India must build “deep national strengths” for its transition towards a leading power and the country’s goals and ambitions cannot be determined by the goodwill of others, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday. In a virtual address at the Asia Economic Dialogue held in Pune, he said the vision of the Narendra Modi...
In a fit of rage, three young men stabbed a 15-year-old boy to death in a park in west Delhi’s Inderpuri after an altercation between them, police said today. The murder happened on Tuesday in Harit Park in the Inderpuri. The accused, all minors, fled the scene after the incident, a senior police officer said....
TMC strongman Shajahan Sheikh, accused of sexual abuse and land grabbing in Sandeshkhali, was arrested in the early hours of Thursday after being on the run for 55 days that witnessed violent protests led by local women and a fierce political slugfest. Additional Director-General of Police (South Bengal) Supratim Sarkar said Sheikh was arrested from...
During a demolition drive by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), a house of a rat-hole miner was also demolished who was among the rescuers who saved the lives of 41 trapped workers in Uttarkashi’s Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand last year. The DDA razed several houses in Khajoori Khas on Wednesday, and one of those now...
A day after supporters of Rajya Sabha winner from Congress, Syed Nasir Hussain, allegedly raised “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans in the corridors of the Vidhana Soudha, the BJP on Wednesday demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah-led Congress government for “providing protection to pro-Pakistani and anti-India elements” in the State and demanded National Investigation Agency (NIA)...
Following a dramatic Rajya Sabha election, which was marred by cross-voting and delivered the Congress-ruled State’s lone Rajya Sabha seat to the BJP candidate, the Himachal Pradesh government finds itself facing a political crisis. The Congress scrambled to save its government in Himachal Pradesh, amid dramatic developments that included the resignation of high-profile minister Vikramaditya Singh and the...
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal yet again for questioning in the Delhi Excise policy ‘scam’. The Chief Minister has been asked to appear before the probe agency on March 4. This is for the eight time that Kejriwal has been summoned by the ED in connection with the money laundering case linked...
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva accused the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government of neglecting the long-standing issue of disputed water bills and resorting to theatrical tactics instead. Sachdeva said, “It is now clear that the Arvind Kejriwal government has no interest in resolving the issue of disputed bills, which is affecting millions of consumers of the...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday exhorted Indian Inc to align itself with the goal of ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047, when India will complete 100 years of independence. Addressing a session on ‘Viksit Bharat @ 2047: Viksit Bharat & industry’, organised by Ficci, the minister also assured the industry that reforms will continue in the...
Nitasha Kaul – the Indian-origin British academic deported by the government over the weekend after landing at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport – has hit back at claims she was refused entry because she is “married to a Pakistani… a pawn of China… a puppet (of the) West…” Ms Kaul – who government sources claim was deported because of...