London A decades-old legal dispute between India and Pakistan over around 35 million pounds belonging to the Nizam of Hyderabad at the time of Partition in 1947 and deposited in a London bank account has reached an important stage in the UK High Court. The Nizam’s descendants, Prince Mukarram JahRead More

Mumbai As many as 54,000 mangroves spread over 13.36 hectares will be affected because of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail corridor, commonly called the bullet train project, state Transport Minister Diwakar Raote has said. He was replying to a question raised by Shiv Sena legislator Maneesha Kayande in the stateRead More

New Delhi As more than 125 children die of suspected acute encephalitis syndorme (AES) in Muzaffarpur, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Bihar Government and the Centre to file affidavits within a week on adequacy of public medical care facilities, nutrition and sanitation/hygiene in the state. A Vacation Bench headedRead More

London The UK is falling behind in the global race to engage with India as it has failed to adjust its strategy to fit India’s enhanced influence and power on the world stage, a new British parliamentary inquiry report concluded on Monday. The report ‘Building Bridges: Reawakening UK-India ties’, releasedRead More

New Delhi Tearing into the BJP-led government, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday said under the ‘New India’, humans are afraid of humans, those glorifying killers of Mahatma Gandhi are in the ruling party and hatred and lynchings are at its peak. Speaking on the motion of thanksRead More

Beijing Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the G-20 summit in Japan this week during which he would meet his US counterpart Donald Trump for key talks to clinch a deal to end the bruising trade war and to forestall moves by Washington to clamp tariffs on the remaining USDRead More

New Delhi India has said it expected Pakistan to take all required steps to implement a global action plan against terrorist financing and money laundering in which it has been found deficient for yet another time. India believes the terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan is sustained by under-the-radar funds and hasRead More

New Delhi Amid rising tensions between the US and Iran, India’s aviation regulator DGCA today said Indian airlines will avoid the “affected part of the Iranian airspace” and reroute flights “suitably”. On Friday, the American aviation regulator issued a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) prohibiting US-registered aircraft from operating “in theRead More

New Delhi The BJP today hit out at its political rivals—the Congress and the Trinamool Congress—on the death anniversary of Syama Prasad Mukherjee which it observes as the ‘balidaan divas’—the sacrifice day. While the party’s newly anointed working president JP Nadda accused former Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru of turningRead More

New Delhi Taking note of violation of environmental norms, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed the construction of Laldhang Chillarkhal Road passing through the corridor between Rajaji and Corbett Tiger Reserves in Uttarakhand. The construction of roads in the buffer zone of the Rajaji National Park situated between the ShivaliksRead More