New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a sharp attack on the government, accusing it of lacking political will and “informing Pakistan” ahead of the armed response to the Pahalgam terror attack. Speaking during a debate on Operation Sindoor, Gandhi reiterated his earlier “surrender” remark, suggesting that the Centre’s…
New Delhi: A serious Lok Sabha debate on ‘Operation Sindoor’, India’s recent cross-border military action, briefly turned light-hearted on Monday night when Nagaur MP Hanuman Beniwal made a tongue-in-cheek comment that left the House in splits. Speaking late into the session, the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) chief said, “You named the mission ‘Sindoor’… It felt…
United Nations: Cooperatives in India have gone beyond their traditional boundaries and are now a medium for innovation and self-reliance in areas such as digital services, energy and financial inclusion, Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah told the UN. Shah delivered a pre-recorded video message on Monday at a special commemorative event on…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday praised the speeches of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in the Lok Sabha for articulating the success of Operation Sindoor and India’s global outreach, respectively. In a post on X, PM Modi said, “An excellent speech by Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh Ji,…
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram: The death sentence of Nimisha Priya, the Indian nurse imprisoned in Yemen for the 2017 murder of a Yemeni national, has been officially revoked, according to a statement from the office of Indian Grand Mufti Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobakr Musliyar. The announcement, first reported by Mathrubhumi News, signals a major breakthrough in the…
New Delhi: Union minister and LJP (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan on Monday said Nitish Kumar will take oath as Bihar Chief Minister again after the assembly elections to be held later this year. Paswan’s remarks came just two days after he expressed “regret” over having to support the Nitish Kumar government, which he alleged…
Barabanki (UP): Two people were killed and 47 injured as a stampede broke out at a temple here early on Monday after a live electric wire, broken by monkeys, fell onto a tin shed, leading to panic among devotees. DGP Rajeev Krishna said that the casualties were caused by electrocution. The incident occurred at the…
New Delhi: Operation Sindoor showed the world that no terrorist is safe anywhere in Pakistan, BJP MP from Bengaluru South, Tejasvi Surya, said on Monday. Participating in the special debate on Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor in Lok Sabha, Surya called Prime Minister Narendra Modi the defender of India, and said, “Operation Sindoor showed…
Srinagar: In a breakthrough, the Army’s elite para commandos on Monday gunned down the alleged mastermind of the Pahalgam terror attack along with two of his associates in an encounter in a forest area on Srinagar’s outskirts in Kashmir, officials said here. The officials said Sulieman alias Asif, who is believed to be the mastermind…
New Delhi: India’s military action against Pakistan following the Pahalgam attack marked a “new normal” in combatting cross-border terrorism with a five-point approach that included a firm response to terror acts, not yielding to nuclear blackmail, and that blood and water cannot flow together, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in the Lok Sabha on…
