New Delhi: The southwest monsoon hit Kerala on Saturday, marking its earliest arrival over the Indian mainland since 2009 when it reached the southern state on May 23, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Normally, the southwest monsoon makes its onset over Kerala by June 1 and covers the entire country by July 8. It…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said if the Union government and states work together like Team India, no goal is impossible. Modi is chairing the 10th Governing Council meeting of Niti Aayog. There is a need to increase the speed of development, he said. “We have to increase the speed of development….
New Delhi: With India all set to tour England for a five-game Test series, the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) took centre stage and announced India’s squad for the upcoming tour. It is interesting to note that the Indian team will take on England across five Test matches, starting from June 20….
Latehar (Jharkhand) Two Maoists, including JJMP supremo Pappu Lohra, who was carrying a bounty of Rs 10 lakh on his head, were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jharkhand’s Latehar district on Saturday morning, police said. Lohra, the chief of the Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP), a Maoist splinter group, and his associate…
Singapore: A key priority for Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will be to deepen the trade-focused country’s relations with the major powers, especially the US and China, engaging with them honestly in a principled manner while not getting caught in their rivalry. Speaking after his newly re-elected government was sworn in on Friday, Wong stressed,…
United Nations: India ripped through Pakistan’s “disinformation” at the UN on the Indus Waters Treaty, asserting that Islamabad violated its spirit by inflicting three wars and thousands of terror attacks on India that seek to hold hostage lives of civilians, religious harmony and economic prosperity. “We are constrained to respond to the disinformation being carried…
New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump has said it is ok for Apple to go to India to build its plants, but then the tech company will not be able to sell its products in America without tariffs. Trump’s remarks came as he signed multiple executive orders in the Oval Office to boost US nuclear…
In a development that raises more questions than it answers, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently issued a statement affirming the safety and security of Pakistan’s nuclear facilities. This came amid unverified reports of a radiation leak following a reported Indian strike near Pakistan’s Nur Jahan airbase, believed to be in proximity to key…
Sandhyaa Bombay How loyal are we to our country—and to one another? We proudly proclaim that we do not target Pakistani civilian populations, air bases, or the regular army. Yet it is our own civilians who continue to bleed at the hands of terrorists. And even worse, some among us, lured by money or ideology,…
Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday said its command and control structures are robust. The Foreign Office here also said the country remained fully confident in the strength of its “comprehensive nuclear security regime”. “Pakistan remains fully confident in the strength of its comprehensive nuclear security regime and the robustness of its command and control structures,” the…
