SC seeks Union’s response; plea challenges ‘push back’NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre’s response to a petition by a man alleging that his mother, released after detention of three years following a Foreigner Tribunal identifying her as a Bangladeshi, may have been forcibly pushed into Bangladesh despite her plea against the…
Vance family’s visit to India in April (ANI photo) US Vice President JD Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, on Monday heaped praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his hospitality after the Vance family visited India in April.Usha said meeting PM Modi was very special, and her kids put him in the “grandfather category” after meeting…
DHAKA: At least 20 political parties, including former PM Khaleda Zia’s BNP, Monday rejected Bangladesh chief adviser Muhammad Yunus‘s extended time frame for conducting national election, demanding it be held by Dec.Sources, however, said three political parties, including the radical Jamaat-e-Islami and NCP launched by Nahid Islam who led the anti-Sheikh Hasina movement last year,…
Bhubaneswar: Security forces on Monday recovered another 2.5 tonnes of explosives, six days after Maoists looted a stone quarry truck in Sundargarh district. The joint operation led by Odisha police involved multiple agencies, including the special operations group (SOG), district voluntary force (DVF), India Reserve Battalion (IRB), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), and Jharkhand’s Jaguars….
NEW DELHI: The line, ever so thin, between the Pakistani state and terrorists, is fast disappearing post-Operation Sindoor. Speaker of Pakistan’s Punjab assembly, Malik Ahmed Khan, has now come out in defence of Lashkar-e-Taiba deputy chief Saifullah Kasuri, by attending a rally alongside the US-designated terrorist, and Talha Saeed, son of LeT chief Hafiz Saeed.Asked…
KALIMPONG/KOLKATA/DARJEELING: Two Army personnel and a porter died when their camp in Sikkim’s Mangan was swept away late Sunday in a landslide triggered by heavy rain. Six others – four Army personnel and two family members – are missing.The landslide hit the camp in Chaten, 3km from Lachen in Mangan’s Chungthang sub-division, around 7pm. The…
New Delhi: Russia is committed to delivering the remaining units of S-400 air defence system to India by 2025-2026, said Russian deputy chief of mission Roman Babushkin Monday while highlighting that the system performed “very efficiently” during recent India-Pakistan tensions.Babushkin also said Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov is likely to visit India soon. The visit…
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia voiced strong support for India’s stand on counterterrorism and emphasised regional peace and prosperity during a visit by an all-party Indian parliamentary delegation following April 22 Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor.Malaysia’s deputy minister of national unity, Saraswathy Kandasamy, reaffirmed Kuala Lumpur’s zero-tolerance stand on violence. “India is not interested in war, rather…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi is likely to inaugurate Katra-Srinagar Vande Bharat train service this week which will mark the first rail link to Kashmir valley from the rest of the country.The PM was supposed to greenlight the train on April 19 but could not do so because of inclement weather. The opening ceremony had…
NEW DELHI: In what can further stir the already roiled Bihar political waters, Union minister Chirag Paswan has said that he was open to contesting the forthcoming assembly elections if that helps his party and improves its “strike rate”.“BJP has tried this strategy many times by fielding MPs in state polls and have got its…
