Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a meeting of the council of ministers on July 3 amid heightening speculation about a ministerial shake-up that might overlap with changes in the BJP organisation.
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval received a briefing from his Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev about the aborted coup by the Wagner Group, a mercenary army that went on a rampage last week against Moscow under its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former ally of President Vladimir Putin.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she had a “close call” as her helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in Sevoke due to bad weather two days ago.Noting that she was touched by everyone's wishes for her good health, the TMC supremo said that she was slowly recovering after sustaining injuries while alighting from the chopper.
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strong pitch for a uniform civil code, Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday broke from the opposition ranks to extend "in principle" support to the proposal, citing Article 44 of the Constitution, even as Congress called it a tactic by an "agenda-driven majoritarian government" to divert attention from its failures.
A man has been held for allegedly spitting, urinating and defecating on an AI flight between Mumbai and Delhi recently. Accused Ram Singh works as a cook in an African country.
The BJP-led government in Manipur invoked the "no-work-no-pay" whip on Monday against nearly one lakh employees across the hierarchy who have been away from their offices without authorised leave since violence erupted on May 3, especially those from the hill districts posted in the valley and vice-versa.
Hundreds of tourists and locals were left stranded in cars and buses in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh the past 24 hours as the Chandigarh-Manali highway remained closed till Monday evening as heavy rain battered the hill state, which has recorded at least nine deaths in flash floods and landslides in the past three days.
For the first time in 62 years, the monsoon arrived in Delhi and Mumbai on the same day — 14 days late in India’s financial capital and two days ahead of the normal date in the national capital — as the rain-bearing system galloped across most of central and northwest India in a span of just four days after remaining standstill for nearly two weeks.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi signed a landmark strategic partnership agreement following their decision earlier this year to elevate ties, and after a bilateral meeting that saw discussions on G20 cooperation, food and energy security, climate change and the need for concerted efforts by the Global South to deal with such issues.
A mob burned down a warehouse and a farmhouse of Manipur cabinet minister L Susindro at Kangla Sangomsang in Imphal East district Friday night, two weeks after he hung a drop box outside his home for people to anonymously drop weapons looted from police in the ethnic violence that began on May 3 and left more than 100 people dead. Another arson attack was reported from Ishirou near the Sajiwa jail in the district where a mob torched a BJP office.
India will kick off the formal acquisition process for the 31 topnotch weaponised MQ9B drones from the US early next month, with the aim being to ink the actual contract within this fiscal and complete induction of all the remotely piloted aircraft systems in phases over the next six to seven years.
PM Narendra Modi landed in Cairo Saturday for the first bilateral visit to Egypt by any Indian PM since 1997, looking to bolster the strategic partnership the 2 countries announced during President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s visit to India in January this year with focus on enhancing defence ties, counterterrorism cooperation and efforts to deal with radicalisation and extremism.
Leaders of at least 15 opposition parties at the Centre will kickstart the effort to give concrete shape to the ambition of engaging the BJP in direct fights with “secular” candidates in more than 400 Lok Sabha constituencies with a discussion on a potential common minimum programme (CMP) and aroadmap for the formation of abroad-based front.
Environment is an article of faith for India and we do not believe in the exploitation of nature, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a joint press conference with President Joe Biden on Thursday.
An eight-year-old boy and two teenagers were gravely wounded in an IED explosion near a culvert in Manipur's Bishnupur district on Wednesday evening, while miscreants fired indiscriminately in at least two villages in Kangpokpi district around the same time as violence returned to the embattled state after a lull of four days.
The already expansive defence relationship between India and the US is set to register a quantum leap during the Modi-Biden summit with the twin pacts on the joint manufacture of GE-F414 fighter jet engines and the sale of armed MQ-9B Predator drones, both a first for a non-military ally of the US.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has convened an all-party meeting on June 24 in New Delhi to discuss the situation in Manipur which has witnessed sporadic violence since May 3.
Overriding repeated pleas by India to rise above political differences and address the issue of terrorism, China Tuesday formally blocked a proposal at the UNSC for designating LeT commander and 26/11 accused Sajid Mir as global terrorist. The move seemed timed deliberately with Modi’s first state visit to the US and came hours before he landed in New York to lead the International Day of Yoga celebrations at the UN.
Designated terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a known anti-India face who was head of pro-Khalistan outfits Khalistan Tiger Force and the Canadian arm of Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), was shot dead by unknown assailants at a parking lot of a gurdwara in Surrey, Canada, on Monday.
Three people were killed in landslides and one was swept away by floodwaters and is feared dead in Assam and Meghalaya in the last 24 hours even as the number of people affected by the deluge in Assam crossed 37,500 on Saturday evening.
The role of a father defines 37-year-old Pritesh Dave of Surat, who became a single parent of twins — a boy and a girl — early last year through surrogacy after his search for a bride always ended in rejection because he did not have a government job.
Armed mobs vandalised a BJP mandal office late Friday in Imphal and burned down a house at another locality in the city Saturday morning, while Army and Rapid Action Force (RAF) foiled several attempts to set afire BJP offices and houses of the party’s Manipur chief and a state minister.
Ahead of the June 23 opposition meet in Patna, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Friday said Congress should not expect any help in the Lok Sabha polls in her state as long as it allied with CPM.