Ujjain (MP): Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh on Friday said contrary to the Centre’s claim, terrorism cases are on the rise in Jammu and Kashmir, and referred to the latest attack on an Army vehicle that led to the death of five soldiers. The former Madhya Pradesh chief minister maintained terror activities were largely confined to…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Telangana High Court order granting protection from arrest till April 25 to YSR Congress Party Lok Sabha member Y S Avinash Reddy in a case pertaining to the murder of former Andhra Pradesh Minister Y S Vivekananda Reddy. Observing that an “atrocious and unacceptable” order was passed…
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday termed as “most serious” reports of the Election Commission identifying “defective” VVPAT machines and asked the poll body to take everyone into confidence to help restore public faith in the integrity of the electoral process. The opposition party posed several questions to the EC, and said it must respond with…
New Delhi: Indian celebrities and top politicians ranging from Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi lost verified blue ticks on their Twitter accounts after Elon Musk’s microblogging site started removing check mark icons from accounts that did not pay a subscription fee. Twitter has begun removing the check…
Singapore: Nearly 100 local artists are staging various art forms, including Carnatic and Hindustani Music, Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, and Odissi, at an art festival being organised by the Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society (SIFAS). “The Festival of Arts 2023 showcases how artists can experiment, push borders and expand horizons and yet be entertaining, pure and…
Washington: A major India-US bilateral defence collaboration is in the works for India to make sophisticated modern defence equipment, the Biden administration’s point person for South and Central Asia said on Thursday, hoping an announcement regarding this will be made in the next few months. “I think it makes eminent sense for India to produce world-class…
Washington: As many as 44 Indian-American organisations have condemned the repeated attacks and instances of vandalism at various Indian institutions and the recent attacks on Indian diplomatic missions in San Francisco, London, and Brisbane, which they said have left the community in a state of shock and fear. Under the banner of “Indian Diaspora Against Hate,”…
United Nations: India is looking “positively” at participating in the meeting of Special Envoys on Afghanistan to be hosted by the UN chief Antonio Guterres in Doha next month, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. UN Secretary-General Guterres will be hosting the meeting in Doha, the capital of Qatar, on May 1 and 2. “We’re…
Washington: The US Senate has confirmed Radha Iyengar Plumb, a national security expert, as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defence for Acquisition and Sustainment, the latest Indian-American to be named by the Biden administration for a key position. President Joe Biden had nominated Plumb, currently serving as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defence,…
Bhubaneswar: A pal of gloom descended at Khandayat Sahi in Odisha’s Puri district as the people of the village came to know that a son of the soil was among the five Army personnel killed after their vehicle caught fire following a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. The deceased Odia jawan has been…
