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…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra’s caretaker chief minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday said that the Mahayuti alliance would convene another meeting in Mumbai to decide on the next chief minister.Shinde’s comments came after key meeting in Delhi between Shinde, BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis, NCP’s Ajit Pawar, and other Mahayuti leaders with Union minister Amit Shah and BJP national…
Now handling 4.5 million containers, Vizhinjam port will be southern India’s largest freight terminal THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala signed Thursday a supplementary concession agreement with Adani Vizhinjam Port Pvt Ltd, paving the way for earlier-than-expected revenue gains from Vizhinjam deep-water international seaport near Thiruvananthapuram. The Rs 7,700-crore port, built as a public-private partnership with Adani Group, is…
In a post on X, Fadnavis credited Shah for inspiring party workers and acknowledged his significant role during the campaign. NEW DELHI: BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Friday expressed gratitude to Union home minister Amit Shah for his support during the Maharashtra Assembly elections. In a post on X, Fadnavis credited Shah for inspiring party…
DHAKA: Bangladesh high court on Thursday declined to issue a suo motu order banning Iskcon’s activities in the country, the decision coming despite a petition by a Supreme Court lawyer and calls from student groups for such action in the wake of clashes that erupted after denial of bail to the organization’s “former” priest Chinmoy…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: No religion should be harmed and any incident ending in violence “because of religion” is condemnable, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said Thursday while reacting to the attack on minorities in Bangladesh, report Dwaipayan Ghosh & Tamaghna Banerjee.Banerjee said she was saddened by the events, but the Bengal administration…
Ashwini Vaishnaw, minister for information and broadcasting NEW DELHI: Union I&B minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Wednesday said there is need to have stricter laws to curb vulgar content on social media and on OTT platforms.The minister, however, sought consensus on stricter laws, and urged parliamentary standing committee to take up this matter as a priority. “There…
Amit Shah with Devendra Fadnavis and Eknath Shinde in New Delhi NEW DELHI: A day after Eknath Shinde said he would accept the BJP leadership’s decision on who should be next Maharashtra CM, Mahayuti partners got down to working out details of the govt, which is likely to be formed on Dec 2. Home minister…
KOLKATA: Calling it a “rarest of rare case”, a fasttrack court in Chinsurah in West Bengal on Thursday sentenced seven persons to death in a 2020 murder case, report Dwaipayan Ghosh & Falguni Banerjee. On Oct 11 that year, the criminals killed 23-year-old Bishnu Mal and dismembered his body into six pieces, following animosity created…
