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China pledges closer ties with Pakistan during Imran visit
China on Sunday pledged closer cooperation with Pakistan under the USD 60 billion CPEC investment programme and called for resolving the Kashmir issue properly and peacefully while opposing any “unilateral actions” that could complicate the situation as Prime Minister Imran Khan held talks with the top Chinese leadership, including...
2-day national mourning for Lata Mangeshkar
Two-day national mourning will be observed in memory of Lata Mangeshkar who died today in Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital. She was 92. The national flag will fly at half-mast for two days, as a mark of respect for the legendary singer. Called the Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar was...
Yogi’s new math predicts landslide BJP victory
Claiming that the BJP was heading to a landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that the electoral contest now will be “90 percent versus 10 percent” in favour of his party instead of “80 per cent versus 20 per cent”. Emphasising...
Azad, Manish excluded from Punjab Cong star campaigner list
Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Lok Sabha MP from the state Manish Tewari are not among the party’s star campaigners for the February 20 assembly election in Punjab. The Congress released its list of 30 ‘star campaigners’ for Punjab, which includes Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, and Rahul Gandhi....
Cong not to announce CMs by rotation in Punjab
Congress today denied rumours of a rotational chief minister arrangement in Punjab. Rahul Gandhi will announce just one name as the chief ministerial candidate tomorrow, sources said. Amidst the heated contest for the top job in the state, there was earlier a buzz that Rahul Gandhi would announce two...
Hijab row in another Karnataka college
This morning, around 40 women students wearing the hijab stood at the gates of the Bhandarkars Arts and Science Degree College in Kundapur, a coastal town in Udupi district of Karnataka, as the staff refused to let them in unless they took off their headscarves. They missed their classes...
US says it does not endorse Rahul’s Pakistan, China remark
The US doesn’t endorse Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s comment in parliament on India’s foreign policy, the State Department spokesperson has said. Rahul Gandhi while criticising the government over a range of issues yesterday had blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for following a flawed policy, both domestic and international, that...
US deploys 3,000 troops to E. Europe amid Ukraine crisis
The United States on Wednesday deployed several thousand troops to bolster NATO forces in eastern Europe, as the leaders of France and Germany flagged trips to Moscow to address Western fears of an invasion of Ukraine. With Russia refusing to pull back 100,000 troops poised on Ukraine’s borders, 1,000...
Priyanka slams Sitharaman’s ‘UP-type’ remarks
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has ripped into Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman over her “typical UP-type” remark while countering Rahul Gandhi’s criticism of the Union Budget on Tuesday. At the post-Budget speech media briefing, junior Finance Minister Pankaj Chaudhary asked Ms Sitharaman to respond to Rahul Gandhi’s “zero-sum Budget” comment. “I...
Ambani, Adani, Mittal may land windfall gains
India’s plans to classify data centers and energy storage as infrastructure assets allowing firms to access cheap and long-term credit, in a big boost for billionaires Gautam Adani, Sunil Mittal and Mukesh Ambani’s plans to aggressively grow in these segments. “Data centers and energy storage systems including dense charging...
