New Delhi Nripendra Misra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, has decided to step down from the post. While the PM acceded to Misra’s intention to be relieved of his assignment, he was requested to continue for two weeks. Former Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha, a retired IAS officer of UPRead More

Kolkata The West Bengal Assembly today passed a Bill to check incidents of mob assaults and lynching and criminalised such actions. The West Bengal (Prevention of Lynching) Bill, 2019, was tabled in the House and supported by the Opposition Congress and CPM. The BJP, which has emerged as the mainRead More

Islamabad/Gurdaspur, August 30 Officials from India and Pakistan on Friday discussed in a cordial atmosphere the technical modalities like the level of roads and the bridge of the proposed Kartarpur Corridor for Sikh pilgrims, the first such meeting after New Delhi revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s special status leading to freshRead More

Nanded Actor-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar on Thursday hit out at the Centre over the security clampdown in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370. Her husband has not been able to speak to his parents, who live in Kashmir, for the past 22 days, she said. “The question isRead More

New Delhi Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at the government over the record cash transfer by the RBI, saying the Prime Minister and the finance minister are “clueless” about solving the “self-created economic disaster” and accused them of “stealing money” from the Bank. He said the moveRead More

New Delhi In his first public engagement after returning from the G7 Summit in Paris, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday morning visited former finance minister Arun Jaitley’s family at his Kailash Colony residence here. Jaitley passed away on Saturday, when the PM was in the UAE. From the UAE,Read More

Washington The White House on Monday claimed helping reduce India-Pakistan tension is one of the five big takeaways from the just-concluded G7 Summit. President Donald Trump returned home from the Group of Seven Summit held in the French city of Biarritz from August 24 and 26. In its daily round-upRead More

Islamabad With Pakistan failing to get traction for its belligerent stand on Kashmir, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that he will raise the issue at every international forum, including at the UN General Assembly. In his address to the nation on the Kashmir issue after India revoked theRead More

Bhopal BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur on Monday said the Opposition is using a ‘marak shakti’ (killing power) to harm BJP leaders, and that ‘evil power’ was behind the recent deaths of former Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj. BJP veteran Arun Jaitley died on August 24 and SwarajRead More

Biarritz (France) Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks very good English, but “just doesn’t want to talk”, US President Donald Trump said jokingly on Monday before the two leaders met for formal talks on the sidelines of the G-7 Summit. The two leaders held 40-minute discussions in Biarritz, the French townRead More