AAP “officially” lists reasons for Yogendra Yadav and Prashant ...
NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) issued a scathing statement against Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan on Tuesday morning defending the national executive’s decision to oust the duo from the political affairs committee (PAC), the party’s highest decision-making body. Yadav and... read more »
Centre was not informed by state on decision to release Masarat Alam, Modi ...
NEW DELHI: Responding to the opposition charges in Parliament, home minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said the Centre had sought report from the J&K government on the controversial release of hardline separatist Masarat Alam from jail. Making a statement in the Lok Sabha, Rajnath Singh said... read more »
Mamata Banerjee to Meet PM Narendra Modi With ‘Long List’
NEW DELHI: Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of Bengal, will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi shortly to discuss what she calls a “long list” that includes her state’s financial crisis. The meeting comes in the middle of the government’s last ditch attempts to bring the... read more »
India and Australia condemn woman killing in Sydney
India’s foreign ministry has said it has taken up the murder of an Indian woman in a Sydney park with the premier of New South Wales. Prabha Arun Kumar, 41, died in a stabbing attack while speaking to her husband in India on the phone on Saturday evening, reports said. Ms Kumar, an info-tech... read more »
Ferguson Police Officer Not Charged in Black Teen’s Shooting
CLAYTON, Mo.— A grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager whose death in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson became a national flash... read more »
Iran releases British-Iranian woman on bail
TEHRAN: Iranian authorities released a British-Iranian woman on bail, the semi-official ISNA news agency said. The report quoted Sousan Moshtaghian, mother of Ghoncheh Ghavami, as saying a... read more »
India’s Father Kuriakose Chavara and Sister Euphrasia canonised by Pope in Vatican
Two Kerala-born Indian Catholics Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Sister Euphrasia were canonized by Pope Francis on Sunday at St Peter’s Square in Vatican. Back in Kerala, special... read more »
Iran nuclear deal: Deadline day brings talk of extension
Negotiators in Vienna, Austria, are set to make a final push to try to reach a deal on Iran’s nuclear programme ahead of a 23:00 GMT deadline. They said earlier “serious... read more »
PM Narendra Modi expects fruitful cooperation from opposition; pr...
Winter session of Parliament beginning today is all set to be a contentious affair with several Opposition parties deciding to oppose the insurance bill and corner the government on black money... read more »
