New Delhi: Leaders of 24 opposition parties have been invited for the second unity meeting being convened by the Congress next week in Bengaluru, which would see them further strategise plans to take on the BJP in the next Lok Sabha polls. Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi is also expected to attend a dinner on…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Abu Dhabi on July 15 after concluding a two-day visit to Paris. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Modi will hold talks with Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and ruler of Abu Dhabi. “The India-UAE Comprehensive Strategic Partnership…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said cybercrimes pose a major threat to the security of citizens across the globe in a rapidly advancing borderless digital arena. He also said that a reliable global partnership is the key to effectively combatting this menace. Shah will inaugurate the two-day G20 conference on ‘Crime and…
New Delhi: BJP MLA Purnesh Modi, the complainant in the defamation case against Rahul Gandhi, has filed a caveat in the Supreme Court seeking that he be heard if the Congress leader moves a plea challenging the high court verdict refusing to stay his conviction in the Modi surname remark case. A single judge bench…
Kolkata: A BJP fact-finding team, which arrived in West Bengal on Wednesday, said it will visit areas hit by poll violence and speak to victims to assess the ground situation. The four-member team led by former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said it plans to visit north and south Bengal districts. “Violence and killings during rural…
Kochi: A special NIA court in Kerala on Wednesday convicted six persons, who are allegedly members of now banned radical Islamic outfit Popular Front of India (PFI), in the sensational hand chopping case of a college professor in Kerala in 2010. Special NIA court judge Anil K Bhaskar found them guilty of attempted murder, conspiracy and…
Sriharikota, (AP): Four years after it broke many hearts, ISRO’s Chandrayaan is all set to soar towards the moon in its third expedition on Friday in an attempt to put the country in an elite club of nations that accomplished lunar missions with a soft landing. ‘Fat boy’ LVM3-M4 rocket will carry Chandrayaan-3 as part…
Roseau: India skipper Rohit Sharma on Tuesday said that young batter Yashasvi Jaiswal will open the Indian innings in the Test series against the West Indies since Shubman Gill has expressed his desire to bat at number three on a long term basis. Shubhman has opened the innings with his skipper since making his Test debut…
Mumbai: Ramping up their cooperation in the area of space, India and the United Kingdom will connect their space clusters, starting with Leicester space park, UK’s Minister for Science, Research and Innovation George Freeman has said. He said India and the UK are also discussing how they can better harness Lower Earth Observation orbits and the…
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao would inaugurate a temple, a mosque and a church in the premises of the new Secretariat complex here on August 25 showcasing the state’s ‘Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb’. The term ‘Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb’ refers to the fusion of Hindu Muslim cultures in the country. Rao decided to inaugurate Nalla Pochamma…
