New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Monday slammed Canada for its “double standards,” as relations between New Delhi and Ottawa continue to deteriorate following the killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada last year. “Double standards is a very mild word for it,” Jaishankar said while explaining how Canada treats other…
New Delhi: The Congress released its first list of 21 candidates for the Jharkhand Assembly polls on Monday night, fielding Finance Minister Rameshwar Oraon from the Lohardaga seat reserved for Scheduled Tribes. Senior Congress leader and the party’s in-charge for Tripura, Odisha and Nagaland, Ajoy Kumar, will contest the election from the Jamshedpur East constituency….
New Delhi: Union Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu on Monday said that the government is looking to amend rules to put perpetrators of bomb threats to airlines on a no-fly list. Nearly 100 flights have received bomb threats in seven days since October 14. All the threats were later found to be hoaxes. At…
New Delhi: Indian and Chinese negotiators have reached an agreement on patrolling along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Monday. The foreign secretary said the Indian and Chinese negotiators were in touch over the last few weeks to resolve the remaining issues. It is understood that…
New Delhi: Two top aviation security officers met Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan on Monday and discussed the unabated incidents of bomb threats to Indian airlines, leading to diversions, cancellations, and passenger inconvenience. Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) Director General (DG) Zulfiquar Hasan and Director General of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Rajwinder Singh…
Hisar: Dr. Satyawan ‘Saurabh’ and Priyanka ‘Saurabh’, a renowned writer couple from Hisar, presented their acclaimed books Titli Hai Khamosh and Deemak Lage Gulab to Haryana’s newly appointed Cabinet Minister, Ranbir Gangwa, during a meeting at his residence. Originally from Barwa village, the couple has beautifully captured the challenges of contemporary society through poetry in…
Srinagar: Former chief minister and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Monday lashed out at Pakistan for perpetrating terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, saying Islamabad will have to stop terror incidents here if it wants to have friendly relations with India. Abdullah said there can be no talks between New Delhi and Islamabad till…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said people had given a message of stability with a mandate to his government for three consecutive terms and asserted that they strengthened this expression of stability in the recent Haryana Assembly polls. Addressing the NDTV World Summit here, he also said India has a “double AI”…
New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday condoled the deaths in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal and said killing innocent civilians and spreading violence and terror among the people are crimes against humanity. A doctor and six labourers were killed when terrorists struck a tunnel construction site on the Srinagar-Leh…
New Delhi: The BJP on Sunday, citing an unverified inventory, alleged that crores of rupees were spent on state-of-the-art household goods including a “missing” hi-tech toilet seat in the 6, Flagstaff Road bungalow which was occupied for over nine years by the AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal as Delhi chief minister. Kejriwal after stepping down as…
