New Delhi: US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will pay a two-day visit to India beginning Sunday to discuss ways to further expand the bilateral strategic engagement ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to Washington. People familiar with Austin’s visit said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and the US defence secretary are set to discuss a number…
Balasore/Bhubneshwar: Huge cranes and bulldozers have been brought in to raise a coach which has been buried by the impact of another wagon falling on as rescue workers wield gas torches and electric cutters to pull out survivors and the dead from the mangled steel of three trains that derailed one on top of another…
New Delhi: The BJP has adjourned all its programmes, scheduled for Saturday, related to the Modi government’s ninth anniversary in the wake of the tragic train accident in Balasore which has left 233 people dead so far. Party president J P Nadda posted a tweet to this effect and expressed his pain at the devastating…
Balasore: In one of the worst railway disasters in India, at least 233 people were killed and more than 900 injured when three trains collided one after another in a horrific sequence in Odisha’s Balasore district, setting off a massive rescue and evacuation process, officials said on Saturday. “Death toll rises to 233 in the Balasore…
New Delhi: With the law commission backing the sedition law, the Congress on Friday accused the BJP government of planning to make it more “draconian” and giving a message ahead of the general elections that it will be used against opposition leaders. Alleging that the BJP uses the sedition law as a tool of “subversing,…
Vadodara: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said roads of world standards are needed for India to become a USD 5 trillion economy as envisaged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Addressing a gathering in Dumad near Vadodara city, the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways assured that all highways in India will be of “world…
Kolkata: Visva-Bharati Vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty has said that the university will not restrain itself from taking legally endorsed steps to reclaim land held “illegally” by Nobel Laureate Amrtya Sen in its Santiniketan campus. The eviction notice served to Sen by VB is in the public domain and those criticising the university for serving it to…
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday attacked the government over the low debt recovery under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code and asked whether it was a mechanism to rescue stressed firms or another tool for “organised loot”. The Opposition party also asked whether the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) was aimed at helping cronies for creating…
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s assertion that the Indian Union Muslim League is a completely secular party drew a sharp response from the BJP on Friday as its leaders alleged that the Kerala party is guided by the same mindset which was behind Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s All India Muslim League. “These are the same people…
New Delhi: With great power comes great responsibility, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday quoting a famous dialogue from Hollywood blockbuster “Spiderman” to emphasise that India’s responsibility will increase in sync with its rising global stature. In an address at an event, Singh also noted that when India emerges as a superpower, it will have…
