New Delhi, 19/9: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said his government is committed to ensuring that the ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam’ aimed at expanding women’s participation in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies becomes a law, as he urged MPs of both Houses to pass the bill unanimously. In the first speech in the…
Anantnag, 19/9: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Uzair Khan and his associate were killed on Tuesday in one of Jammu and Kashmir’s longest anti-militancy operations that claimed the lives of three officers and a soldier in the Gadole forest area of southern Anantnag . The body of Uzair Khan was retrieved from the encounter site while another…
New Delhi, 19/9: India said on Tuesday it had expelled a Canadian diplomat with five days’ notice to leave the country, just hours after Ottawa expelled the South Asian nation’s top intelligence agent and accused it of a role in the murder of a Sikh separatist leader. The development was the latest in an escalating…
New Delhi, 19/7: KL Rahul will be seen leading the Indian unit in the first two ODIs against Australia, which gets underway from September 22. Meanwhile, R Ashwin returns to the ODI set-up and will be with the team for all the three encounters. Senior pros Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have been rested for…
Canada, 19/7: Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between Indian government agents and the murder of a Sikh leader in British Columbia in June, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday. “Canada has declared its deep concerns to the top intelligence and security officials of the Indian government,”…
New Delhi, 18/7: India’s Aditya-L1 solar mission spacecraft has commenced collecting data that will help scientists analyse the behaviour of particles surrounding Earth, ISRO said on Monday. The sensors of an instrument on board India’s first solar observatory have begun measuring supra-thermal and energetic ions and electrons at distances greater than 50,000 km from Earth,…
New Delhi, ,18/9: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Sanjay Singh have moved the Gujarat High Court against the sessions court’s order refusing to quash the summons issued against them in a criminal defamation case over their comments on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s educational qualification. Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal and Rajya Sabha member…
Anantnag, 18/7: The operation to flush out terrorists holed up in the Gadole forest area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district entered the sixth day on Monday with security forces using drones to pinpoint the hideouts for carrying out attacks on the militants The Union Territory’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has vowed to avenge the…
New Delhi, ,18/9: The Supreme Court on Monday relieved the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, saying it has already completed its probe and submitted a charge sheet in the trial court. The case pertains to the incident of violence on October 3, 2021, in which eight people, including four farmers,…
Chennai, 18/9: Strains between the AIADMK and BJP seemed to have reached a flashpoint on Monday when a senior leader of the Dravidian party said there was no alliance with the saffron organisation and that any decision on a poll pact will be decided only during the election. Senior AIADMK leader D Jayakumar, lashing out…
