Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar (ANI) NEW DELHI: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday strongly backed “economic nationalism,” amid trade and tourism boycott of Turkey and Azerbaijan following their support to Pakistan in the recent conflict with India.Also Read | ‘Bharat has done it’: Vice president Dhankhar likens Operation Sindoor to Osama bin Laden killing in…
NEW DELHI: A technical snag in a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft was quickly and jointly resolved by India and the US Air Forces at the Jaipur airbase on Saturday. According to a post on X, an IAF maintenance team worked with US Air Force personnel to fix the issue. The swift response…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Saturday demanded an amendment in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and suggested declaring Pakistan a terrorist state. While addressing a press conference, Kapil Sibal claimed that during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s tenure, terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir kept reducing. “The real issue is terrorism. That’s…
After a two-year break, the Manipur Department of Tourism will host the 5th State-Level Shirui Lily Festival from May 20th to 24th, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Manipur’s iconic state flower. The event also aims to raise awareness about the endangered Shirui Lily, a unique plant found only in the Shirui Hills of Manipur.The festival…
MPs Shashi Tharoor, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Supriya Sule (File Images) NEW DELHI: The Centre on Saturday has picked seven MPs across the parties to lead seven all-party delegations to key partner nations, which comes in the wake of Operation Sindoor, which was launched on May 7 after the April 22 Pahalgam attack. Opposition leaders…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday fired salvos at Congress after Thiruvananthpuram MP Shashi Tharoor‘s name was missing from the list of MPs it handed out to the government for the all-party delegation set to be sent abroad to present India’s stance on the Pakistan-sponsored cross-border terrorism.BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari latched on to the…
NEW DELHI: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday drew parallels between recent Operation Sindoor after Pahalgan terror attack and the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden by US forces, calling the Indian military action the “deepest-ever cross-border strike” against terrorism.Dhankhar speaking at an event referred to the US raid that took place on May 2,…
NEW DELHI: Congress proposed the names of four leaders for the all-party delegation, but the name of the Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, who is all set to lead the delegation for the Operation Sindoor briefing, is not there. In a post on X, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the Congress has…
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor (ANI) NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said that he is “honoured” by the invitation of the government to lead an all-party delegation, and added that when national interest is involved, he will “not be found wanting.”“I am honoured by the invitation of the government of India to lead…
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two ISIS sleeper cell fugitives at Mumbai airport, officials confirmed on Saturday. The suspects were sought in connection with a 2023 IED manufacturing and testing case in Pune, Maharashtra.Abdullah Faiyaz Shaikh, also known as Diaperwala, and Talha Khan were intercepted by Immigration authorities at Mumbai International…
