'Zindagi ke saath bhi, zindagi ke baad bhi': PM Modi hits out at Congress New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday sharpened his attack on the Congress party as India goes to poll for the second phase in the general elections, over what he described as its “dangerous intentions”, citing Sam Pitroda’s comments on an...
New Delhi: Ambassador Eric Garcetti has said that climate action and green energy are some of the biggest pillars of the US-India alliance. In an interview to local media in India, the U.S. ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti said, If you told somebody 20 years ago that Indian companies would be creating jobs in...
New Delhi: With military expenditure worth $83.6 billion in 2023, India was the fourth largest spender globally in 2023, the latest report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) states. This was a result of growing personnel and operations costs that comprised about 80 per cent of the total military budget, the report said. The...
New Delhi: Asserting that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is “patently discriminatory”, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said his party’s position is that it must go and be replaced by a law of asylum which is consistent with international treaties to which India is a party. His remarks came in response to Home Minister Amit...
New Delhi: The non-profit organization Common Cause and Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) have jointly moved a petition in the Supreme Court, demanding a probe by a special investigation team (SIT) under judicial supervision into an alleged scam in electoral financing using electoral bonds (EBs), which was scrapped by the top court on...
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court against jailed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's plea challenging his arrest in the alleged money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped liquor policy case. In the affidavit, the probe agency claimed that the Chief Minister was arrested following "large-scale" tampering of evidence, including the...
Thiruvananthapuram: NRI's from Kerala, a majority of whom are presently based in the Gulf nations, returned home in large numbers to cast their votes in April 26 Lok Sabha elections in the state. More than 22,000 NRI's have already arrived in Kerala in the past two days to exercise their franchise in the high-voltage...
Patna: A youth leader from Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United (JDU) was shot dead on April 24 when he was returning from a wedding function in Patna, said police. In the firing that ensued late at night, another person accompanying Saurabh Kumar, identified as Munmun, was hit thrice and sustained injuries. The JD(U) leader was reportedly...
New Delhi: As many as 89 constituencies, spread across 13 states and Union Territories (UTs), voted in Phase 2 of the general elections on April 26. The second phase witnessed a tough fight between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc. Some of the key candidates contesting...
