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Uttar Pradesh: Yogi Adityanath governmen...

Uttar Pradesh: Yogi Adityanath government declares Saturday as ‘no sc...

Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Dinesh Sharma after a meeting on Friday decided to declare Saturday as no school bag day. Trying to take load off students, BJP government in Uttar Pradesh has decided to declare Saturdays as “no school bag day” in all government run primary... read more »

Modi breaks new ground by meeting Indian...

Modi breaks new ground by meeting Indian Tamils in Sri Lanka

Modi, after participating in the UN Vesak Day celebrations in Colombo, also travelled to Dickoya in the island’s central hills, the tea country, where Tamil people of Indian origin are concentrated. India’s neighbourhood diplomacy is often accused of being ham-handed. Whether it is in dealing... read more »

Kapil Mishra warns of ‘new drama&#...

Kapil Mishra warns of ‘new drama’ by AAP for distraction

NEW DELHI: On the fourth day of his hunger strike, sacked minister Kapil Mishra on Saturday warned that the AAP will resort to “new drama” to distract attention from the “foreign trips controversy”. “Fourth day of satyagraha – What new drama will be done to... read more »

TMC leader killed in Odisha’s Baha...

TMC leader killed in Odisha’s Baharampur

BAHARMPUR: A Trinamool Congress leader, Ashadul Sheikh was killed in Murshidabad district after miscreants hurled bombs and shot him four times, the police said today. The incident happened at Bhakuri under the jurisdiction of Baharampur police station at 9 pm yesterday. The police today arrested... read more »

Long road ahead for India on Global Entry

With the clock counting down the final days before U.S. President Barack Obama takes off on Air Force One for New Delhi to join India’s Republic Day celebrations as Chief Guest, officials... read more »

Obama visit will tap into “unfulfilled” bilateral potential

Days ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama arriving in India senior administration officials here characterised the bilateral relationship as having reached a “seminal moment,” even as... read more »

Saudi King Abdullah passes away

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, the powerful U.S. ally who joined Washington’s fight against al-Qaeda and sought to modernise the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom with incremental but... read more »

Who is Saudi’s new king?

The new king of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, served as the Governor of capital Riyadh for nearly 50 years. He is known to be a mediator of disputes within the sprawling... read more »

Kerry likens Kim Jong Un to Saddam Hussein

Kerry facing summons on lawsuit for designating RSS

A U.S. court has issued a summons to Secretary of State John Kerry calling for his response within 60 days to a lawsuit demanding that Indian party Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) be designated a... read more »