Nagpur: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that fanaticism creates anger and hatred, which lead to fights and wars. Speaking at a function during his visit to a Shiva temple in Nagpur city on Thursday, he said that the basic cause of all problems in the world lies in five or six…
New York: The US “got involved directly” when India and Pakistan “went to war”, and President Donald Trump was able to deliver peace between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has claimed. Since May 10, Trump has repeated his claim many times that he “helped settle” the tensions between India and Pakistan…
New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit India later this year, confirmed National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval on Thursday. His visit comes at a time when India is facing constant pressure from the United States (US) for buying Russian oil and has imposed 50 per cent tariffs on Indian products, barring a few…
New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump has ruled out the possibility of trade negotiations with India until the issue of tariffs is resolved. “No, not until we get it resolved,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday in response to a question on whether he expects increased trade negotiations with India since he has…
In the annals of independent India’s political theatre, no Opposition leader has plumbed the depths of irrelevance and absurdity quite like Rahul Gandhi. There are many possible reasons for this steady fall — a questionable grasp of history, an allergy to facts, a silver-spoon upbringing untested by hardship, or perhaps the congenital arrogance of dynasty…
It all began, as most outrages do these days, with a WhatsApp forward. A quiet evening, a ping, and there she was – Sushma Swaraj in 2014, addressing the Lok Sabha as Leader of the Opposition, exuding grace, clarity, and a level of dignity so foreign to today’s Parliament that it felt almost fictional. She…
New Delhi: Asserting that a “paradigm shift” in warfare strategy is taking place in the contemporary theatre of war, a parliamentary panel on defence has recommended that “urgent and coordinated” efforts by all stakeholders may be made to achieve excellence in hybrid and modern war tactics. The Committee, in its report presented in Lok Sabha…
Srinagar: Three security force personnel were injured in a fresh gunfight on Thursday as the anti-terror operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district entered the seventh day, the longest so far this year, officials said. Jammu and Kashmir Police chief Nalin Prabhat visited the operation area to take stock of the situation. Army’s Northern Commander…
New Delhi: In a show of unity, top INDIA bloc leaders held a dinner meeting at the residence of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday and vowed to fight the electoral rolls’ revision in Bihar as well as what they described as the “vote chori model” of the BJP-Election Commission. This was the first physical…
The Modi government has tabled a forward-looking National Sports Policy in the Lok Sabha, promising to overhaul India’s sports ecosystem. Among its ambitious goals: making India one of the top 10 nations in Olympic medal tallies by 2036, establishing sports science institutes, identifying talent early, and mainstreaming sports education through National Sports Education Boards. These…
