New Delhi: The Congress is a democratic party in which leaders express their views freely, but Shashi Tharoor has crossed the ‘lakshman rekha’ with his repeated comments on the India-Pakistan conflict, party sources said on Wednesday. The sources made the assertion after a meeting of senior leaders, including Tharoor, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Congress…
New Delhi/Beijing: India on Wednesday outrightly rejected as “vain and preposterous” China’s renaming some places in Arunachal Pradesh and said such attempts will not alter the “undeniable” reality that the state “was, is, and will” always remain an integral part of India. New Delhi’s reaction came in response to Beijing announcing Chinese names for 27…
New Delhi: Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Wednesday claimed US President Donald Trump had volunteered to mediate in the military conflict between India and Pakistan, but New Delhi outrightly rejected any third-party intervention. At a press conference, the president of the Republican Party of India vacillated between praising the opposition for standing with the government…
Lahore: Pakistan and India on Wednesday exchanged one prisoner each — both security personnel — at the Wagah-Attari border, officials here said. Muhammadullah of the Pakistan Rangers was handed over to Pakistani officials by the Border Security Force (BSF) this morning, they said. According to the state media, Muhammadullah inadvertently crossed into India and was…
New Delhi: During the four-day intense military confrontation, the Indian armed forces intercepted and neutralised swarms of Pakistani drones to push back aerial incursions, while teams of cyber warriors on the ground countered digital intrusions and a wave of misinformation. In fact, even before India decimated nine terror camps in Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir and Pakistan under Operation…
New Delhi: The CBI is likely to question the senior management of Shapoorji Pollonji Infrastructure Gujarat Private Ltd in connection with an alleged case of bribery of Rs 85 lakh, in which a Commissioner of Income Tax and a company executive were arrested, officials said Wednesday. Viral Kantilal Mehta, deputy general manager (Taxation) of Shapoorji…
Katra/Jammu: The helicopter service to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district resumed on Wednesday after being suspended for a week due to the military standoff between India and Pakistan, officials said. This came a day after flight operations recommenced at 32 airports, including Jammu and Srinagar, following the suspension of…
New Delhi: The security cover of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has been strengthened with the addition of two bullet-resistant vehicles following a review of his Z-category armed central protection recently, official sources said on Wednesday. The move comes days after a military conflict between India and Pakistan, and amid New Delhi’s punitive diplomatic measures…
New Delhi: India on Tuesday appeared to push back against US President Donald Trump’s offer of mediation on the Kashmir issue, assertion on trade and his claims of defusing a nuclear conflict in the context of hostilities between Indian and Pakistani militaries following the Pahalgam terror attack. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) also seemed…
New Delhi: A top officer of the Indian armed forces on Tuesday briefed a gathering of foreign defence attaches on the “successful conduct” of Operation Sindoor which it said has set “new normals in India-Pakistan relations”, highlighting the country’s strength and national resolve through military superiority in the “new-age warfare”. During the nearly 30-minute closed-door…
