The security cover of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has been upgraded from the ‘Y’ category to ‘Z’, official sources said today. The Union Home Ministry has asked the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to take the charge of his security, currently provided by the Delhi Police, they said. Mr Jaishankar, 68, was being guarded...
The Centre has tightened economic security regulations by prohibiting direct participation of both domestic and overseas corporate entities having any “commercial arrangement” with hostile countries such as China and Pakistan, two people aware of the matter said on Wednesday, adding that this has been communicated to all states. The government has already amended its July...
Delhi’s air quality worsened to the “moderate” category, with an AQI of 193, and is forecasted to reach “poor” by Thursday. Cold northwesterly winds are contributing to the decline in air quality as they transport smoke from farm fires in neighboring states. The minimum temperature dipped below 20 degrees Celsius, slowing down the dispersion of...
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly held a “secret meeting” with her Indian counterpart S Jaishankar in Washington last month, a media report has said, amid a diplomatic row between the two countries over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in June.The report by the Financial Times on Tuesday came even as Canada is yet...
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva slammed the chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, over his remarks against the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and accused him of playing the victim card, on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Kejriwal, who is also the national convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party, said Modi’s goal is not to end corruption but...
The votaries of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir were its biggest abusers,” Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said on Wednesday. “By using the alibi of Article 370 and 35A, both Congress and National Conference had for decades together denied the common man the benefit of Central laws like property rights for women, voting rights...
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved establishment of an autonomous body ‘Mera Yuva Bharat’ (MY Bharat) to serve as an overarching enabling mechanism powered by technology for youth development and youth-led development, Union minister Anurag Thakur said. The body will provide equitable access to youth to actualise their aspirations and build a developed India across...
The NIA on Wednesday carried out raids at several locations in six states against the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) in connection with a case related to creating a disruption during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bihar last year, officials said. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had taken over the case registered in...
Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has accorded sanction for the prosecution of author Arundhati Roy and a former Kashmiri professor in a 2010 case related to alleged provocative speeches, Raj Niwas officials said on Tuesday. The FIR against Ms Roy and former professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain was registered following the orders of the Court of...
Aam Aadmi Party’s Sanjay Singh, arrested in the Delhi liquor policy case, will be in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate till Friday. Last week, a Delhi Court had remanded the Rajya Sabha MP to five-day custody of the probe agency which accuses him of being a “key conspirator” in the case. The ED had...