GAUHATI, India — Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday his government will continue its peace push in insurgency-wracked northeastern India, where accords with key rebel groups have led to the surrender of thousands of fighters. Modi said decades of violent insurrection ended in the Bodo tribal heartland in […]
LUCKNOW – U.S. and European defence firms backed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s military modernisation drive at a defence exhibition on Friday, despite a lengthy procurement process running into years and limited funds. Airbus SE and U.S.-based Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co. are eying multi-billion dollar deals […]
SRINAGAR, India – India has extended the detention of four political leaders in Kashmir and a prominent lawyer who have been held since August to quell dissent after the federal government stripped the region of its autonomy, officials and a lawyer said on Friday. The extension was issued […]
open view news desk Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) is operated as per the provisions of National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA) which inter-alia provides coverage for up to 75% of rural population and up to 50% of urban population across the country. NFSA provides coverage for about […]
New Delhi, Feb 7: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday slammed the government for invoking the Public Safety Act against former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah and said detention without charges is the worst abomination in a democracy. Mufti and Abdullah, besides two […]
New Delhi, Feb 7: The Supreme Court said it would hear the pleas against anti-CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh next week as it did not want to “influence” the Delhi assembly elections by hearing the matter on Friday. Polls in the national capital will be held on Saturday and […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 6: A remark on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by an opposition MLA in the context of the NPR and a veiled reference to her counterpart in the state Pinarayi Vijayan triggered a gender debate in the Kerala Assembly on Thursday. When IUML legislator K M […]
Mumbai, Feb 6: Amitabh Bachchan on Thursday clocked 40 million followers on Twitter. The megastar is one of the most active Bollywood personalities on Twitter. He is also present on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, among others and has a personal blog on Tumblr. At the […]
NEW DELHI – India hopes to electrify its entire railway track in the next 4-5 years, railway minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday, as part of the network’s efforts to cut its carbon footprint. Goyal said currently 55% of the railway network uses electricity while the remainder is […]
NEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party this week face their first electoral test since deadly anti-government protests erupted nearly two months ago, with the divisive turmoil likely to win them votes at polls in the capital. Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won […]
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