Narendra Modi’s reforms meet realpolitik in Uttar Pradesh polls
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to clean up politics. The man running the ruling party’s campaign in a crucial state election, who is facing 11 criminal cases, says it will take a while. “At a time of elections, one has to forget every other aspect and just focus on victory,” said Keshav Prasad Maurya, […]
Political parties have united against me because I have been tightening screws, says PM Modi
Launching a fresh attack on the Opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that his strict action against corruption has angered other political parties. “Parties are angry with me as I am tightening screws on wrong doers,” said Modi at a BJP rally in Aligarh, days ahead of the first phase of elections in […]
I hope Trump bans Pakistani visas: Imran Khan
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday, while condemning the plight of Muslims prevented from entering the United States (US) under US President Donald Trump’s immigration ban, expressed hope that the ban is extended to Pakistanis. “I want to tell all Pakistanis today, I pray that Trump bans Pakistani visas so that we can […]
How ‘Garden City’ Bengaluru has degenerated into a garbage city
BANGALORE: The stench of rubbish hanging over swathes of Bangalore is so powerful it rouses residents in the middle of the night, the fetid result of a trash crisis that threatens its reputation as one of India’s nicest places to live. Hailed first as the country’s Garden City and then its Silicon Valley, drawing in […]
A school for grannies is making dreams come true in Maharashtra
Aajibaichi Shala is a school for grandmothers in Thane district, Maharashtra. Dressed in bright pink saris, the grannies all sit together in a single classroom and learn to write, read and multiply, all in Marathi. Click here to read more… Credit: hindustantimes.com
Goodwill hunting: Can SP-Cong alliance capitalise Akhilesh’s vote base in the UP election
UP 2017 is a difficult election to read because there is no ‘hawa’, a uniquely Indian political term that does not lend itself to an easy translation. At the end of December and the first three weeks of January, it appeared that Akhilesh Yadav was extraordinarily popular and would be able to generate a hawa […]
Pakistan pumps diluted heroin into Punjab, triggers fear
CHANDIGARH: The potency of heroin being pushed into Punjab through the border with Pakistan has fallen from 43% in 2014 to nearly one-fourth or around 12% in 2016. This may seem like good news initially, but experts and activists dealing with the drug problem in the state are disturbed. Smugglers will dilute heroin only if […]
Relief from demonetisation: People may get another chance to deposit old notes in banks
The Reserve Bank of India may allow citizens another chance to deposit the scrapped Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 banknotes but the exchange would be for a limited sum, sources in the government and banking sector said on Wednesday. The central bank has been flooded with queries and requests from people who failed to deposit […]
India A ‘True Friend’, Says Donald Trump In Call With PM Narendra Modi, Invites Him To US
NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the United States later this year, during a phone call on Tuesday, four days after the Republican President took oath as the 45th President of the US. The leaders discussed economic and defence co-operations and regional security issues, the White House said […]
Barack Obama calls Narendra Modi, PM thanks him for boosting strategic ties
NEW DELHI: Just ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the President of the United States, President Barack Obama called up Prime Minister Narendra Modi to review “all round progress” in the relations between US and India. As he wished the outgoing US President well for his future endeavours, Modi thanked Obama for strengthening the strategic […]
Kashmir an ‘unfinished agenda’ of partition: Raheel Sharif
Asked whether peace and economic prosperity could be achieved in South Asia without the resolution of Kashmir dispute, Raheel was quoted by the Express Tribune as saying, “There are three words to explain how to move forward and these are Kashmir, Kashmir and Kashmir.” Raheel termed Kashmir as the “unfinished agenda” of the partition, saying […]
Jallikattu protests continue to rock TN; AR Rahman, Rajinikanth show support
Top Tamil Nadu celebrities Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, AR Rahman and Viswanathan Anand came out in support of Jallikattu on Thursday, as protests against a court ban on the traditional and popular bull-taming sport continued to rock the southern state. Oscar-winning music composer Rahman tweeted he would fast on Friday to “support the spirit” of […]
Demonetisation: Urjit Patel faces tough questions from parliamentary panel
New Delhi: RBI governor Urjit Patel on Wednesday faced some tough questions from the parliamentary panel as he could not set a time frame for return of normalcy in the banking system even as the central bank asserted that Rs9.2 lakh crore or 60% of demonetised currency has been replaced. Patel also could not give […]
PIOs, NRIs feel heat of demonetisation; wait in RBI queues
NEW DELHI: After residents, NRIs and People of India Origin (PIO) are now braving long queues to exchange the old Rs 500/1000 notes at 5 designated RBI branches across the country but because of stringent conditions several of them have had to return disappointed. Tempers ran high outside the central bank branches as people coming […]
Pakistan successfully test-fires first submarine-launched cruise missile: ISPR
The range of the missile is 450 kilometres, the DG ISPR said. Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa congratulated the team behind the launch and the nation on the development, Maj Gen Ghafoor said. The missile was launched from an undisclosed location in the Indian Ocean, Radio Pakistan reported. Click here to read […]
Mamata Banerjee says demonetisation brought people to ‘brink of disaster’
Kolkata/New Delhi: Two months after the demonetisation move, the Narendra Modi government is still in the crosshairs of the opposition with West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee saying people were on the “brink of disaster” and urged President Pranab Mukherjee to intervene while former prime minister Manmohan Singh asserted it will adversely affect India’s gross […]
PM Modi: Worshippers of black money portraying note ban as anti-people
Some “worshippers of black money” were projecting the November 8 demonetisation exercise carried out by the Indian government as anti-people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told over 6,000 delegates from the Indian diaspora at the inauguration of the 14th edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas on Sunday. “Friends, after coming here you may have heard about […]
AIADMK chorus for Sasikala as Tamil Nadu chief minister grows louder
Chennai: The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) looks set to install its new general secretary V.K. Sasikala as the Tamil Nadu chief minister, a series of developments in the last few weeks pointing to an imminent shift in administrative power. Sasikala, a close friend and confidante of J. Jayalalithaa, took charge as general […]
Narendra Modi: The man who would purify India
Perhaps the most important part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on New Year’s Eve was not the niggardly sops announced, not the lack of a report card on demonetisation, although that was significant, but rather his framing of demonetisation as a campaign to purify India. “Our nation has been witness to a historic rite […]
Akhilesh-Mulayam Discuss Peace Treaty At Long Meeting
NEW DELHI: Akhilesh Yadav and estranged father Mulayam Singh Yadav are making a renewed effort at a truce to keep their Samajwadi Party from cracking in two just ahead of the election in Uttar Pradesh. After a meeting that expanded beyond two hours, sources said a peace treaty was discussed with these compromises: Mulayam Singh, […]
