New Delhi: Amid a change of guard in Sri Lanka, many former Indian diplomats on Monday said the results of the presidential election in the island country were on expected lines and going forward, the two neighbours will have to be sensitive to each other’s concerns. Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake took oath as the…
Hyderabad: The World Bank has lauded the Telangana government for its progressive focus on state development. This recognition follows a recent meeting between Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and World Bank President Ajay Banga in Washington last month. Today, further discussions took place at the Telangana Secretariat, where a high-level delegation led by the World Bank’s…
Samba/Jammu: The Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday destroyed a rusted anti-tank mine found on the banks of a river in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The mine was detected by a BSF patrolling party on the banks of the Basantar river between Ballhar and Kamour border outposts around 11 am, they…
Narayanpur: An encounter broke out between security personnel and Naxalites in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh on Monday evening, a senior police official said. The gunfight started at around 4 pm in the forests of Abhujmaad along the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra inter-state border, he said. A joint team of security forces was involved in the exchange of fire…
Bengaluru: BJP MP Lahar Singh Siroya on Monday slammed the ruling Congress in Karnataka for targeting Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot. In a statement, Siroya said when the cases are piling up before the Governor, the Congress leaders are casting aspersions on Gehlot. “It is the old trick of the Congress party to attack the Constitutional authorities…
New Delhi: AAP leader Atishi took charge as the eighth chief minister of Delhi on Monday and said she would work like Bharat did by keeping his elder brother Lord Ram’s ‘khadaun’ (wooden slippers) on Ayodhya’s throne. She did not sit on the chair used by Kejriwal and said that his chair would remain unoccupied…
Lucknow: Ahead of the assembly elections in Haryana, BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday urged Dalit leaders to sever ties with the Congress and other “casteist parties” and follow the path laid down by Dr BR Ambedkar. The comments come amid attempts by the alliance of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Indian National Lok…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated Anura Kumara Dissanayake for his victory in the Sri Lankan presidential election and said he looks forward to working closely with him to further strengthen the Indo-Lanka multifaceted cooperation. Marxist leader Dissanayake was declared the winner of the Sri Lankan presidential election by the country’s Election…
New Delhi: Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that he would move out of his official residence during the upcoming Navratri festival that begins on October 3. In his first public address after tendering his resignation on September 17, the AAP chief also hit out at the BJP for allegedly implicating him…
Jammu: Union Minister and BJP president JP Nadda on Sunday said the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir are pivotal not just for the security and stability of the region, but for the stability of India as a whole. The BJP president also emphasized that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has transformed India’s political landscape…
