kilns

‘Centre’s plan willpromote environment-friendly methods.’   NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MH&UA) is considering banning the use of bricks made in traditional...

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