Srinagar: Gandhi family scion Priyanka Gandhi Vadra formally entered politics on Wednesday with the Congress appointing her general secretary for Uttar Pradesh East, ending years of speculation and signalling the party’s intent to go full throttle in the state ahead of the general elections. Priyanka Gandhi, 47, will take over her new assignment in the […]
Srinagar: Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday signed a USD 3 billion bailout package, as part of Abu Dhabi’s support to boost the cash-strapped country’s dwindling dollar reserves. The UAE in December last year had announced to provide USD 3 billion financial assistance to Pakistan after Saudi Arabia made a similar commitment […]
Srinagar: At least 26 people were killed and over a dozen others injured after a collision between a fuel-laden truck and a passenger bus in the Hub area of Pakistan’s Balochistan, police said Tuesday. The accident took place in the Lasbela district near Hub when a bus, travelling to Panjgur from Karachi and carrying 40 […]
Srinagar: Prime Minister Imran Khan has been named among Foreign Policy magazine’s 2019 list of ‘Global Thinkers’. The short writeup on the premier states that Khan, “a former cricket star, finally got the job he had long coveted ─ prime minister”. “His reward was an incredibly difficult to-do list, starting with Pakistan’s looming fiscal and […]
Jammu: BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay foundations and inaugurate many developmental projects on February 3 in Jammu and Kashmir. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stones and inaugurate the developmental projects worth Rs 35 thousand crores during his upcoming visit to J&K […]
New Delhi: Former finance minister P Chidambaram rejected the ruling BJP’s claim of achieving the highest growth rate under the NDA government on Saturday, saying it was based on “bogus numbers” produced by the Niti Aayog. The senior Congress leader took to Twitter to say that these numbers were rejected by every economist and statistician […]
Srinagar: United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday hoped that India and Pakistan will engage in a “meaningful dialogue” to resolve their issues. The UN chief also said he has been offering his “good offices in relation to the dialogue between the two countries that, until now, had no conditions of success.” Guterres was […]
Srinagar: US special envoy on Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad Friday held talks with Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and discussed efforts to speed up the Afghan peace process by involving the Taliban. Khalilzad arrived in Islamabad on Thursday from Afghanistan and held delegation level talks with Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua and also met Army chief […]
New Delhi: The National Investigating Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted search operations in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, as part of a probe against ISIS-inspired militant group Harkut-ul-Harb-e-Islam allegedly operating in India. According to NIA, the raids were conducted in eight places including Rampur, Amroha, Bulandshahar, Meerut, Hapur and Ludhiana. The fresh raids comes five-day after […]
Srinagar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah has been admitted to All India Institute for Media Sciences (AIIMS) for treatment of swine flu.He took to social media on Wednesday to announce that he is being treated for swine flu. “I have been diagnosed with swine flu for which the treatment is underway. With God’s […]
