Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that he held a “good discussion” with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on many important issues, including on the “two nations’ commitment to democratic principles, recent protests, and the importance of resolving issues through dialogue”, a statement from t | Read more|
Day after Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced in Parliament that India and China have reached an agreement on disengagement in the North and South bank of Pangong lake in eastern Ladakh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at the government questioning why Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given up the count | Read more|
Union minister Dr Harsh Vardhan Thursday wrote to Chhattisgarh health minister TS Singh Deo, who has gone public with his concerns about Bharat Biotech's Covaxin. The primary concerns of the state are the inhibitions regarding the "incomplete third phase trials" of the vaccine and the "absence of expiration date on the | Read more|
US President Joe Biden said Thursday that his first phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping since taking office lasted two hours. "Last night, I was in the phone for two straight hours with Xi Jinping," Biden told reporters -- an unusually long interaction for a US president, with whom even face-to-face meetings rare | Read more|
A 25-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by four men following a quarrel at a birthday party in outer Delhi's Mangolpuri area, police said on Thursday. | Read more|
Lawyers for a human rights activist who has spent almost three years in prison for alleged plots to incite violence and eliminate Prime Minister Narendra Modi have given Bombay High Court a data forensics report that concludes evidence had been planted in his computer. | Read more|
The Centre has refused to offer any relief to the public from soaring petrol and diesel prices in the form of an excise duty relief. | Read more|
Amazon has approached the Supreme Court seeking to stop Future Group's $3.4 billion retail assets sale to Reliance Industries, days after the Delhi High Court revoked a previous single judge decision that effectively blocked the deal. The high court order was, however, an interim one and the next hearing is on February | Read more|
Explaining its stand on the blocking orders for certain handles from the Indian government, micro-blogging platform Twitter on Wednesday said it had now “withheld a portion of the accounts” identified by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) within India. Twitter said it had informed MeitY | Read more|
Speaking on the Union Budget, Congress leader Kapil Sibal Wednesday said while the NDA government accuses its predecessor UPA government of doing vote bank politics, they themselves have done the same in the budget this year by awarding infrastructure projects to the states which are going to polls this year. “The go | Read more|
The Enforcement Directorate has launched searches at NewsClick, a news portal that has been slapped with a Rs 100-crore defamation suit by the Adani group, and premises associated with its management since Tuesday morning. | Read more|
Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram today sought to wear "Andolanjeevi", a term pejoratively used in Parliament two days ago, as a compliment. Purportedly aimed at those irresistibly drawn to mass agitations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had used it on Monday in the context of the ongoing fa | Read more|
A DAY after Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Gen V K Singh (retd) said that India has transgressed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) more often than the Chinese side based on perceptions, contradicting India’s official position, Beijing Monday claimed that the former Army Chief’s remark was an “un | Read more|
Long before the floods came, washing away hundreds of people and wiping out newly constructed dams and bridges, the warning signs were clear. | Read more|
Tapping into the massive audience that tunes in to watch ‘Super Bowl Sunday’ in the US, members of the Sikh community in California aired a crowdfunded commercial to highlight the farmers’ protest in India. | Read more|