Delhi: Ahead of the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday that Article 370 was a national issue for them and that there should be an extensive debate over its utility. He also said that there were many schemesRead More

New Delhi: The removal of CBI Director Ranjit Sinha by the Supreme Court from 2G scam case has prompted the agency’s former chiefs to term it as a “bad dream” which they would like to forget. Reacting to the apex court’s removal of Sinha from the case and highly criticalRead More

New Delhi: Inter-linking of rivers will raise the irrigation capacity of the country by 90 percent, Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti said Thursday. “There is no shortage of water in our country. Excess rain water in our country flows into seas through rivers. We need to conserve this waterRead More

New Delhi: Union Minister Maneka Gandhi has called for making gender equality an international mass movement, saying it should go beyond being a mere slogan. The Women and Child Development Minister said this while addressing the Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Beijing+20 Review, organised byRead More

New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Justice Dipak Misra on Thursday called for a codified law as well as imparting proper training to law enforcement officers to deal with the issue of cyber crime and match the level of intelligence of the criminals who commit such offences. Expressing concern over theRead More

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stop-over at Nepal’s Janakpur was on Thursday cancelled at the last minute due to opposition by some political parties peeved over their non-inclusion in the preparatory committee. Bimalendra Nidhi, Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport and also chief of the preparation committee in Janakpur,Read More

Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday China had illegally occupied Aksai Chin and that incursions by Chinese troops did not augur well in maintaining cordial relations with India’s neighbour. He also said that India wanted to maintain good relations with its neighbours but the gesture should beRead More

Greater Noida: In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ campaign, the HRD ministry is planning to come up with a ‘Think in India’ drive to encourage students and researchers to come up with innovations and new ideas and to keep the talent back home from leaving abroad.Read More

Mumbai: Indian-origin Governor of the US state of South Carolina, Nikki Haley Thursday said she is very optimistic about India and will focus on building ties between the two countries. “We are very optimistic about where India is going and believe that the world is looking at the country enthusiastically.Read More

New Delhi/Suva,Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said India would play the role of ‘Visvaguru’ or teacher to the world and would use the strengths of its democracy and young population to benefit the mankind. Modi said the coming age would be the age of knowledge, and India would once againRead More