New Delhi: Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday raised the issue of air pollution in major cities of the country and sought a discussion on it in the Lok Sabha. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Gandhi said the discussion on the issue can be framed in an interesting manner where the opposition…
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha on Friday paid tributes to former Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, who passed away this morning, with Chairman C P Radhakrishnan saying that the country has lost a respected parliamentarian and an able administrator. Patil served as a member of the Rajya Sabha, representing the state of Maharashtra, from 2004 to…
Belagavi(Karnataka): Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar and over 30 Congress legislators, including some ministers, met for a dinner late on Thursday night, party sources said. Ministers K H Muniyappa, Mankal Vaidya, Dr M C Sudhakar, MLAs N A Haris, Ramesh Bandisiddegowda, H C Balakrishna, Ganesh Hukkeri, Darshan Dhruvanarayana, Ashok Kumar Rai, and K Y Nanjegowda…
New Delhi: A delegate entering the Red Fort complex from Delhi’s Chandni Chowk side has to go through a labyrinthine set of security barricades before heading past the heavily guarded Lahori Gate area to gain admission to the venue of a key UNESCO meet being held in India for the first time. Security personnel, both…
Islamabad: Pakistan has summoned the ambassador of Norway and issued a demarche over “unwarranted attendance” of court proceedings in a human rights case. Ambassador Per Albert Ilsaas on Thursday attended a Supreme Court proceeding pertaining to controversial social media posts by rights activist Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha. His attendance caught…
Dhaka: Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia’s health condition deteriorated on Thursday night and she was placed on ventilator support, doctors said. “Her breathing difficulties increased, her oxygen level fell, and carbon dioxide levels rose,” according to a statement by the chief of the medical board cardiologist Shahabuddin Talukdar. It said the 80-year-old former premier…
Chintoor (Andhra Pradesh): At least nine people died, and 22 were injured after a bus fell off a road and turned turtle here in Alluri Sitaramaraju district in the early hours of Friday, police said. They said the bus, which was headed to neighbouring Telangana from Chittoor, was carrying 37 people, including the driver and…
Latur: Senior Congress leader and former Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil passed away at his hometown Latur in Maharashtra on Friday morning. Patil, 90, passed away at his residence ‘Devghar’ after a brief illness, family sources said. He is survived by his son, Shailesh Patil, daughter-in-law Archana, who is a BJP leader, and two granddaughters….
Diplomacy, in the hands of seasoned practitioners, is a craft. In the hands of amateur showmen, it is often a ping-pong match—complete with theatrics, overacting, and unforced errors. In the last few months, the India–US equation has offered a strange combination of both, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump engaged in…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on Thursday discussed ways to sustain momentum in the bilateral economic partnership in a phone conversation amid signs of the two sides inching closer to firm up a much-awaited trade deal. The phone talks between the two leaders came on a day Indian and…
