Sat, 09 Mar 2019 19:43:56
India has carried out three cross-border strikes in the last five years, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said here on Saturday.
Singh spoke about the 2016 surgical strike after the Uri terror attack and the air strike after the Pulwama incident in which a CRPF convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber killing 40 jawans, but he did not reveal about the third.
“I want to tell you brothers and
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Sat, 09 Mar 2019 19:40:24
The Congress will fight the general election in Uttar Pradesh on its own strength, party's west UP incharge Jyotiraditya Scindia said Saturday, asserting the path of his party may be different from that of the SP and the BSP but their objective is the same.
Scindia also said that as far as talks for alliances are concerned, "like-minded parties should also think in a like-minded way".
The A
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Sat, 09 Mar 2019 19:37:10
The government is taking all steps to extradite PNB scam accused Nirav Modi from the UK, the External Affairs Ministry said Saturday, asserting that the extradition request made to that country shows that India was aware he is there.
It also said the UK was considering India's request to extradite Modi, a diamantaire accused in the USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank scam.
MEA Spokesperson Ra
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Sat, 09 Mar 2019 18:41:30
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to tell the nation that it was the BJP government which released terror outfit JeM chief Masood Azhar from an Indian jail.
Addressing a public rally at Haveri in north Karnataka, Rahul said, "Let Modi make me understand who sent Masood Azhar from Indian jail to Pakistan."
The Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) had claimed respons
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Sat, 09 Mar 2019 13:40:09
Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Saturday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sought early release of Rs 2,064.30 crore funds to provide relief to drought-hit farmers in the ongoing rabi season, an official statement said.
Kumaraswamy informed Modi that the state faced drought situation during this year's kharif season as well but the financial assistance sanctioned by the central g
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Sat, 09 Mar 2019 13:33:11
India on Saturday said its non-military strike on JeM camp in Pakistan achieved its desired objective and demonstrated the country's firm resolve to take decisive action against cross border terrorism.
Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar, at a media briefing, also said that an Indian Air Force MiG-21 Bison, piloted by Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, shot down a Pakista
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Sat, 09 Mar 2019 13:27:19
Congress president Rahul Gandhi Saturday assured a group of traditional fishermen in Goa that if his party was voted to power at the Centre this year, a separate Union ministry would be created for fisheries.
Gandhi, who arrived in Goa on Friday, held series of meetings here on Saturday with the people dependent on mining, traditional fishermen, environmentalists opposing a recent amendment to
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Sat, 09 Mar 2019 12:23:08
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday hit out at the Centre over alleged lack of job creation, saying the three main issues in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls would be jobs, jobs and jobs.
"What is worse? Not creating jobs or lying about creation of jobs?" Chidambaram asked in a tweet, alleging that the National Democratic Alliance government was guilty of both. "The top three issues i
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Sat, 09 Mar 2019 12:20:46
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan today said no terror group would be allowed to operate on Pakistani soil and carry out attacks abroad, days after his government began a crackdown against terror organisations.
"This government will not allow Pakistan's land to be used for any kind of outside terrorism," Imran Khan said while addressing a public rally in southern Pakistan.
"We will not all
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