Washington: Post the first state visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US, the two countries are forging much closer bilateral ties with high-level visits on all fronts, a senior Biden administration official has said, observing that India and the US have never had a stronger relationship than now. Modi visited the US at the…
New Delhi: Leaders of several opposition parties on Monday staged a protest in Parliament complex demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi make a statement in the House on the Manipur issue. Holding placards and banners that read “INDIA for Manipur” and “INDIA demands PM’s statement on Manipur”, the opposition parties raised slogans against the government in…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday extended by two weeks the interim bail of former Mumbai Police officer Pradeep Sharma, who was arrested in connection with the Antilia bomb scare case and the killing of businessman Mansukh Hiran, in view of his wife’s surgery. A bench of Justices AS Bopanna and Bela M Trivedi, however,…
The gaming sites, which are 45 in total across India, are posing a challenge to the security agencies as well as the concerned state governments, as more and more youngsters, especially school- and college- going, are falling prey to them. Although, the Centre has made a draft regulation for these websites in January 2023, they…
(Online Desk) Ravichandran Ashwin struck twice as India restricted West Indies to 76/2 at Stumps, on Day 4 of their ongoing second Test match, in Port of Spain, on Sunday. Tagenarine Chanderpaul (24*) and Jermaine Blackwood (20*) remained unbeaten as West Indies need 289 runs to level the two-match series. Ashwin took the wickets of…
Varanasi: A 30-member team of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) entered the Gyanvapi complex on Monday morning to carry out a scientific survey in accordance with court orders to determine if the mosque located next to the Kashi Vishwanath temple was built upon a temple. Besides the ASI team, which entered the complex around…
Hyderabad: A 51-year-old Pakistani national was released from a Central Prison here after the Telangana High Court set aside a state government order according permission to the police for detaining him in connection with a case for allegedly obtaining Indian passport fraudulently. Shaik Gulzar Khan alias Gulzar Massih was released from the Cherlapally Central prison here…
Jammu: Union minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said there should be no politics over the ‘shameful’ incident in Manipur and asked opposition parties to give up their “singular agenda” of finding faults in anything related to the BJP-led government. He also took a dig at TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over…
Imphal: The ethnic violence in Manipur that erupted on May 3 and has left over 160 dead has been largely fuelled by rumours and fake news, according to officials from various security agencies who have been monitoring the situation in the restive northeastern state. The despicable May 4 incident in Kangpokpi district, where two women were…
New Delhi: As the Lok Sabha prepares for a crucial vote on the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill 2023 during the ongoing Monsoon session, environmentalists, activists and other stakeholders across the Himalayas are sounding the alarm over the potential ramifications of the Bill in its current form. Key amendments proposed to The Forest (Conservation) Act (FCA), 1980…
