Category: India News

Nirav Modi’s extradition request sent to court by UK home secy: ED

New Delhi, Mar 9: The United Kingdom’s home secretary has recently referred India’s request for extraditing PNB scam accused Nirav Modi to a court for initiating legal proceedings against the diamantaire, the Enforcement Directorate said Saturday. “Request for extradition of Nirav Modi to India was sent in July 2018 […]

India waiting for UK reply after fugitive Nirav Modi’s video surfaces

NEW DELHI  – India said on Saturday it was waiting for Britain to respond to its request to extradite fugitive billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi, after London’s Telegraph newspaper reported that he was living in an upscale apartment in London. India had asked Britain in August to extradite Modi, […]

Factbox: Votes, boats and elephants – India’s colossal election by the numbers

NEW DELHI  – India is expected to hold a general election starting next month in the world’s largest democratic exercise, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a second straight term. The country of 1.3 billion people typically holds elections in multiple phases to ensure security across polling stations. […]

Indian cricketers wear army camouflage caps as patriotism grips country

NEW DELHI – Indian cricketers wore army camouflage-style caps in a match with Australia on Friday in solidarity with Indian paramilitary police killed in a militant attack by a Pakistan-based group and in an unusually strong display of patriotic fervour in sport. The suicide bombing last month killed […]

Anti-Pakistan wave helps Modi salvage some votes from unhappy farms

PEMDARA, India – Bleeding support in the countryside because of falling farm incomes, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi could still persuade just enough rural voters to give him a second term after ordering an air strike inside Pakistan last month. How rural India votes will be crucial to […]

Aircel-Maxis case: Protection from arrest to Chidambaram, Karti extended till March 25

New Delhi, Mar 8: A Delhi court Friday extended till March 25 the interim protection from arrest granted to former Union minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti in the Aircel-Maxis scam cases filed by the CBI and the ED. Special Judge O P Saini adjourned the matter after […]

Those who fail to create history try to distort it: PM

New Delhi, Mar 7: Those who fail to create history try to distort it, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday as he stressed on the need for accepting history as it is and not allowing it to be distorted by any ideology. Speaking at the launch of the first […]

GoAir flight makes emergency landing at Lucknow

New Delhi, Mar 7: A GoAir flight from Patna to the national capital made an emergency landing at Lucknow airport on Thursday due to a technical snag. In a statement, the airline said flight G8-150 from Patna to Delhi which departed at 17:10 hours had to be diverted […]

Rahul to address Delhi Cong booth in-charges on Monday

New Delhi, Mar 7: Congress president Rahul Gandhi will address thousands of party polling booth in-charges in Delhi at a convention on Monday. The convention — ‘Mera Booth, Mera Gaurav’ (my booth, my pride) — will be held at Indira Gandhi Stadium on March 11, working president of […]

India holds Kashmir separatists under law allowing imprisonment without charge

SRINAGAR, India – Indian authorities on Thursday extended the detention of two separatist leaders in the disputed Kashmir region, police said, holding them under a controversial law that allows for suspects to be held for up to two years without charge. The order is part of a crackdown […]

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