New Delhi: The India-Sri Lanka free trade agreement (FTA), signed way back in 1998, “needs to be upgraded”, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya said on Friday. In her address at NDTV World Summit here, she also said that as the island nation rebuilds, its partnership with India has “evolved into a forward-looking, multi-faceted collaboration…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he guarantees that the day is not far when the nation will be rid of Maoist terror, and hit out at the previous Congress regime for nurturing “urban Naxals” and turning a blind eye to the violence unleashed by them. Addressing the NDTV World Summit here,…
Jagadalpur (Chhattisgarh) As many as 210 Maoist cadres, including one Central Committee member, surrendered before authorities in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur on Friday, making it the largest mass surrender in the history of anti-Naxal operations in the state, officials said. With this, a total of 238 Naxalites have quit the path of violence and joined the mainstream…
Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Friday reshuffled his cabinet by inducting 19 MLAs as ministers, taking the total strength of his council of ministers, including himself, to 26, and elevated junior home minister Harsh Sanghavi to the post of Deputy Chief Minister. Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat administered the oath of office and secrecy…
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy and author Sudha Murty have “some misconceptions” about the ongoing social and educational survey being conducted in the state. “There is a notion that this is a survey for backward castes,” Siddaramaiah told reporters here. “It is not a backward classes…
Pathanamthitta (Kerala): A local court in Ranni here on Friday granted custody of Unnikrishnan Potty, the prime accused in the Sabarimala gold missing case, to the SIT probing the matter. The Judicial First Class Magistrate Court granted the custody of Potty to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) till October 30. The accused claimed he had…
Patna: CPI(ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya has charged the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar with serving its people a “cocktail” of crime, corruption, and communalism, the three “Cs” on which the Chief Minister had promised not to compromise. In an interview with PTI here, the Left leader described as “scary” the situation in the…
Lucknow: World Bank Group President Ajay Banga has praised Uttar Pradesh’s efforts to integrate technology with agriculture, describing the state’s “resilient farming model” a global example for small and marginal farmers. Speaking at the AgriConnect Flagship event during the 2025 Annual Meetings of the World Bank, Banga showcased the UP model, having visited the state…
New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday released its first list of 48 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, fielding its state unit chief Rajesh Ram from the Kutumba seat and CLP leader Shakeel Ahmad Khan from Kadwa. The party announced the candidates even before finalizing the seat-sharing arrangement with its Mahagathbandhan allies, including the…
New Delhi: India on Thursday said it is closely monitoring the situation arising out of the conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said India remains fully committed to the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence of Afghanistan. “Three things are clear – one, that Pakistan hosts terrorist organizations and sponsors terrorist…
