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West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the ‘greatest danger’ for India and said she will give her life to ensure that no riot takes place in the state. She alleged the BJP is targeting her nephew and Diamon...
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Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah's scheduled rally in Jadavpur parliamentary constituency in Kolkata was called off on Monday after the West Bengal government, the saffron party claimed, denied him permission to land his helicopter and address a public meeting in the constituency. Accu...
Millions of Indians exercised their franchise on Sunday in voting in the sixth and penultimate phase of Indian parliamentary polls across the national capital and six other states in an another litmus test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s re-election bid. India’s first citizen Presiden...
The Indian Air Force was formally handed over the first Apache Guardian attack helicopter at a production facility of Boeing in Arizona, the United States, on Friday in a boost to New Delhi’s efforts to modernize its ageing fleet of the Air Force. Air Marshal AS Butola of the Indian Air Force ...
Bangladesh has confirmed its participation in a World Trade Organization ministerial meeting of developing and least developed countries to be held here on May 13-14 in the backdrop of rising trade frictions across the world, the Indian Commerce Ministry said on Friday. Sixteen developing countries ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's allegation that Rajiv Gandhi used a Navy warship as a ‘personal taxi’ was rejected by former Indian Navy chief Admiral (retd) L Ramdas as well as by a former commanding officer of the aircraft carrier. However, another former Navy Commander V K J...
India will export chilli meal to China under a protocol signed in New Delhi on Thursday as part of a move to promote a more balanced bilateral trade which is now heavily tilted in favour of Beijing. This was the fourth protocol signed between the two countries over the past year allowing the export ...
For the first time in India’s parliamentary elections, the Election Commission of India will undertake the exercise of matching EVM results with Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail machine (VVPAT) slips during vote-count of the ongoing polls on May 23. The poll body said that in case of a mismatc...
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Rajib used warship as private taxi: ModiIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked Rajiv Gandhi as he said the former PM and his family went for a vacation on board an Indian Navy's warship using it like a ‘personal taxi’ and contended that it had compromised national security.The ...
The Indian Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea seeking direction to debar Congress President Rahul Gandhi from contesting the parliamentary elections till the issue of his citizenship is decided. A bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, rejected the contention of the petitioners that in ...
Opposition Congress party president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday tendered an unconditional apology in the Supreme Court for wrongfully attributing to the apex court the 'chowkidar chor hai' remark in the verdict on Rafael fighter aircraft deal with France. He also sought closure of the criminal...
Veteran Indian director Shyam Benegal is likely to begin the shoot of his much-awaited feature film on the life and works of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a Bangladesh-India co-production, in November this year and complete the same by February next. This was decided at a two-and-half-hour meet...
In a veiled attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said the Mahabharata character Duryodhana too had such arrogance.Addressing an election meeting in Ambala in Haryana state, she also criticised Modi for calling her late father and former ...
Stray violence was reported during polling in the fifth phase of parliamentary election in the seven seats in West Bengal on Monday. Violence was reported from Barrackpore, Bangaon, Howrah and Hooghly constituencies. "There have been some stray incidents of violence from a few places. We have t...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday undertook an aerial survey of the areas devastated by extremely severe cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ in Odisha state on May 3 and announced an immediate assistance of Rs one thousand crore to the state. The Prime Minister also announced ex-gratia of ...
The cyclonic storm Fani entered Bangladesh on Saturday in a weakened form after sweeping India’s East Coast comprising Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal as also the north eastern states. Odisha was in the eye of the storm in its extremely severe form and was the worst-hit in t...
The Indian government on Saturday said it is dispatching health experts to Odisha, the state worst-hit by extremely severe cyclonic storm ‘Fani,’ to prevent outbreak of epidemic and the Navy mounted a massive three-pronged rescue and rehabilitation effort in the state in the wake of exte...
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the highest spender among the political parties in advertising expenditure on social media at the end of the fourth phase of the ongoing parliamentary elections, say latest data supplied by advertising transparency reports by Google and Facebook.T...
India's apex court has asked the Election Commission to pass “necessary orders” on a representation seeking advancing of the voting time to 5 am from 7 am for the remaining three phases of parliamentary elections due to the holy month of Ramadan and heat-wave conditions. A plea in th...
India mounted its biggest-ever evacuation effort pulling back an estimated 800,000 people from low-lying areas along the coast of the Bay of Bengal in Odisha as the extremely severe cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ that is set to hit the eastern state on Friday afternoon holding out the threat of m...
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