New Delhi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh appears to be the number two in the Union Cabinet. This position emerges from an official notification from the Cabinet Secretariat on the working arrangements for disposal of urgent business during the absence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is on a visit toRead More

New Delhi, India and China have resolved the stand-off at the Ladakh border and withdrawal of troops will begin today and be completed by September 30, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said describing the resolution of the issue as a “big accomplishment.” China said that it will withdraw troops byRead More

Mumbai,After NCP parted ways from the Congress in Maharashtra, the party has moved ahead to align with the Samajwadi Party for the upcoming state assembly elections. Samajwadi Party spokesman Abdul Qadir Chaudhary said Abu Asim Azmi, the state SP chief, met Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and Congress President Manikrao ThakareRead More

Mumbai, A day after NCP pulled out of the Congress-led coalition government in Maharashtra reducing it to a minority, BJP today demanded its immediate dismissal and imposition of President’s Rule in the state. Senior BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Eknath Khadse called on Governor CRead More

New York,People are coming by chartered flights, buses and trains, besides driving down to New York from all over North America, as the Indian diaspora comes together on an unprecedented scale to honour Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a community reception at New York’s Madison Square Garden in downtown ManhattanRead More

New Delhi,Congress today hit out at Narendra Modi government for “stripping” the drug pricing authority of powers to cap prices of non-essential drugs saying the Prime Minister has extracted a “very heavy price” from the country’s “poor and ailing” for “American visa and PR exercise”. The party termed the decisionRead More

New York, Pakistan has messed up the process and they should clean it up, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said after her Pakistani counterpart said that it was upto India to take the initiative to restart talks. On a day when Swaraj was running from back-to-back meeting on multilateral groups,Read More

New Delhi, In a parting shot, outgoing Chief Justice of India R.M. Lodha on Friday strongly defended the collegium system of appointment of judges, saying any other mode of appointment may impact on the independence of judiciary. He said judges are best equipped to judge the suitability of candidates before appointment. “IRead More

New Delhi,  The AAP will launch its student wing — Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti (CYSS) — here Saturday to “change the prevailing discriminatory education system in the country”. Party chief Arvind Kejriwal would launch it, the Aam Aadmi Party said in a statement Friday. “The CYSS pledges to remove cynicismRead More

New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea of a lawyer seeking direction to Karnataka trial court to defer pronouncement of its verdict in DA case of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. A bench headed by Justice T S Thakur dismissed the plea filed byRead More