Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Telangana unit on Thursday condemned Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for what it termed a blatant insult to Hindu religious sentiments during the ongoing Saraswati Pushkaralu festival at Kaleshwaram. The party expressed deep outrage over the placement of Goddess Saraswati’s image at the feet of a massive cut-out of…
Doha: US President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that India has offered to drop all tariffs on American goods. Speaking at a business roundtable in Doha, Trump also said he had a “little problem” with Tim Cook, and he told the Apple CEO that he does not want him to build iPhones in India. Trump,…
Srinagar: Three unidentified terrorists were killed in a gunfight in South Kashmir’s Tral Thursday morning. The operation that was launched early Thursday morning following inputs about the presence of terrorists is in progress. Officials said a joint team of forces cordoned off Nader village of Tral in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. As the joint team…
Washington: US President Donald Trump said he’s asked Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook to stop building plants in India, taking aim at the iPhone maker’s plans to diversify its manufacturing beyond China. “I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday,” Trump said of his conversation with the Apple chief executive officer in Qatar, where he’s…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to set up on “top priority basis” dedicated POCSO courts to exclusively deal with cases of sexual offences against children. A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and P B Varale said due to the inadequacy of the number of exclusive courts for the Protection…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu has posed 14 crucial questions to the Supreme Court over its April 8 verdict that fixed timelines for governors and the President to act on bills passed by state assemblies. Exercising her power under the rarely used Article 143 (1), President Murmu said in the present circumstances, it appears that…
Darbhanga (Bihar): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had agreed to hold a caste census “out of fear” of the country’s deprived population, to which the opposition was lending its voice. The leader of the opposition made the remark at a charged-up interaction with students in Darbhanga district of…
Srinagar: Pakistan’s nuclear weapons should be brought under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency as they are not safe in such a rogue nation, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday. The defence minister’s comments came days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India would not tolerate “nuclear blackmail” by Pakistan and would…
New Delhi: What sort of statements are you making? The Supreme Court on Thursday asked Madhya Pradesh minister Vijay Shah, who has challenged a high court order directing an FIR against him for his remarks targeting Colonel Sofiya Qureshi. It will hear his plea on May 16. The matter was mentioned for urgent listing before…
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Thursday supported the calls for boycotting trade and tourism with Turkey, saying Indians understand that their hard-earned money should not be spent on those helping enemies of the country. Chandrasekhar said that India had reached out to help Turkey during the earthquake there through its ‘Operation Dost’ in…
