Category: India

BJP man to be Goa CM; allies manage to get 2 Dy CM’s posts

Panaji, Mar 18:  BJP’s Pramod Sawant willl be the new chief minister of Goa, party sources said Monday. Two MLAs from the BJP alliance partners will be made deputy chief ministers as part of the compromise reached with allies, they said. The BJP managed to break the deadlock […]

BJP creating artificial majority in Goa, Cong should be allowed to form govt: Azad

New Delhi, Mar 18:  The Congress Monday accused the BJP of creating an “artificial majority” in Goa at the directions of the Centre, and urged Governor Mridula Sinha to invite the opposition party to form a government as it was the single largest party. The coastal state is […]

Pakistan standoff helps India’s Modi shift focus from jobs

NEW DELHI — A standoff with nuclear rival Pakistan appears to have given Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, head of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, a boost ahead of national elections set to begin in April. After a suicide bombing killed 40 soldiers in Indian-controlled Kashmir, India’s […]

An Indian family grieves as hours pass without father’s body after New Zealand shootings

NEW DELHI – Indian immigrant Imran Khokhar, 27, had dropped off his father at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch and was still in the parking lot when he heard the screams. He raced toward the mosque doors to reach his father, who was visiting him from India, […]

Goa govt stable, leadership thinking on ‘political transit phase’, says BJP

Panaji, Mar 17: Amid Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s deteriorating health, the BJP on Sunday said it is “already thinking on Goa political transit phase” even as the party asserted that the state government was “stable” and warned people against rumours. Parrikar, 63, is suffering from a pancreatic ailment. “Our […]

Modi was busy posing for cameras when jawans were blown up in Pulwama: Rahul

Dehradun, Mar 16: Congress president Rahul Gandhi trained his guns at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, saying the PM was busy posing for cameras at the Corbett National Park when CRPF jawans were being killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama. Launching his party’s campaign for the upcoming Lok […]

Sreesanth ban issue will be taken up at CoA meeting: Vinod Rai

New Delhi, Mar 15: The life ban on S Sreesanth will be discussed when the Committee of Administrators running Indian cricket meets next after the Supreme Court asked the BCCI to reconsider the punishment handed to the pacer for his alleged involvement in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal. A […]

Indian groups urge boycott of Chinese goods over stance on Masood Azhar

NEW DELHI – An influential Hindu nationalist group and an Indian traders body called on Thursday for a boycott of Chinese goods after Beijing blocked a move to put a Pakistani militant leader on a U.N. terrorist list following a suicide attack last month. Regarded by Pakistan as […]

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