NEW DELHI — Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut had an hour-long meeting with Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday to explore the option of an electoral alliance in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh and Goa. The meeting comes a day after Raut’s talks with former Congress president Rahul Gandhi. The Shiv Sena leader told reporters […]
NEW DELHI — The Mi-17V5 helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu that killed Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika and 11 others brought back memories of a 1963 chopper accident in which six officers were killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch. The crash in Poonch is considered as one […]
ISLAMABAD — The Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Nadeem Raza and the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa have expressed condolences over the death of India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat who died in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu. […]
SRINAGAR — The Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory Manoj Sinha on Wednesday expressed deep shock over the demise of (CDS) Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 others in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu. In a tweet LG Manoj Sinha said, “Deeply shocked at tragic demise of […]
NEW DELHI — Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Bipin Rawat and his wife, Madhulika Rawat, died on Wednesday, along with 11 other persons, after an Army chopper carrying them crashed in the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu. Confirming the news, the Indian Air Force tweeted, “With deep regret, it has now been ascertained that Gen […]
NEW DELHI — The world’s biggest vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII) on Tuesday said it will reduce the production of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine — marketed as Covishield in India — by at least 50 per cent from next week as government orders have dried up. Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer of SII, told […]
NEW DELHI — India has emerged as a poor and “very unequal” country, according to the latest report released by the World Inequality Lab. The bottom half of the Indian population owns “almost nothing” of the national wealth, claimed the report authored by senior economists including France’s Thomas Piketty. In 2021, the top one percent […]
LUCKNOW — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reached out to farmers, claiming the Centre had insulated them from the sudden spurt in international fertiliser and urea prices by providing subsidies worth Rs 76,000 crore. Addressing a public meeting after inaugurating the Rs 8,600-crore Gorakhpur fertiliser factory, Modi said soil nutrients NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium) […]
KOLKATA — Another member of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s family has made her entry into West Bengal politics. Mamata’s sister-in-law, Kajari Banerjee, will be a candidate in the Kolkata civic body polls on 19 December. She will be contesting on a Trinamool Congress (TMC) ticket from Ward 73, where Mamata resides. A social worker by […]
NEW DELHI — Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and senior Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday slammed the Narendra Modi-led Central government, saying that “the India of Mahatma Gandhi is gradually turning into the India of Nathuram Godse.” The remarks were a reference to the conventional symbolism that’s traditionally used to […]