Bengaluru Buoyed by the Supreme Court’s favourable order on their joint petitions to abstain from the Assembly, 15 Karnataka rebel legislators of the ruling Congress-JD-S allies said on Wednesday they would not attend the session on Thursday (July 18) for the trust vote by beleaguered Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. “WeRead More

New Delhi India is not out of the Afghan game yet despite being excluded from the four-country talks in Beijing last week, said sources here. India’s self-interest lies in moving forward with its plans for economic development in Afghanistan, an initiative that will go down with any new government inRead More

New Delhi With the water shortage emerging as the top issue before the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday told the party MPs to find solution to the crisis and come up with at least one innovative idea for his or her constituency. The party leaders who attended the weekly parliamentaryRead More

A ‘Victory Flame’ that will journey from Delhi to Kargil was lit by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at National War Memorial in New Delhi on Sunday The flame was handed over by Rajnath to Olympic shooter Subedar Jitu Rai in the presence of Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat and KargilRead More

Ahmedabad Canada’s High Commissioner to India Nadir Patel has said chances of early conclusion of the trade agreement between his country and India are bleak but trade is growing rapidly. Bilateral trade between the two countries grew by 60 per cent in the last five years to USD 9 billionRead More

Sriharikota The launch of India’s second mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-2, was called off due to a technical snag less than an hour before blast-off on Monday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said. The countdown for the launch of Chandrayaan-2, on board the GSLV Mk-III rocket, was scheduled forRead More

New Delhi The government asserted on Monday that a Bill to broaden the NIA’s investigating powers is part of its policy of zero tolerance against terrorism and is in national interest, as Lok Sabha took up a discussion on the proposed legislation. While Minister of State for Home G KishanRead More

Guwahati/Shillong/Patna Heavy rain and floods have displaced lakhs of people in the states of Assam, Bihar and Meghalaya, leaving state administrations scampering to deal with a quickly escalating situation. Over 26 lakh people were affected in Assam alone—according to data that Assam’s State Disaster Management Authority uploaded on its websiteRead More

Chennai A good measure of women’s power is powering Chandrayaan-2 with the Project Director and the Mission Director also being women. “Nearly 30 per cent of the members working on the Chandrayaan-2 mission will be women,” K Sivan, Chairman, ISRO, had told the media earlier. The Project Director is MRead More

New Delhi External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has called for fast-tracking the readmission of Maldives to the Commonwealth which it left in 2016 due to the political turmoil. The Commonwealth had been a source of strength for the ousted President Mohamed Nasheed whose political formation has again come into power after anRead More