NEW DELHI: Foreign minister Jaishankar‘s visit to Pakistan later this month, although it’s for SCO summit and can’t be seen as a peace outreach, opens the possibility of a rare high-level visit from India to Islamabad at a time when ties remain downgraded since the revocation of special status of J&K in Aug 2019.The decision…
NEW DELHI: For the first time in nine years, an Indian foreign minister will travel to Pakistan with the govt confirming Friday that S Jaishankar will represent India at the SCO heads of govt meeting in Islamabad on Oct 15-16.TOI had first reported on Aug 25 that Pakistan had invited PM Modi for the meeting….
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake told foreign minister S Jaishankar in a meeting that Lankan territory would never be allowed to be used in a manner inimical to India’s security interests, govt said in a readout.Both countries also agreed in meetings with Jaishankar, who became the first foreign minister to visit Sri Lanka since…
NEW DELHI: With China steadily eroding India’s air combat advantage along the frontier by deploying a greater number of aircraft, the Indian Air Force chief on Friday said his force was also upgrading its forward airbases and advance landing grounds, while asking Hindustan Aeronautics Limited for faster delivery of indigenous Tejas fighters and the private…
LUCKNOW: The suspect who shot and killed a govt school teacher, his wife and the couple’s two daughters in their house in UP‘s Amethi on Thursday evening has been identified as an allegedly jealous lover whose WhatsApp status before the crime read, “Today five people will die.”Investigators said suspect Chandan Verma, who was on the…
NEW DELHI: Protecting a journalist who is facing a criminal case for writing what was perceived to be against Uttar Pradesh govt, Supreme Court said the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression should be respected in a democracy and criticising govt should not be grounds for initiating criminal prosecution of writers and scribes.A…
GPS spoofing: Flight tracking for Lufthansa Frankfurt-Mumbai flight LH 756 of October 3 shows the aircraft overflying Israel while the Airbus A340 did not take this route NEW DELHI: The India head of a major western airline received a strange query from his staff on Friday: “Why are we still overflying Israel?” The official quickly…
NEW DELHI: Protesting junior doctors in Kolkata called off their “total cease work” on Friday and resumed their service while also issuing a 24-hour ultimatum to the Mamata Banerjee government to meet their demands or else they would launch an indefinite hunger strike.The doctors had called for “total cease work” demanding better safety and security…
Gaganyaan group Captain Angad Pratap BENGALURU: In an online talk Friday, the first such for any of the four astronaut-designates of the Gaganyaan programme since their selection, Group Captain Angad Pratap said that as India’s human spaceflight programme evolves, the astronaut pool would become more diverse and that aspirants should internalise that there are no…
NEW DELHI: Pawan Khera, media in charge of the All India Congress Committee, on Friday listed out the work done by Rahul Gandhi in the first 100 days since he became the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha. Gandhi traveled across the country and raised issues of the common people such as farmers, laborers,…
