Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said all security forces and agencies should make joint efforts to completely eliminate Left Wing Extremism by March 2026. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will play a very important role in this effort, Shah said on Monday while chairing a review meeting to assess the Left Wing Extremism (LWE)...
Delhi Police on Wednesday launched a drive for the identification of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants residing in the national capital, a day after the LG Secretariat ordered a crackdown on such persons. “The drive was conducted at various parts of Delhi including Kalindi Kunj, Shaheen Bagh and Jamia Nagar areas. The local police officers conducted door-to-door...
India’s atomic power capacity has almost doubled in the past decade from 4,780 megawatts to 8,081 megawatts and it would be tripled by 2031, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Wednesday. Responding to a question in the Lok Sabha, Singh who holds key portfolios in the Prime Minister’s Office, including the Department of Atomic Energy...
India and the United Arab Emirates will look to further their already-strong strategic partnership to an all-time high when External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his counterpart Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan will meet in Delhi today for a comprehensive strategic dialogue. Mr Jaishankar and Sheikh Al Nahyan will review the entire gamut of ties...
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva on Tuesday alleged that with the public money used by AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal to renovate his 6 Flagstaff Road official bungalow when he held the chief minister’s post, houses for poor could have been constructed. “The funds spent on the lavish lighting and bathroom fittings of the palace [official...
Revenue Secretary Sanjay Malhotra has been appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He will take charge from Wednesday for three years, the government said in a statement. Mr Malhotra is a 1990-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Rajasthan cadre. He is a Computer Science graduate from the Indian Institute of...
For how long freebies can be given?” the Supreme Court asked on Monday while stressing the need for creating job opportunities and capacity building for migrant workers being given free ration since the Covid pandemic. A bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Manmohan was surprised when the Centre informed the court that 81 crore...
Parties belonging to the INDIA bloc are likely to back a Congress no-confidence motion against Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar alleging partisan functioning in the Upper House, sources have said. Sources said all the INDIA bloc parties — including Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party and Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party that do...
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said today that he conveyed New Delhi’s concerns to Dhaka over the attacks on minorities in Bangladesh. In a meeting with Bangladeshi Foreign Adviser Mohammad Touhid Hossain, Mr Misri conveyed that the attacks on religious institutions and places of worship are “regrettable”. Mr Misri also conveyed to Bangladesh’s interim government that...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday accused former Congress president Sonia Gandhi of having connections with an organisation funded by the George Soros Foundation, which has supported the idea of Kashmir as an independent nation. The ruling party said in a series of posts on X that this association shows the influence of foreign...