Congress CMs wary of sharing dais with PM Narendra Modi
NEW DELHI: Shaken by the booing of their Haryana counterpart Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday, Congress chief ministers are wary of sharing the dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in election-bound states, fearing that BJP would use these events to embarrass them by orchestrating... read more »
Tit-for-tat with Pakistan: Game theory suggests what Modi did was right
There was never any good reason for India to engage with Pakistan in the first place, because it is well-known that that country is only defined as “not-India”, and its army needs the raison d’etre of India-hatred to justify its existence. Many years ago, I pointed out in another article,... read more »
10 dead, 22 missing in Hiroshima landslide
TOKYO — Rain-sodden slopes collapsed in torrents of mud, rock and debris early Wednesday in the outskirts of Hiroshima, killing at least 10 people and leaving 22 missing, the government said. Video footage from the national broadcaster NHK showed rescue workers suspended by ropes from police... read more »
Islamabad on edge as Imran Khan, Qadri supporters reach Parliament
Pakistan protesters reached the Islamabad parliament building in the early hours of Wednesday morning in their bid to force Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign, but did not go inside. Reuters journalists saw protesters on their way to parliament wearing hard hats and tough leather gloves using... read more »
Libyan authorities propose early parliamentary election
Tripoli – Libyan electoral committee on Tuesday proposed an early general vote to solve the present crisis between the interim parliament and its attacker, retired Major General... read more »
Kolkata’s American Center Attack: Supreme Court Commutes Death Sentence of Two Convi...
Kolkata – Two men convicted for the 2002 attack on the American Center in Kolkata won’t hang, the Supreme Court ruled today. While commuting their death sentence, the court... read more »
Arvind Kejriwal Apologises For Delhi Exit, Says Polls Inevitable
New Delhi – Arvind Kejriwal, the chief of the Aam Aadmi Party, today said he had debated forming a government in Delhi again but realized that there was no option but fresh polls.... read more »
Foreign Media on Narendra Modi’s Emotional Speech
New Delhi – Narendra Modi, the son of a provincial tea seller, was overcome by emotion on Tuesday after members of his political group, the Bharatiya Janata Party, endorsed him as... read more »
Modi appointed PM, swearing-in on May 26
Narendra Modi, who steered the BJP and the NDA to a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha elections, was on Tuesday appointed Prime Minister. “I came to call on the President. The President has given... read more »
