New Delhi: India and Malaysia on Tuesday elevated their ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim held extensive talks focusing on expanding cooperation in several sectors, including trade, investment and defence. A pact on promoting recruitment of Indian workers in Malaysia and protection of their…
New Delhi: With the Centre withdrawing the latest advertisement for lateral entry in bureaucracy, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the Congress will protect the Constitution and the reservation system at all costs and foil “conspiracies” of the BJP. His remarks came after Union Minister of State for Personnel…
Srinagar: Over five lakh pilgrims performed the annual Amarnath Yatra this year as the pilgrimage concluded on Monday with the Chhari-Mubarak Pujan ritual, officials said. Last year, around 4.5 lakh pilgrims visited the shrine. This year 5.12 lakh yatris had darshan of the naturally-formed ice lingam at the holy cave shrine in the south Kashmir…
New Delhi: Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa arrived here on Monday to hold the third India-Japan ‘2+2’ dialogue that is expected to review the situation in the Indo-Pacific region and explore ways to expand bilateral strategic ties. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will hold the talks with their Japanese counterparts…
Chennai: The ruling DMK does not have any need for secret ties with the BJP merely because it invited Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to release a commemorative coin marking the birth centenary of its leader M Karunanidhi, DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Monday. The party was strongly moored…
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday called West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee “shameless” and demanded her resignation, alleging that crucial evidence was destroyed at her behest to save the culprits in the rape and murder of a medic in Kolkata. It also slammed leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc, including the Congress’ Rahul Gandhi,…
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the special court for people’s representatives, slated to hear complaints against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in the alleged Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) site allotment ‘scam’, to defer its proceedings till the next date of hearing on August 29. “No injunction has been granted,” said Justice M Nagaprasanna,…
Kolkata: CBI officers for the fourth consecutive day on Monday questioned the former principal of RG Kar Medical College, Sandip Ghosh in connection with their probe into the rape and murder of a woman doctor. Ghosh reached the CBI’s city office at CGO Complex on Monday morning, an official said. Ghosh was asked to specify…
Kolkata: Kolkata Police on Sunday summoned TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, hours after he demanded that the CBI interrogate Kolkata Police commissioner and former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Roy had earlier in the day called upon the Central Bureau of Investigation, which is probing the rape and murder of a woman…
Ranchi: Former Jharkhand Chief Minister and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader Champai Soren on Sunday expressed his pain over the way he was treated by his own party and said that “he was devastated as his self-respect was harmed” when he was asked to resign from his post after Chief Minister Hemant Soren was released on…
