US Warns China Over Pressure On Taiwan Ahead Of Biden-Xi Summit
The United States has warned China over its pressure on Taiwan, the State Department said Saturday as the two powers gird for a hotly awaited summit. | Read more|
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Punjab BJP Leaders To Meet PM Today, Likely To Discuss Assembly Polls
Ahead of the 2022 assembly polls, Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 11 am in Delhi on Sunday, informed the party sources. | Read more|
CBI, Enforcement Directorate Chiefs' Tenures Extended Up To 5 Years
The government has brought an ordinance to extend the tenure of the CBI and Enforcement Directorate chiefs to up to five years. The chiefs of the central agencies currently have a two-year tenure. | Read more|
Colonel, His Wife And Son Among 7 Dead In Ambush By Terrorists In Manipur
An Indian Army Colonel, his wife and son, and four soldiers were killed in an ambush by terrorists near the border with Myanmar in Manipur. The terror attack - one of the deadliest in the region in recent times - took place at 10 am in Manipur's Churachandpur district, sources have said. | Read more|
"2-Day Lockdown?": Supreme Court Asks Centre For Delhi Air Emergency Plan
With Delhi and nearby cities blanketed in smog for over a week now, the Supreme Court today told the central government to prioritise an emergency plan over long-term measures as Chief Justice NV Ramana said, "You see how bad the situation is....even in our houses, we are wearing masks." | Read more|
4 Maoists Killed In Encounter In Maharashtra's Gadchiroli Forest: Police
At least four Maoists were killed in an encounter with the police on Saturday in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, a senior official said. | Read more|
Russia Sees US, NATO Black Sea Drills As "Serious Challenge": Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired Saturday that Moscow considered recent Black Sea exercises by US and other NATO ships as a serious challenge. | Read more|
In Akhilesh Yadav Turf, Amit Shah's Endorsement For Yogi Adityanath
Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today addressed a rally in Azamgarh - rival Akhilesh Yadav's turf - where they launched a relentless attack on the Samajwadi Party chief. The Chief Minister, who has been criticised in the past over his renaming spree, even suggested a name change | Read more|
Trinamool Congress nominates ex-Goa CM Luizinho Faleiro to Rajya Sabha
Former chief minister of Goa and newly appointed national vice-president of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) Luizinho Faleiro was nominated to the Rajya Sabha by the party on Saturday. | Read more|
Will favourably consider: Pakistan PM Imran Khan on wheat from India to Kabul
More than a month after India reached out to Pakistan for sending food grains to Afghanistan through the land route, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday told a Taliban delegation in Islamabad that his country would “favourably consider” a request by “Afghan brothers” for transportation of wheat from India | Read more|
Kangana Ranaut plays defiant card, asks which war took place in 1947
Under attack for describing India’s Independence as “bheek”, a combative Kangana Ranaut on Saturday asked which war took place in 1947 and said she would return her Padma Shri and apologise too if anyone could answer her question. | Read more|
Sachin Pilot meets Sonia Gandhi amid Cabinet reshuffle buzz in Rajasthan
Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Friday met party chief Sonia Gandhi amid speculation over Cabinet reshuffle and organisation rejig in Rajasthan. His meeting came a day after Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot met Gandhi here and the two leaders are learnt to have discussed the political situation as well as the impe | Read more|
Protesters Block Namaz Again In Gurgaon: 'Will Build Volleyball Court'
Opposition to namaz at open spaces in Haryana's Gurgaon reared its ugly head again today, after members reportedly affiliated with Hindu groups occupied a site in Sector 12A to stop Muslims from praying. Visuals from the site showed people sitting around - they assembled in the morning and claimed to be making a volle | Read more|
On Lakhimpur Farmers' Killing, Supreme Court Gives UP A Monday Deadline
The Supreme Court on Friday granted time till November 15 to the Uttar Pradesh government for apprising its stand on the suggestion that a former judge of a "different high court" should monitor the state SIT probe on day-to-day basis in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in which eight people including four farmers were kil | Read more|
Two Bangladeshis killed during cattle smuggling in Coochbehar border
Two Bangladeshis were shot dead at the Indo-Bangla border in West Bengal’s Coochbehar district in the early hours of Friday after they attacked a BSF patrol party that stopped them from smuggling cattle, a senior official of the force said. | Read more|
Money laundering case: Anil Deshmukh in ED custody till November 15
A PMLA court Friday sent former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh to further ED custody till November 15. Deshmukh was arrested on November 1 in a money laundering case. | Read more|
A US Move To End Work Gaps For Spouses Of H-1B Visa Holders
In yet another immigration-friendly move, the Biden administration has agreed to provide automatic work authorisation permits to spouses of H-1B visas holders, a step that would benefit thousands of Indian-American women. The settlement in this regard was reached by the Department of Homeland Security in a class-action | Read more|
"Arrest Kangana Ranaut, Withdraw Padma Shri": Opposition Amid 'Azadi' Row
Actor Kangana Ranaut's Padma Shri should be withdrawn and she should be charged with sedition, several political parties have said in a snowballing controversy over her comment that India won true independence in 2014 - when Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power - and the 1947 Independence was "bheekh" or charity. | Read more|
