NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Friday said that India had not received any information in advance on the indictment of industrialist Gautam Adani on bribery charges by the US department of Justice. The ministry also clarified that it has not received any summon request or warrant in the case from the US…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Friday once again called up Bangladesh government to take measures to ensure the protection of minorities in the country and said that the incidents “cannot be dismissed only as media exaggeration”.“India has consistently and strongly raised with Bangladesh government threats, targeted attacks on Hindus and other…
NEW DELHI: Amid suspense over the Maharashtra chief minister post and government formation, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Shirsat on Friday said that the deputy chief minister post will go to someone else in the party if Eknath Shinde doesn’t accept the post.Shirsat, however, asserted that Shinde will certainly not seek a berth in the Centre.“If…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Friday wrote to the Election Commission of India raising concerns over “grave inconsistencies” regarding the data pertaining to voting and counting processes of the recently concluded Maharashtra elections. It has requested for an in-person hearing to address these issues.It said that there had been “arbitrary deletion of voters and subsequent addition…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday reprimanded the opposition for continuous sloganeering and demands to suspend business for discussing Adani group allegations, along with situations in Sambhal and Manipur.Dhankhar slammed the opposition MPs and accused them of “weaponising” the rule of suspension of business to disrupt the normal working of the house.“Honorable…
Sambhal protest over mosque survey order NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the management committee of Shahi Idgah Masjid in Sambhal to approach the high court, regarding the trial court’s survey order of the mosque, which Hindu parties claim was originally a temple.The Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar,…
NEW DELHI: The central government on Thursday said that the Indians seeking asylum abroad were ‘denigrating’ the nation to obtain “personal gains”.The comments came in response to a question if there were any data available regarding the number of “Indians who have sought asylum in foreign countries during each of the last three years and…
NEW DELHI: In a joint operation on Friday, the Indian Navy and Sri Lankan navy seized approximately 500kg of crystal methamphetamine from two boats in the Arabian Sea.The boats, along with their crew and the seized narcotics are being handed over to Sri Lankan authorities for further investigation and legal action.This operation came days after…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday used a cricket analogy to describe the evolution of India’s foreign policy. He also described the changing nature of India-Pakistan policies towards each other with the progression of the former’s defensive policy to a more proactive one towards the latter.Speaking at the release of former Indian…
NEW DELHI: Indian consulate officials in Canada have been informed that they were under “audio and video surveillance and that their private communications have also been intercepted,” ministry of external affairs said on Thursday. It added that the Indian government had already lodged a protests with the Justin Trudeau government on November 2 citing “flagrant…
