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New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders across party lines on Monday hailed the launch of India’s second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 from the spaceport in Sriharikota. These leaders also congratulated the ISRO scientists and engineers for the “historic launch”, and said it was a proud moment […]

Washington/London: “India is on its way to the moon,” a leading US newspaper wrote on Monday as the country successfully launched its second lunar mission to explore the moon’s uncharted south pole by landing a rover there. The country’s most powerful rocket “GSLV-Mk-III” carrying the orbiter, lander Vikram and rover Pragyaan took off from the […]

New Delhi: Lok Sabha on Monday passed the bill amending the Right To Information Act, amid objections by the Opposition which alleged that it was an attempt to undermine the law and make the transparency panel a “toothless tiger”. The Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2019, seeks to give the government powers to fix salaries, […]

New Delhi: “It’s just bombs all over the place” – US President Donald Trump’s vision of Jammu and Kashmir, as if it were another Syria, evoked derision on social media on Tuesday, with Twitterati slamming his comments. One Twitter user posted: “And the way Trump describes Kashmir; ‘bomb blasts here and there, every day, in […]

Washington: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said his country would be willing to give up its nuclear weapons if India did the same. In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Khan, who had earlier met US President Donald Trump, was asked how Pakistan would respond if India said it was giving up its […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday treated his Instagram followers with pictures of him playing with a toddler in his arms. The picture went viral in seconds and received as many as 13 lakh likes and over 16,000 comments. Modi uploaded two photos of the toddler — the first showing Modi more as […]

Washington: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said that he was surprised by India’s reaction to US President Donald Trump’s offer of mediation to bring Islamabad and New Delhi to dialogue table for resolving Kashmir conflict. “Surprised by India’s reaction to President Trump’s offer of mediation to bring Pak and India to dialogue table […]

New Delhi: Celebrities including Anurag Kashyap, Aparna Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mani Ratnam and Konkona Sen Sharma, have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing their concerns over the growing the cases of lynching in India. As many as 49 celebrities from different backgrounds have joined forces to address the issue and come […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said a modern museum displaying the lives and belongings of all former Prime Ministers will be opened soon. The Prime Minister’s announcement came at a book release event. The book ‘Chandra Shekhar – The Last Icon of Ideological Politics’ is written by Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh […]

London: Boris Johnson officially became Britain’s new Prime Minister on Wednesday and promised to leave the European Union on October 31 “no ifs, no buts” under a “new deal” with the 28-member economic bloc. The 55-year-old former foreign secretary and London Mayor met Queen Elizabeth II, who asked him to form a new administration, Buckingham […]

New Delhi: Former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who was leading efforts during her term to get consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav who is lodged in a Pakistani jail, on Thursday met the family of the former naval officer. “Kulbhushan Jadhav’s family came to see me today. I wish them all the best,” she tweeted […]

New Delhi: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) wants the Finance Ministry to re-look the idea of issuing foreign currency overseas sovereign bonds and critically examine issues raised by former bankers and economists before taking any call on implementing the budget proposal. The PMO has asked the ministry to seek more consultation from stake-holders before proceeding […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday chaired a meeting with top officials to review the Covid-19 situation in the country and was given an overview relating to oxygen…

New Delhi: Slamming Pakistan for indulging in deceit since 1947, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the Kargil war of 1999 had changed the world’s perception about India, which took military action to evict the Pakistani Army and foiled the neighbour’s attempt to redraw the boundary. Addressing a gathering to commemorate the 20th anniversary […]

New Delhi: Leaders across the political spectrum paid rich tributes to Congress veteran S Jaipal Reddy, who died in the early hours of Sunday at the age of 77, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi remembering him as an effective administrator and his predecessor Manmohan Singh hailing him as a treasure of wisdom and knowledge. Former […]