Agencies New Delhi: The Centre Saturday appointed six new Governors in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Nagaland and Tripura. MP Governor and former Chief Minister of Gujarat Anandiben Patel has been transferred as appointed the new as Governor of UP. Bihar Governor Lalji Tandon was also transferred and appointed as […]
New Delhi: Former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh has said the Kashmir issue has no solution as the relation between India and Pakistan is “accident-prone”. Speaking at the launch of the book “Indo-Pak Relations: Beyond Pulwama and Balakot” by U.V. Singh here on Thursday, the former Union Minister said the future of both countries […]
Agencies Ranchi: Three Naxalites have been killed and arms and ammunition seized in an encounter with security forces in Jhrakhand’s Lohardaga district Thursday, officials said. They said the encounter broke out around 2:45 pm when a joint team of 158th and 214th battalions of CRPF and state police was out for operations in Bahegara village of […]
Agencies Twelve persons were killed after a four-storey residential building collapsed in south Mumbai’s congested Dongri area Tuesday, trapping over 40 people under the debris, civic officials said. Twelve people were killed after the ‘Kausarbaug’ building, located in a bustling narrow lane in Tandel Street of Dongri area of south Mumbai, crashed, housing minister Radhakrishna […]
Agencies New Delhi : Pakistan has decided to open its airspace for ‘all type of civilian traffic’ with immediate effect making a sort of climbdown from its July 12 stance that it would not do so until India withdraws all its fighter planes from the Indo-Pak border. Pakistan’s aviation authority on Tuesday lifted its […]
NEW DELHI: The government asserted on Monday that a bill to broaden the NIA’s investigating powers is part of its policy of zero-tolerance against terrorism and is in the national interest, as Lok Sabha took up a discussion on the proposed legislation. While Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy sought the support of […]
Agencies In a statement that could stir controversy, BJP MLA from Ballia, Surendra Singh, has said that Muslims who have many wives and children in large numbers have an “animalistic tendency.” “In the Muslim religion, you know that people keep 50 wives and give birth to 1050 children. This is not a tradition but an […]
Agencies New Delhi : Army chief General Bipin Rawat Saturday said there has been no intrusion by the Chinese troops in Ladakh’s Demchok sector. “There is no intrusion,” Rawat said on the sidelines of an event. His statement comes amidst reports of Chinese troops crossing the Line of Actual Control (LAC) last week after some […]
Noida (UP): Seventeen foreigners, who were detained in Greater Noida for allegedly staying in the country without valid travel documents, have escaped from police custody, officials said Friday. They were among the 60 foreign nationals from nine countries who were detained on Wednesday over invalid visa and passport documents and faced deportation, they said. “Around 8.30 […]
Agencies New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a petition challenging the constitutional validity of Article 370 of the Constitution. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Rajan Gogoi agreed to hear the plea after advocate and Bharatiya Janata Party BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay made a mention before it. Article 370 of […]