India-UK officials after the pact (X/@UKDefenceIndia) NEW DELHI: India and the United Kingdom on Wednesday announced a 10-year defence industrial roadmap, aimed at boosting defence cooperation and strengthening security ties as part of the broader Vision 2035 partnership. The plan was unveiled in a post by the British high commission on social media platform X….
S Jaishankar and Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: In a fiery address in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, external affairs minister S Jaishankar launched a stinging, thinly veiled attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Jaishankar branded him a “China-guru” and accused him of acquiring his knowledge of Beijing through “Olympic invites and private tuitions from Chinese…
NEW DELHI: The Amarnath Yatra will remain suspended from Jammu on Thursday due to heavy rains in Kashmir, according to the Jammu and Kashmir Information and Public Relations Department (DIPR) .“Due to the heavy rains in the yatra area, the movement of pilgrims from base camps has been affected. Therefore, it has been decided that…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief JP Nadda on Wednesday slammed the Congress party, recalling how the UPA government responded to terrorist attacks that claimed hundreds of civilian lives over the years.During the debate on Operation Sindoor in Rajya Sabha, Nadda said: “Woh hume goliyon se bhunte rahe aur hum unko biryani khilane chale”…
Terming Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s planned protest in Bengaluru on August 4 alleging votes theft as “funny”, Karnataka BJP president B Y Vijayendra on Wednesday said, if the election commission can be “manipulated” as being claimed, probably the grand old party would have sat in opposition in the state.Stating that Gandhi was misguided on this…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan on Wednesday questioned the government’s narrative around the Pahalgam terror attack, saying it sounded more like “fiction” than fact.“It feels strange to say this because whatever happened … it felt like something out of a book or a film … people came like this, killed so many people,…
Buddha’s Piprahwa relics (X/@narendramodi) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Wednesday that the sacred Piprahwa relics of Lord Buddha have returned to India after 127 years. He noted that although the relics were discovered in 1898, they were taken out of the country during the colonial era. In a post on X, the…
High number of audit findings ‘entirely normal for airlines with extensive operations & large fleet,’ says DGCA NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Wednesday said “a higher number of audit findings is entirely normal for airlines with extensive operations and large fleet sizes.” And that the higher number of audit findings “reflect…
S Jaishankar (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday addressed the Rajya Sabha on Operation Sindoor, reaffirming the Centre’s position on its response following the Pahalgam terror attack. He outlined the government’s decisive actions, including diplomatic steps like the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty and the launch of Operation Sindoor,…
Rahul Gandhi (File Photo) NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday stepped up his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over US President Donald Trump‘s repeated attempts for claiming credit for brokering a peace deal between India and Pakistan.While talking to reporters outside Parliament complex, Rahul said that PM Modi…