NEW DELHI: Britain doesn’t welcome people who want to use its legal system to evade the law here in India, said UK PM Boris Johnson when asked about the pending extradition of economic fugitives like Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya. In his meeting with PM Narendra Modi, he said the UK is sensitive to India’s … Read more
NEW DELHI: Indicating his keenness for a trade agreement with India, British PM Boris Johnson on Friday set an ambitious target of clinching a deal by Diwali, minutes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of a year-end deadline for negotiators from both countries. “Teams from both countries are working on an FTA and there is … Read more
SRINAGAR: Two Pakistani terrorists of the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammad group and a CISF officer were killed while nine more security personnel suffered bullet and splinter wounds in a four-hour gunfight following an ambush on a paramilitary bus early Friday near Sunjuwan military camp, 8km from Jammu city. The attack by terrorists “wearing explosive-laden suicide vests” happened … Read more
NEW DELHI: Niti Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar has stepped down, sources said. The reason behind his sudden move could not be immediately ascertained. Dr Suman K Bery has been appointed the new vice-chairman in place of Kumar. He will take charge from May 1, 2022, an official order said. Kumar’s tenure will end on April … Read more
NEW DELHI: Months ahead of the assembly elections in Gujarat, the Congress stares at the prospect of losing a key leader in the state. Hardik Patel has put the grand old party in a spot of bother with his lavish praise for the ruling BJP. The working president of Gujarat Congress, who had openly criticised … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Congress and the BJP engaged in a war of words on Friday after two temples were demolished using bulldozers in Rajgarh town of Alwar district in Rajasthan. Two temples and some shops were demolished early this week on Sunday and Monday in Rajgarh with officials describing the action as part of an … Read more
NEW DELHI: India-UK trade agreements, military ties and India’s position vis-à-vis Russia and the Ukraine war dominated talks during UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s two-day visit to India. Johnson met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at New Delhi’s Hyderabad House, where the two leaders also discussed free trade negotiations, cooperation on energy, green hydrogen, and defence … Read more
JAMMU: One security force personnel was killed and three more suffered injuries in a gunfight with terrorists in a locality near an Army camp on the outskirts of Jammu early Friday, officials said. The encounter in Sunjwan took place amid heightened security arrangements in Jammu and Kashmir, two days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s … Read more
NEW DELHI: Pollster Prashant Kishor is learnt to have asked Congress to create a post of vice-president who will head the “election task force” to take care of poll management across the country, and who will be attached to the office of the party president. The post should be held by a non-Gandhi while the … Read more
NEW DELHI: The submission of the Union home secretary that Abu Salem’s appeal against his conviction be first decided on merit and not the issue of honouring of the Centre’s assurance to Portugal for not keeping him in jail for more than 25 years as it will arise only in 2030, drew the ire of … Read more