Haryana minister Anil Vij NEW DELHI: Haryana minister Anil Vij said on Thursday that US President Donald Trump is not wrong in his decision to deport illegal immigrants from the US, adding that every country has the right to expel those who enter it illegally.Vij’s remark came after 104 illegal Indian immigrants were deported in…
NEW DELHI: Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh has been witnessing an ugly consequence of human-wildlife conflict, with wild a leopard loitering unrestrained in the city, which only last year dealt with the menace of wolves.Five people were injured in Bahraich’s Bargadwa village on Thursday in recent incidents of leopard attacks, which have petrified the hamlet. “Leopard…
NEW DELHI: Two speeches of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament in the space of two days … first a day before the Delhi assembly elections and the second a day after voting in Delhi was over. What was the difference? Well, the second speech had no references to “sheesh mahal” and “AAP-da” unlike the…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday briefed Parliament on the recent deportation of 104 illegal Indian immigrants from the United States. Clarifying that the deportation process “was not a new one” and had been ongoing for several years, Jaishankar informed Rajya Sabha that a total of 15,668 illegal Indian immigrants have been…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s summit with President Donald Trump next week, India and the US on Thursday agreed to chart out an “ambitious” defence cooperation agenda, which includes stepped-up operational, intelligence, logistics and defence-industrial collaboration.This was discussed in a telephonic conversation between defence minister Rajnath Singh and his US counterpart Pete Hegseth,…
NEW DELHI: Two more exit polls for Delhi assembly elections, Axis My India and Today’s Chanakya, on Thursday predicted clean sweep for the Bharatiya Janata Party and placed Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) at a distant second. AAP has categorically dismissed the exit poll results stating that pollsters have “historically” underestimated its performance. Most…
NEW DELHI: “If we fall apart like this, it won’t be good for the country … ” Omar Abdullah’s warning on opposition unity could not have been more timely. The just-concluded Delhi assembly elections threaten to irreversibly impact opposition’s politics with the INDIA bloc divided down the middle.The AAP and the Congress – who were…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday dedicated a shayari to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge in Rajya Sabha while also praising and taking a dig at him in the same breath.During his reply to Motion of Thanks to the President’s address in Rajya Sabha, PM Modi directly targetted the Gandhi family in his over…
NEW DELHI: In a fierce attack on Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a big ‘anti-democratic’ charge at the party while citing big Bollywood names.PM Modi, while replying to Motion of Thanks in Rajya Sabha on the President’s address on Thursday said the Congress has always crushed freedom of speech in the country.Starting from Nehru…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday slammed Congress and said that expecting ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ from the oldest party will be a huge mistake.In the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, PM Modi criticised AAP and its national convener Arvind Kejriwal prior to Delhi elections. He referenced the ‘Sheesh Mahal’, alluding to the renovations at Kejriwal’s…
