NEW DELHI: Leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi Sunday called PM Narendra Modi an “obedient servant” of foreign forces that kill Indians.Congress asked whether the PM would raise the killing of Indian seafarers and the “threatening language” of secretary of state Marco Rubio with the Indian the foreign minister in his upcoming…
Rebel camp to merge with NCPI, extends support to NDA NEW DELHI: Chances of even a politically clued-in person having heard of Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) are near-zero. It is now set to be the fifth biggest party in Lok Sabha.In a dramatic development, 20 rebel Trinamool Congress MPs informed Lok Sabha Speaker…
NEW DELHI: Buzz is growing that assembly polls in Punjab may be brought forward to Nov 2026 from Feb 2027, as scheduled. Keeping this in mind, Congress is learnt to have started its preparations, while the ruling AAP has already kickstarted its campaign.Congress sources said the Punjab unit has held discussions on Nov polls, while…
NEW DELHI: A hug, a handshake and a pitch worth $1.5 billion. That was the texture of Sunday in Nice, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron jointly threw open ‘Bharat Innovates 2026’ — and where, hours earlier, Modi had quietly worked a room full of people who write the cheques. The…
Abhishek Banerjee (File photo) NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday wrote to Speaker Om Birla citing the legal and Constitutional provisions to firmly assert that the All India Trinamool Congress must be treated as a single political party represented in the House solely through its duly authorised leader and whip, and…
Mortal remains of AN-32 crash victims from Jorhat sent to their native places by IAF NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Sunday transported the mortal remains of the personnel who lost their lives in the crash of an AN-32 transport aircraft at the Jorhat Air Force Station in Assam on June 13, to…
NEW DELHI: The outcomes from the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron held in Nice, France on Sunday consisted frameworks for various strategic cooperations between the two leaders.The two leaders adopted the India-France Innovation Roadmap 2030, a framework designed to deepen cooperation in critical and emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, startups…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said India is a peace-loving nation but is fully capable of dealing decisively with forces that threaten its security, asserting that the armed forces have been given complete freedom to act against terrorism.Addressing a gathering after unveiling a statue of Maharana Pratap, Singh said, “We are people…
Wife of Indian seafarer who died aboard vessel in Oman seeks ‘justice’ NEW DELHI: The family of Indian seafarer Nishanth Uirthanathan, who died aboard the vessel MT Celestial in Oman waters, has appealed to the government for the early repatriation of his mortal remains and demanded a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death.Speaking…
NEW DELHI: Twenty rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs in Lok Sabha are set to merge with the Nationalist Citizens Party and would extend their support to the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), said TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Sunday. This came after hours long meeting with the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in New…