open view web desk New Delhi, Aug 16: Statesman and pragmatist, orator and poet, a man of peace and conviction. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a towering nationalist who softened the often sharp edge of his party’s politics with a gentle sophistry of words, earning him the sobriquet “ajaat shatru” […]
open view web desk NEW DELHI — Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a Hindu nationalist who set off a nuclear arms race with rival Pakistan but later reached across the border to begin a groundbreaking peace process, died on Thursday after a prolonged illness. He was […]
open view web desk Three-time Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has died, current leader Narendra Modi said Thursday of the ailing 93-year-old who had been hospitalised. “Atal Ji’s passing away is a personal and irreplaceable loss for me,” Modi said in a tweet Thursday, using a Hindi-language […]
open view web desk Three-time Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee died Thursday, sparking tributes from across the political spectrum as current leader Narendra Modi mourned the “irreplaceable loss” of the respected statesman. The 93-year-old had battled poor health for years but his condition deteriorated sharply in recent […]
open view web desk Punya Prasun Bajpai Four decades ago, one prime minister, after formally declaring a state of national emergency, had articulated her dream of building a new India. Four decades later, we have yet another prime minister expressing his dream of a new India, which rests […]
open view web desk New Delhi, Aug 12: Taking a serious view against a man for lying on oath, the Delhi High Court has sentenced him to jail for a month for contempt of court and said it will be a great public disaster if the fountain of justice […]
open view web desk Srinagar, Aug 11: Justice Gita Mittal became the first-ever woman Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court after she was administered the oath of office by Governor N N Vohra here today. The Governor administered the oath of office to Justice Mittal as […]
open view web desk New Delhi, Aug 13: Some unidentified men targeted Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Umar Khalid and gunshots were heard at the Constitution Club near Parliament in New Delhi on Monday, but he escaped unhurt, police said Witnesses claimed that two shots were fired when Khalid […]
open view web desk Cross-legged in a windowless, almost pitch-black bamboo shack, the investigator pressed record on a video camera and asked the young Rohingya woman to describe the night the Myanmar soldiers came. “They broke down our door. They took my husband outside and shot him,” recalled […]
open view web desk North and South Korea agreed Monday to hold a summit in Pyongyang in September after high-level talks in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula. The two sides “agreed at the meeting to hold a South-North summit in Pyongyang in September as planned”, the […]
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