Former Jammu and Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah and former RAW secretary and ‘friend’ A S Dulat NEW DELHI: As former Jammu and Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah cries ‘betrayal’ over former RAW secretary and ‘friend’ A S Dulat‘s claim in his latest book that the senior Abdullah had privately supported the abrogation of Article 370 in…
KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and governor CV Ananda Bose were on a collision course Thursday over strife-torn Murshidabad after she urged the latter and politicians from all parties not to visit the district for a while, arguing against “fishing in troubled waters” just when normalcy was returning to areas singed by Waqf law-linked mob…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi said Thursday the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 was enacted following hundreds of complaints from people from the Muslim community, including women and widows, against the earlier system.During a meeting with a delegation of the Dawoodi Bohra community, the PM recalled receiving over 1,700 complaints about waqf…
NEW DELHI: Govt will earn from the ropeway project connecting Sonprayag, Gaurikund and Kedarnath without any investment as Adani Enterprises has quoted a share of around 42% of the revenue with NHLML, the agency implementing such projects across the country. Considering that the nearly 13 km rope-way is expected to get a large number of…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday set aside Delhi high court‘s order directing Wikimedia to remove all “defamatory and false” content on its webpage about ANI and said the order was “very broadly worded” and allowed the news agency to move HC again for removal of specific content.A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and…
NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD: In a provocative address at the Overseas Pakistanis Convention in Islamabad, Pakistan army chief Gen Asim Munir Thursday urged Pakistanis to “narrate the story” of the country’s creation to their children, framing it as a safeguard against diluting national identity.The Indian intelligence establishment saw the toxic rhetoric as a calculated move to repair…
Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti SRINAGAR/JAMMU: Peoples Democratic Party hit back Thursday at National Conference (NC) for blaming it over the abrogation of Article 370, accusing the latter of striking secret deals with BJP while defending PDP’s alliance with the saffron party as open and principled.The row erupted after former RAW chief AS Dulat claimed…
The Russian embassy in India on Thursday dismissed the claims made by Ukraine that it attacked Indian pharmaceutical company Kusum calling the news fake. It, in turn, accused the war-torn nation of attacking the warehouse saying “one of Ukrainian air defence missiles fell on Kusum Healthcare’s warehouse setting it on fire.”“In response to the accusations…
NEW DELHI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that the recalibration of global trade policies poses serious challenges to the global economy. Her comments come in the wake of the sweeping tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump which has sent jolts to the global stock markets. Speaking at the 150th anniversary celebration…
NEW DELHI: A Dawoodi Bohra community delegation met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and thanked him for the newly passed Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, describing the law as their community’s long-awaited requirement.It was a long-pending demand of the community, they said, according to news agency ANI. The delegation further expressed confidence in the Prime…
