New Delhi: India on Friday announced that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to Pakistan to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in mid-October. It will be for the first time in nearly nine years that India’s external affairs minister will travel to Pakistan even as the ties between the two…
Chandigarh: The fate of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Vinesh Phogat of the Congress besides JJP’s Dushyant Chautala and 1027 other candidates will be decided on Saturday as elections to the 90-member Haryana assembly will be held with over 2 crore people eligible to vote. The ruling BJP is eyeing a…
Bhubaneshwar: The office of former Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said no political issue was discussed when he met Odisha Governor Raghubar Das a week ago at the Raj Bhavan here amid speculation that the former Jharkhand chief minister is interested to return to active politics. Naidu and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that the Union Cabinet’s approval of the Phase 2 of the Chennai Metro Rail project will help in easing traffic and improving sustainability and economic growth. He said on X, “Boosting ‘Ease of Living’ in a vibrant city! I congratulate the people of Chennai and Tamil…
Mumbai: Maharashtra BJP leader Harshvardhan Patil met NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai on Thursday, amid growing buzz that he is joining the Pawar-led party ahead of the state assembly elections. Patil told PTI that he met Pawar at the latter’s Silver Oaks residence in south Mumbai. “Pawar urged me to join his party…
Chandigarh: South Haryana will play a big role in the BJP’s return to power in the state for the third consecutive term following the October 5 Assembly polls, claimed Krishan Kumar, the party’s candidate from Bawal in Rewari district, on Thursday. Kumar (55), who took voluntary retirement from his position as the director of health…
Jashpur: Members of the Christian community on Thursday formed a 130-kilometre long human chain in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district seeking an FIR against BJP MLA Raymuni Bhagat for her allegedly objectionable remarks on Jesus Christ and conversions. The demonstrators linked hands from Pathalgaon to Lodum along Katni-Gumla highway peacefully against Jashpur MLA Bhagat, said Christian Adivasi…
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday said that dissident MLA P V Anvar has joined the attempts by some groups to characterise the CPI(M) and the LDF as part of both “majority and minority communalism” in the state. Vijayan said that Anvar was now targeting the CPI(M), LDF and the Left government and…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday will address the third Kautilya Economic Conclave, which will discuss various issues including job creation, green economy, artificial intelligence and public policy design. This years’ conclave will focus on several themes, including reforming the international financial architecture, financing the green transition, geo-economic fragmentation and the implications for…
Mysuru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, facing probe into the MUDA ‘scam’ case, on Thursday asserted that he is conducting himself in accordance with his conscience and confident that truth would prevail as he once again rejected opposition calls for his scalp. “Satyameva Jayate,” he declared as he spoke at the inaugural ceremony of the ten-day…
