NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday criticised the Congress party’s “divisive mindset”, specifically targeting the controversial remarks made by Sam Pitroda, and questioned whether the DMK, a key ally of the Congress, would sever ties with the party for the sake of Tamil “culture and pride”.The Prime Minister alleged that if voted to…
MUMBAI: India is the origin of the largest number of international migrants – around 18 million, with large diasporas living in UAE, US and Saudi Arabia. It continued its march as the top country receiving remittances, but 2022 was spectacular with the figure crossing the $100 mark.According to the World Migration Report, 2024, released in…
NEW DELHI: Karnataka Police has summoned BJP National President JP Nadda and party member Amit Malviya to Bengaluru’s High Grounds police station, asking them to appear in connection with a tweet posted by BJP Karnataka that allegedly targeted the SC/ST community.“For the purpose of investigation of the said case, you are hereby directed to appear…
NEW DELHI: Former Jammu and Kashmir CM Ghulam Nabi Azad was one of the flyers who got stuck after his Delhi-Srinagar Air India Express flight got cancelled on Wednesday. Expressing discontentment over the inconvenience caused, Azad said, “Air India should be shut down again”, further adding that it has a “bad culture”.“If the flights have…
NEW DELHI: JD(S) leader HD Revanna was on Wednesday sent to judicial custody till May 14. He was arrested on May 4 by SIT officials in a kidnapping case linked to a larger obscene videos case, in which his son Prajwal has also been charged. HD Revanna was in the custody of the State Investigation…
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday upheld the renaming by Maharashtra govt of Aurangabad and Osmanabad cities and revenue districts each as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Dharashiv respectively. “We have not doubt that the notifications renaming Aurangabad city and revenue district as Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar and Osmanabad city and revenue district as Dharashi do not…
NEW DELHI: Opening a new front to attack the Congress and Rahul Gandhi, Prime Minister Modi on Wednesday accused the grand old party of hoarding black money from the Adanis and the Ambanis to stop all attacks against the top industrialists of India. Prime Minster Modi, who is on a whirlwind tour of Telangana and…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Sam Pitroda on Wednesday courted another controversy as he compared Indians from different parts of the nation to Chinese, Arabs, Whites and Africans while talking about diversity and democracy in India during an interview.“We are a shining example of democracy in the world…we could hold country together as diverse as India…
BJP may have become more visible across the southern states in these Lok Sabha elections with a slew of campaigns by PM Narendra Modi and others, but for it to go beyond Karnataka, it needs a foothold in Telangana. India’s newest state, carved out of a united Andhra Pradesh, has some key ingredients to make…
NEW DELHI: Do you wear an un-ironed shirt or saree to work, by design? What if that’s the memo? Scientists of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India’s largest civilian network of research labs, are turning up in wrinkled clothes on Mondays, wearing their green consciousness on their crumpled sleeves.“In a step towards energy…
