New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday called for shoring up engagement among countries of Indian Ocean region to confront challenges like safeguarding sovereignty, dealing with cases of disregard to maritime laws and flouting of long-standing pacts, in remarks seen as an oblique reference to China’s military assertiveness including along the Line of…
Islamabad/Lahore: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif Friday called for a unity government as the cash-strapped Pakistan appeared to be heading towards a hung parliament, with independent candidates backed by jailed ex-premier Imran Khan’s party springing a surprise by winning 92 out of the 226 seats for which results were declared so far. Addressing the Pakistan…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that he has already begun preparing a road map for his third term and has taken suggestions from more than 15 lakh people, asserting that the new India “will now work with super speed”. Addressing the Times Group’s ET NOW Global Business Summit, Modi said that…
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Friday said nearly 97 crore Indians will be eligible to vote in this year’s Lok Sabha elections. It also said over two crore young electors in age group of 18 to 29 years have been added in the voters’ list. There has been a six per cent increase in…
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday lambasted the previous Congress-led UPA government for its mismanagement of the economy saying the party put “family first” and left the country in “dire straits” in 2014, but it is now lecturing the Modi government on handling the economy. Initiating the debate on the ‘White Paper on…
Hyderabad: Former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao’s daughter and BRS MLC Vani Devi on Thursday appreciated the gesture of naming her father for the Bharat Ratna, the nation’s highest civilian award, and praised PM Narendra Modi for the decision. Narasimha Rao belongs to the whole nation, she said. She said she was getting calls…
New Delhi: Former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh as well as agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan will be honoured with the Bharat Ratna, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday. The government had earlier announced the country’s highest civilian honour for L K Advani and Karpoori Thakur. “Narasimha Rao steered…
Haldwani: Two persons were killed and three critically injured in the violence that broke out over the demolition of an illegally-built madrasa and a place for offering namaz inside its premises in the town where curfew has been imposed and shoot-at-sight orders issued. Nainital District Magistrate (DM) Vandana Singh and Senior Superintendent of Police Prahlad…
Mumbai: The investigation into the sensational murder of Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Abhishek Ghosalkar during a ‘Facebook Live’ by a local ‘social activist’, who also killed himself, has been transferred to the Mumbai Crime Branch, an official said on Friday. Abhishek (40), son of former MLA Vinod Ghosalkar, a loyalist of the Uddhav Thackeray-led party,…
Islamabad: Jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party-backed independent candidates seemed to have sprung a surprise as the results of the general elections in Pakistan started trickling in on Friday following unusual delays, leading to allegations of rigging. Votes are being counted in Pakistan after Thursday’s general election which was marred by allegations of rigging, sporadic…
