New Delhi Underscoring the upward trajectory in its bilateral relations with India, Australian High Commissioner Harinder Sidhu today said the nature of engagement was expanding and intersected with the Indo-Pacific and economic policy of the country. The growing nature of relationship with India, she said, could be visualised with theRead More

New Delhi A social media post today by Israeli Deputy Head of Mission Maya Kadosh revealed that India had broken ranks to vote with Israel in denying entry to a Palestinian NGO in a United Nations (UN) body. “Thank you India for standing with Israel and rejecting the request ofRead More

Mumbai Authorities at the Arthur Road jail here have kept “barrack No. 12” ready if fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi is extradited from the UK in connection with the $2 billion PNB fraud and money-laundering case, a Home Department official said today. The prisons department last week shared information withRead More

New Delhi Cyclone ‘Vayu’ intensified into a severe cyclonic storm on Tuesday and is likely to hit the Gujarat coast on June 13 morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. “It is very likely to move nearly northward and cross the Gujarat coast between Porbandar and Mahuva around Veraval andRead More

Lucknow The release order for journalist Prashant Kanojia was sent to Lucknow jail Wednesday by the Chief Judicial Magistrate here, a day after the Supreme Court ordered his immediate release. CJM (in-charge) Sanjai Kumar directed the release of the journalist on furnishing of two sureties of Rs 20,000 each andRead More

New Delhi Union minister Piyush Goyal was on Wednesday appointed the Deputy Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, sources said. The two-time Rajya Sabha MP will be succeeding Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who has been elected to the Lok Sabha. Goyal, the Minister of Railways and Commerce &Read More

Bengaluru India’s second mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, would be launched on July 15, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K Sivan announced on Wednesday. The landing on the moon near the South Pole, an uncharted territory so far, would be on September 6 or 7, Sivan told reporters here,Read More

New Delhi Slamming SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal, who recently met Union Home Minister Amit Shah demanding return of documents seized by the Army after Operation Bluestar, former DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK said he would lodge a complaint with the Amritsar Police and Akal Takht as the government hadRead More

New Delhi Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel is likely to be entrusted with the task of resolving the rift between Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and state Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, party sources said here on Monday. The sources said that veteran leader Patel is likely to be entrustedRead More

Lucknow As the cases of rape and murder of minor girls across Uttar Pradesh increase causing a public outcry, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked the state police to revive and further strengthen the anti-Romeo squads against anti-social elements troubling young women at public places. Chairing a high-level review meetingRead More