MUMBAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sports minister Anuraj Thakur and the country’s first individual gold medal winner at the Olympics, Abhinav Bindra on Sunday led the nation in hailing the men’s badminton team for winning a historic maiden title in Thomas Cup World team badminton championships in Bangkok. India scripted history with a dominant 3-0 … Read more
NEW DELHI: India has fallen eight places from 142 to 150 in the 2022 World Press Freedom Index of 180 countries. The index, published on Tuesday by Reporters Without Borders, points to an overall two-fold increase in media polarisation creating divisions within countries, and between countries at the international level. India’s ranking, as per the … Read more
DHAKA: External affairs minister S Jaishankar met Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday. Hasina offered her country’s seaport, Chittagong to India, for use by Assam and Tripura. This would lead to better connectivity between the two countries. Jaishankar also invited Hasina to visit New Delhi. The invitation was extended on behalf of PM Narendra … Read more
GUWAHATI: Arrested Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani was freed on bail in Assam’s Kokrajhar on Monday, only for Barpeta police to take him into custody again on charges of assaulting a woman cop the day he was brought to the state to face a probe into allegedly provocative tweets on PM Narendra Modi. “BJP and RSS … 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