New Delhi: A P J Abdul Kalam could have returned as the president in 2012 with the backing of the BJP and the Trinamool Congress but with no support from the Congress and its allies, he pulled himself out of the race, a new book claims. Congress veteran Pranab Mukherjee was then chosen as the […]
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday conducted searches across 16 locations in Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi in connection with its probe into a new ISIS module, officials said. The new module is called ‘Harkat ul Harb e Islam’. “The searches are going on,” an NIA spokesperson said.
Srinagar:: Body of a teenage labourer from Baramulla district was recovered on Saturday, taking the death toll of Kashmiri labourers killed in Bansbada area in Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district to eight. On Friday, seven labourers from Baramulla district were killed while the body of Majid Khan (teenager) of Uri, Baramulla who was missing when a mountain portion caved-in […]
Dubai:The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will deposit 11 billion dirhams (3 billion US dollars) in the State Bank of Pakistan to help with the country’s cash and financial policies, state-run WAM news agency reported on Friday. The move aims “to enhance the liquidity and monetary reserve of the foreign currency in the State Bank,” WAM […]
Belagavi: As many as 1327 farmers have committed suicide in Karnataka since last two years and State government has paid compensation to the next to the kin of the deceased, Minister for Agriculture Shivashankara Reddy said in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday. During a debate on the severe drought conditions prevailed in the State, he […]
Srinagar: A journalist, who had criticised the BJP-led governments at the Centre and in Manipur on social media, has been sentenced to one year in detention by a local court, according to a statement issued by the state home department. The chief judicial magistrate of Imphal West district passed the order on December 14. The statement […]
New Delhi: Former Union minister P Chidambaram was Wednesday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the INX Media money laundering case, official sources said. He arrived at the agency’s office in Jamnagar House, near India Gate, at around 11:15 am along with his lawyer. This is the first time that the 73-year-old […]
Srinagar:The BBC talk show HardTalk is under heavy scrutiny after omitting crucial parts from two recent interviews where the senior advisor to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Professor Gulnur Aybet and Pakistan’s Finance Minister Asad Umar were guests on the show. A range of topics were discussed in the hard-hitting interview on Monday with President […]
New Delhi: Punjab Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Capt. Amarinder Singh on Tuesday urged Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to ‘stop’ actions by various anti-India forces in his country if he is ‘serious’ about peace with India and alleged that the ‘proposed Kartarpur Convention 2019’ of US-based Sikh for Justice (SFJ) is in effect an […]
Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan said Tuesday that Pakistan will do everything within its power to further the peace process in Afghanistan as talks sponsored by the country between the US and the Taliban were being held in the UAE to end the 17-year bloody conflict. The US and the Taliban have previously met on […]
