NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge‘s remark that the BJP leadership would have been languishing in jail if Congress had got just 20 more seats in the Lok Sabha polls has drawn an aggressive response from BJP, with former I&B minister Anurag Thakur accusing him of harbouring an “intolerant and dictatorial mindset“.“The mask of love…
NEW DELHI: India and China agreed to redouble their efforts and work urgently to achieve complete disengagement in the remaining areas of eastern Ladakh, which India sees as essential for normalising Sino-Indian ties, in a meeting between NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi on the margins of BRICS NSAs meeting in St…
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu, PM Narendra Modi and prominent leaders of the country condoled the passing of CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury with the PM calling him a “leading light of the Left known for his ability to connect across the political spectrum“.Murmu said Yechury, a committed ideologue, won friends across party lines. “Saddened…
NEW DELHI: Describing India’s ties with China as complex, foreign minister S Jaishankar said roughly 75% of India’s “disengagement problems” in eastern Ladakh were resolved and India could look at “other possibilities” if the disengagement process was fully completed and peace and tranquility restored on the border.Jaishankar, however, said the two countries were faced with…
NEW DELHI: Grappling with just 30 fighter squadrons when at least 42 are needed to tackle China and Pakistan, the IAF has called for majorly ramping up the production rate of indigenous Tejas fighter jets, even using the public-private partnership route.The good news is that US company General Electric is now likely to begin from…
West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose, on Thursday, said that he will socially boycott chief minister Mamata Banerjee and will not appear with her at any public events in view of people’s outcry over the RG Kar hospital impasse.“I will not be sharing any public platform with the chief minister. I will take proactive steps…
NEW DELHI: The eviction drive in Assam turned violent on Thursday as a mob clashed with the police, which to push back the protestors, resorted to lathi charge and opened fire — leading to the death of two people. Assam Police was carrying out the drive to evict alleged encroachers in the Kamrup (Metropolitan) district…
NEW DELHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a separate bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of BRICS Summit in Russia next month.During a one-on-one meeting with National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval, Putin conveyed his proposal and extended warm regards to PM Modi, referring to him as “a great friend…
NEW DELHI: Engineer Rashid, who recently stepped out of jail after interim bail in a terror-funding case, said on Thursday he would support the opposition INDIA bloc candidates in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir elections if it promises to restore Article 370, which granted the Valley a special status.“If INDIA alliance assures us that it…
NEW DELHI: Sitaram Yechury was once a young firebrand from Chennai who made his mark in Indian politics with an audacious stand against one of India’s most formidable leaders Indira Gandhi back in the 1970s.Sitaram Yechury, who would go on to become a stalwart of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), began his journey…