COP26 Final Draft Statement Urges Curbs On Coal, Fossil Fuel Subsidies
A draft final statement of the COP26 summit Friday called for nations to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels, as two weeks of crunch climate negotiations approach their conclusion. | Read more|
COP26: Cautious welcome for unexpected US-China climate agreement
Activists and politicians have cautiously welcomed an unexpected US-China declaration that vowed to boost climate co-operation. The EU and UN described the move as encouraging and an important step, but Greenpeace said both countries needed to show more commitment. | Read more|
Deployed Nearly 3000 Police Officers In 24 UN Peacekeeping Operations: India
India has paid tribute to all women and men peacekeepers, including the 14 police officers who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty, said the country's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, R Ravindra. | Read more|
BJP Devendra Fadnavis Gets ₹ 5 Crore Defamation Notice Over Drugs Row
Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik's son-in-law Sameer Khan has sent a legal notice to the former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for levelling "defamatory" and "false allegations" against him. According to the copy of the legal notice, shared on Twitter by Nawab Malik, Sameer Khan also demanded ₹ 5 crore on account o | Read more|
Game-Changing Made-In-India Anti-Covid Pills Could Be Cleared For Use In Days
Emergency Use Authorisation for the Merck drug Molnupiravir -- an oral antiviral medicine for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 -- is likely "within days", Dr Ram Vishwakarma, Chairman of the Covid Strategy Group, CSIR, told NDTV on Wednesday. The medicine is meant for adults who are at risk for progressing to | Read more|
Supreme Court To Hear Future Group, Amazon Pleas Over Reliance Deal
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Future Group's plea against the Delhi High Court's refusal to stay a Singapore tribunal order that froze the ₹ 24,731 crore transaction with Reliance Retail. | Read more|
Lakhimpur-like incident in Punjab: farmers; SAD says its vehicle attacked
It was farmers versus Akali Dal in Ferozepur Wednesday as former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal visited the constituency for campaigning. While SAD accused farmers of attacking and damaging a party SUV, a purported video of the incident showed two protesters sitting on a bonnet of car in Akali Dal convoy as the ve | Read more|
Supreme Court To Hear Plea Of Journalist To Nix Tripura Anti-Terror Case
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea by journalist Shyam Meera Singh and two others that seeks to quash a Tripura Police FIR under controversial anti-terror law UAPA for social media posts - including Mr Singh's "Tripura is burning" tweet - made during violence in the state last month. | Read more|
Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot meet top Congress leaders in Delhi
The Congress high command on Wednesday is learnt to have nudged Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to carry out a long pending expansion and reshuffle of his Cabinet and include some of Sachin Pilot’s loyalists. Both Gehlot and Pilot met senior Congress leaders in Delhi. | Read more|
Xi Jinping Says China Is Ready To Work With US To Manage Differences
China is ready to properly manage differences with the United States, President Xi Jinping has said, ahead of a virtual meeting with US. | Read more|
Court Rejects CBI Challenge For Inspection Of Documents In INX Media Case
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)'s challenge to a trial court order allowing inspection of documents by Congress leader , son Karti Chidambaram and other accused in the INX media case. | Read more|
3 staff memos flagged ‘polarising’ content, hate speech in India but Facebook said not a problem
FROM a “constant barrage of polarising nationalistic content”, to “fake or inauthentic” messaging, from “misinformation” to content “denigrating” minority communities, several red flags concerning its operations in India were raised internally in Facebook between 2018 and 2020. | Read more|
UP Man Dies In Police Station, Family Suspects Cops' Role; 5 Suspended
Five policemen have been suspended in Uttar Pradesh's Etah district, 270 km west of state capital Lucknow, after a 22-year-old man allegedly killed himself at a police station on Tuesday. | Read more|
Nepal Army chief arrives, his colleague flags India-China rift
As Nepal Army chief General Prabhu Ram Sharma began a four-day visit to India Tuesday, its spokesperson said “Nepal is struggling against the headwind created by growing fissures in the India-China relationship, opening way for a realignment of the traditional strategic orientation” and “the bilateral relationshi | Read more|
Upset over farm laws impasse, farmer allegedly kills himself at Singhu border
The body of a 45-year-old farmer was found hanging from a tree near a mall at the farmers’ protest site at Singhu border on Wednesday morning. The police said preliminary reports suggest the farmer allegedly died by suicide, adding that inquest proceedings under section 174 of CrPC have been initiated. | Read more|
Nawab Malik Drops "Hydrogen Bomb", Attacks Fadnavis Over Underworld Links
Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik dropped his "hydrogen bomb" on Wednesday morning - the latest in an exchange of swipes with former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis that began with the arrest of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan in the drugs-on-cruise case. | Read more|
Afghan Matters Have "Implications For Region": India At Security Dialogue
The recent developments in Afghanistan have important implications not only for the people of that country but also for its neighbours and the region, National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval said on Wednesday at an eight-nation dialogue hosted by India on the Afghan crisis. | Read more|