Chennai: Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy on Friday said that Congress partymen were probably “much happier” during the absence of party vice- president Rahul Gandhi who has just returned to the country from his 56-day sabbatical. “I think people in his party were much happier whenRead More

Raipur: Citing Centre’s Jan Dhan Yojana and ‘Ease of Doing business’ initiatives, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said concerted and determined efforts were needed to renew India to realise Gandhiji’s dream of “swachh and samarth bharat”. Addressing the fourth convocation of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) here, he emphasised onRead More

Mumbai, Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan has received a death threat via an e-mail bearing terror outfit ISIS’ name following which his security has been stepped up and Mumbai police have launched a probe to identify the sender. The email, which threatened to eliminate the Governor, was received last monthRead More

Ahmedabad: Lok Sabha member from Ahmedabad-west Kirit Solanki on Friday alleged that Congress was trying to gain a political mileage by spreading negative information against the land acquisition bill. Referring to Congress leader Jairam Ramesh’s statement here that his party would soon start a country-wide protest and the original landRead More

Ottawa, Canada, following in the steps of the United States and Britain, will send around 200 troops to Ukraine to help train soldiers who are battling Russian-back separatists, Ottawa said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement that the troops would be based in western Ukraine, farRead More

Ottawa, Marking the first standalone bilateral visit in 42 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived today in Canada where the focus will be on setting a “trajectory” in ties through cooperation in energy, including civil nuclear and attracting trade and technology for India’s development. A significant aspect of the three-dayRead More

Ottawa, The Mike Duffy trial looks like it is going to go longer than the 41 days allotted, potentially dragging it into the orbit of the autumn federal election campaign. Ontario court Justice Charles Vaillancourt says he doesn’t see the trial completing its task by June 19, as set out inRead More

Ottawaa,  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi began the first full day of his visit to Canada by signing a deal to buy more than 3,000 tonnes of Saskatchewan uranium over the next five years to fuel his country’s power reactors. But Modi and Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed Wednesday theRead More

Patna, The BJP will form the next government in Bihar, said party chief Amit Shah on Tuesday while launching his party’s campaign for the assembly polls scheduled for later this year. “BJP is going to form the next government in Bihar. It is clear from the upbeat large gatherings ofRead More

Raipur: Union Minister of State for External Affairs General (retd) V K Singh said here on Tuesday that the decision to send the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to Sri Lanka in 1987 was “a high level policy failure”. “The decision to deploy the IPKF in Sri Lanka was aRead More