New Delhi President Ram Nath Kovind today noted that India and Switzerland would have the first automatic exchange of information on tax matters in the coming weeks. “It is a very positive development. Tax evasion and money-laundering have strong links with terrorism. The scourge of terrorism is among the gravestRead More

Greater Noida The Delhi Declaration adopted at the 14th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has proposed land-based solutions for climate action and biodiversity conservation. “The world needs to consider land-based solutions for climate action and biodiversity to achieve the long-term goals of theRead More

New Delhi Though India staved off the Pakistani challenge at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on September 10, its diplomats are keeping their guard up against a surprise ambush. Indian diplomats have another reason to be on their toes. PM Narendra Modi and Pakistan PM Imran Khan will speakRead More

New Delhi, September 14 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday pitched for a common language for the country saying Hindi which is spoken the most could unite the country. The Union Home Minister said efforts would be made to expand Hindi to different parts of the country and askedRead More

Mumbai Farmers in India’s main onion markets of Lasalgaon and Pimpalgaon on Saturday held protests after wholesale prices of the bulb softened following the imposition of the Minimum Export Price on Friday. According to sources at Lasalgaon, wholesale prices of good-quality onion which touched Rs 2,900 per quintal on FridayRead More

New Delhi Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the economy was facing a dangerously protracted slowdown and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of expanding it to $5 trillion by 2024 was a “pipe dream.” “The country is in the midst of a dangerously protracted slowdown and the economy isRead More

United Nations UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment of Abhijit Guha, a retired Indian lieutenant general as the head of the UN mission in Hodeidah, Yemen. Besides leading the UN Mission in support of the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA), Guha will also assume chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC),Read More

New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed grief over the death of 11 people in boat capsize in Bhopal, saying his thoughts are with the families of those who died. Eleven people drowned after two boats carrying them capsized during Ganesh idol immersion at a lake in BhopalRead More

Shahjahanpur BJP leader and former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand has been quizzed by the SIT for around seven hours in connection with a law student’s allegation that he raped her, his counsel said on Friday. The special investigation team, formed on the orders of the Supreme Court, summoned Chinmayanad toRead More

New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepal PM KP Oli on Tuesday jointly inaugurated South Asia’s first cross-border petroleum products pipeline that will reduce the price of petroleum in the landlocked country by Rs 2 per litre. The work on the pipeline from Motihari in India to Amlekhgunj inRead More