Sabarimala row: Police on high alert, 1500 cops, commando team deployed ahead of temple opening on November 5
SABARIMALA: With the Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala set to open for monthly poojas on November 5, the police is on high alert and tight security arrangements are in place in the backdrop of violent protests over entry of women of menstrual age last month. According to a Kerala police release, 1,500 personnel, 100 of them women, […]
PM Modi on two-day visit to Japan, holds informal talks with Shinzo Abe
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Tokyo late Saturday night for his two-day visit to Japan for the 13th India-Japan annual summit. The two countries are expected to engage on a range of issues including defence and regional security. On his first day, PM Modi was hosted by his Japenese counterpart Shinzo Abe at his holiday villa near […]
Modi’s diagnoses was often right, prescription wrong: Shashi Tharoor
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said Narendra Modi could have succeeded as prime minister because he often got his diagnosis right but “failed” on account of poor prescriptions. It is time for Modi to go, he said, highlighting a range of contradictions in the prime minister’s style of working over the last four and a half years. Click […]
Mohan Bhagwat wants law to build Ram Mandir in Ayodhya
By Abhiram Ghadyalpatil NAGPUR: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday said the government should pass a law to authorise the building of a Ram Mandir in Ayodhya rather than “test the patience of the society”, while endorsing the government led by Narendra Modi. Bhagwat made the remarks, aimed at the next general election, at the […]
Amritsar tragedy: Eyewitnesses, locals rubbish train driver’s claims of being pelted with stones
NEW DELHI/AMRITSAR: Locals on Sunday came out hard against the statement of the driver, who has said that the Dussehra revellers at the spot of the accident had pelted stones at the train. In a statement given to police as well as the railway authorities, the driver of the train, which mowed down 59 people […]
MJ Akbar hints political vendetta: Charges false, will take action; why this storm before elections, asks Union minister
NEW DELHI: Facing allegations of sexual harassment, Union Minister MJ Akbar on Sunday said that making accusations without evidence has become a viral fever among some sections. Denying all accusations against him as baseless, the senior journalist-turned-minister said he will take legal action. “Accusation without evidence has become a viral fever among some sections. Whatever be […]
Runway repairs may delay flights from Mumbai, Delhi
MUMBAI: Several flights to and from Mumbai and Delhi airports are expected to be rescheduled or cancelled later this year, when runways at India’s busiest airports are scheduled to be closed for maintenance work. More than 250 flights per day are expected to be affected at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA), which sees about 46 arrivals […]
Going extra lengths to find substitute for Iranian oil for countries like India: White House
WASHINGTON: The US is going extra lengths to find substitute for Iranian oil for countries like India and Iraq, the White House has said, as the Trump administration prepares to impose sanctions on nations defying its directive to bring their oil imports from the Gulf nation to zero by November 4. US National Security Advisor […]
Defying US, India inks $5 bn deal with Russia
NEW DELHI: India and Russia are exploring the option of trading in their local currencies and looking at signing agreements on investment protection and avoidance of double taxation, Russia’s minister for economic development Maxim Oreshkin said on Friday. The commerce ministry is considering the feasibility of a renminbi-rupee trade with China in order to tackle the […]
Apple executive killed despite being Hindu, says Kejriwal; widow asks not to give the case religious twist
NEW DELHI: Giving a religious twist to the Apple executive death case in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that Vivek Tiwari was killed despite being a Hindu, even as the deceased’s wife asked legislators not to play politics over her husband’s death. Kejriwal asked the people not to be blindfolded by BJP’s rhetoric, claiming that […]
Pakistan rakes up RSS, Yogi Adityanath, NRC to attack India at UN
NEW DELHI: A day after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj sharply criticised Islamabad over its sponsorship of cross-border terrorism, Pakistan’s envoy to the United Nations Saad Warraich on Sunday trained guns at RSS and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to allege that there was no room for dissent in “illiberal India of today”. Exercising […]
Maldives’ opposition presidential candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih claims victory
Opposition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih declared victory early Monday in the Maldives’ contentious presidential election widely seen as a referendum on the island nation’s young democracy. The win was unexpected, and Solih’s supporters flooded the streets, hugging one another, waving the Maldivian flag, cheering and honking horns in celebration. The opposition had feared the election […]
Rafale controversy: Francois Hollande doing no service to country, says French official
By Sushant Singh Responding to remarks by former French president Francois Hollande that the Indian government had “proposed” Anil Ambani’s Reliance Defence as the offset partner for Dassault Aviation in the Rafale aircraft deal, the French Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, said Sunday that Hollande’s statements “render no service to France”. Significantly, Lemoyne, […]
Mayawati’s condition for Mahagathbandhan: Give ‘respectable’ share of seats or will go alone
NEW DELHI: At a time when the opposition parties are strongly working on modalities for a Mahagathbandhan to throw BJP out of power, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday made it clear that her party will be compelled to go alone if it does not get a “respectable” number of seats in the anti-BJP alliance. “Our party […]
Modi govt to impose restrictions on non-essential imports to check rising current account deficit, falling rupee
NEW DELHI: In the wake of the latest rupee depreciation, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday held a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi where they took ‘stock of the economy’. The issue of expanding Current Account Deficit (CAD) was discussed and the government has decided to take necessary steps to impose restrictions on non-essential imports. Jaitley confirmed that RBI […]
Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: Tamil Nadu cabinet decides to recommend release of all seven convicts
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu cabinet on Sunday decided to recommend the release of all seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to the governor under Article 161 of the Constitution. After the cabinet meeting headed by chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami that lasted two hours, fisheries minister D Jayakumar announced that the cabinet recommendation for the release of […]
‘Ajay Bharat, Atal BJP’: PM sets tone for 2019 polls at BJP meet
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday gave a clarion call to BJP workers with the slogan “Ajay Bharat, Atal BJP ” and targeted the opposition’s “opportunistic efforts” to form a “mahagathbandhan” at the party’s national executive meeting in New Delhi. Giving the slogan of ‘Ajay Bharat, Atal Bhajapa’ (Invincible India, firm BJP), Modi exuded confidence that […]
Congress as party not involved in 1984 riots; Rahul Gandhi in school when Blue Star happened: Amarinder Singh
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday came out in support of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, saying that the Gandhi scion could not be responsible for something he wasn’t even aware of. Even as the knives were out for Gandhi following his remarks at an event in the […]
PM Modi sends out strong message against rape: Won’t tolerate injustice towards women
NEW DELHI: Delivering a strong message against the incidents of rape, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the country will not tolerate such heinous crimes and assured that the recently-passed Criminal Act Amendment Bill will play an effective role in crimes against women. While addressing the citizens during his monthly ‘Mann ki Baat’ radio programme, Modi said, […]
India’s forgotten magical history
By Manu S. Pillai Sometime in the last decade—when I was still in school and the world was less hysterical—I happened to meet a “sun yogi”. He was a fascinating man, swathed in white, with a long beard and an enviable figure. His face beamed, more or less on a permanent basis, and he endured cheerfully my stabs […]
