WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday introduced the prestigious legion Credit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his leadership in elevating the strategic partnership of the two countries and India’s emergence as a world power. The Indian Ambassador to the United States, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, accepted the award on …
Read More »Why the DDC elections in Jammu and Kashmir are a referendum on Article 370 | India News
NEW DELHI: Votes will be counted for the major District Development Council (DDC) elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, and the contest was held primarily between the People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration and the BJP. The results of the DDC elections are important to …
Read More »Kamal Haasan Promises ‘Payment’ to Women for Housework, Reveals Economic Agenda for TN | India News
KANCHEEPURAM: actor-politician Kamal haasan On Monday he assured housewives ‘payment’ for their work at home, computer with high-speed internet to all homes and transformation of farmers into agribusiness if his MNM party won power in 2021 Tamil nadu assembly elections. Revealing his party’s seven-point “Economic and Governance Agenda”, he also …
Read More »Center suspends all UK flights, night curfew in Mumbai | India News
NEW DELHI: India on Monday suspended all scheduled passenger flights to and from the UK between December 23 and December 31, joining dozens of countries that have restricted limited or outright travel bans in a global fight to prevent the new strain of coronavirus from rapidly spreading across Britain. Travelers …
Read More »Russia backs S-400 for India amid threat of US sanctions | India News
NEW DELHI: As a threat to US sanctions looms over countries that buy advanced military equipment from Russia, Moscow It has backed its impending supply of the S-400 surface-to-air missile system to India, saying both India and Russia consider all sanctions other than those imposed by the UN Security Council …
Read More »The parliamentary committee warns the Center against accelerating the authorization of vaccines
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Internal Affairs recommended on Monday that emergency use authorization should be granted to any coronavirus vaccine in the country only after proper consideration and conducting its trials with a sufficient sample size. Meanwhile, the Maharashtra government decided on Monday to send flyers from Europe and …
Read More »Double-digit challenge: after Prashant Kishor’s Bengal survey forecast, strong response from BJP | India News
NEW DELHI: Election Strategist Prashant Kishor, who has ruffled many feathers at the Mamata Trinamool Congress, unleashed a new round of confrontation with the BJP on Monday. Kishor, who is Mamata’s key aide in West Bengal, who is at the polls, has claimed that he would leave the Twitter space …
Read More »Sena Links Ram Temple Fundraiser to 2024 LS Polls; BJP refutes | India News
MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena on Monday alleged that the mass contact initiative to raise funds from the public for the Ram temple construction in Ayodhya it is akin to “campaigning” for the 2024 general election on behalf of Lord Ram. The BJP, however, dismissed the charge, saying it is not …
Read More »Sharad Pawar talks to Mamata as OPPN leaders support TMC in the fight against the Center | India News
KOLKATA: In the midst of the increasingly intense struggle between the BJP and the TMC in west bengal before the assembly elections, NCP supreme Sharad Pawar has joined several other opposition leaders in siding with the prime minister Mamata banerjee in his battle against the saffron field and the Center. …
Read More »India’s leopard population increases 60% in 4 years | India News
NEW DELHI: India’s leopard population increased to 12,852 in 2018 from around 8,000 in 2014, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday. The minister was publishing the ‘State of Leopards in India Report 2018 ‘. The minister stated that the increase in leopard numbers, followed by similar reports on tigers …
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