Russia on Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for surpassing Jawaharlal Nehru’s record to become India’s longest-serving elected Prime Minister.Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that 250 million people had been pulled out of poverty during his rule.“During the rule of Modi, 250 million people have been pulled out of poverty,” Kremlin spokesman Peskov told reporters….
Trump warned that Iranwould “have to pay the price” as negotiations took “too long”. Madhya Pradesh has withdrawn a proposed two-child norm for government jobs, reversing a long-standing eligibility restriction. Families of Air India AI171 crash victims are questioning compensation settlement terms before the official investigation is complete. An Indian-origin police officer was killed while…
SRINAGAR: Hurriyat Conference chairman and Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Wednesday described the situation in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK), where more than 20 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters, as “deeply disturbing”, and urged the authorities there to show restraint.2 soldiers killed in ‘accidental blast’ near LoC in Uri2 soldiers…
The government condemned a US attack on a commercial vessel off the coast of Oman on Wednesday that left 3 Indian crew members missing, while also officially lodging a protest with the US embassy here. There were 24 Indian seafarers onboard the Palau-flagged Settebello, which was struck by precision munitions while transiting the Gulf of…
NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday denied that there was any proposal or discussion about the Mamata Banerjee led party merging with the Congress at a meeting between leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday.The meeting between Rahul and Abhishek at 10, Janpath came a day after…
SRINAGAR: Two soldiers attached to a unit deployed in J&K’s Uri sector, close to the LoC and about 100km north of Srinagar, were fatally wounded Tuesday afternoon in what the Army described as “an accidental blast”.Arjun Jadhav and Vikram Balakrishna, both from Maharashtra, were taken to the Army’s 92 Base Hospital in Srinagar but couldn’t…
Every harvest season, the outcomes are dreaded. Tomatoes get mushy, leafy vegetables go limp within hours of being cut. In Northeast India, most agricultural yields never make it to urban markets, the reason isn’t a lack of produce or demand, but because refrigerated vehicles are the only option, and their fuel and transit costs make…
NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for becoming the longest serving elected Prime Minister of India. In a Truth Social post, Trump said that PM Modi is “strong, healthy and wise man” and will have many years of “greatness and success” ahead of him. “Congratulations to my friend,…
NEW DELHI: A day after Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination for the Rajya Sabha was rejected, the Congress is set to file a petition on the Election Commission’s portal on Wednesday.In the event of no response from the poll panel, the party is preparing to move the Supreme Court challenging the decision, news agency ANI reported, citing…
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Wednesday met Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi and leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi at Sonia’s 10 Janpath residence in the national capital.Two Congress legislators were recently inducted into the Vijay-led council of ministers. With the move, the party became part…
