China rejects report of planned tunnel to divert Brahmaputra waters
China denied a media report on Tuesday as “false and untrue” after it said Beijing was planning to build a 1,000-km long tunnel to divert water from the Brahmaputra river in Tibet close to Arunachal Pradesh to the parched Xinjiang region. South China Morning post, based in Hong-Kong, on Monday reported that engineers in China […]
Dhumal to be BJP’s CM candidate in Himachal
October 31, 2017 NEW DELHI: The BJP on Tuesday named Prem Kumar Dhumal as the party’s chief ministerial face for the upcoming assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh. Party chief Amit Shah made the announcement at a public meeting, thus ending speculation over the party’s choice for the top post. “The BJP is going to fight the Himachal Pradesh assembly […]
PM flags off ‘Run for Unity’, slams Cong for ignoring Patel
October 31, 2017 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flagged off the ‘Run for Unity’ paying rich tributes to country’s first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and slammed efforts made to undermine his contributions in nation building. “People tried to ensure the contribution of Sardar Patel is forgotten. However, the youth of India respects […]
India tops list of new TB cases in 2016: WHO
Oct 31, 2017, New Delhi: India topped the list of seven countries, accounting for 64 percent of the 10.4 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases worldwide in 2016, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday. India was followed by Indonesia, China, Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria and South Africa, according to a Global TB […]
Amit Shah asks Congress to clarify stand on Kashmir separatists, Rohingyas.
BJP national president Amit Shah, slammed Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi and said that they should clarify the party’s stand on separatists in Kashmir and the illegal migration of Rohingyas.Amit shah has started his five-day tour to Himachal on Monday, Addressing an election rally at Banikhet of Dalhousie asssembly segment in Chamba […]
Y.C Modi new NIA Chief.
Senior IPS officer Y.C. Modi, who was part of a Supreme Court-appointed team that probed the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, on Monday took over as NIA chief, succeeding Sharad Kumar. In an official statement, the counter terror probe agency said, Yogesh Chander Modi, a 1984 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre, took over as Director […]
Connectivity should be open, equitable: India on Belt and Road project
Oct 28, 2017 New Delhi: A day after China said that it welcomes other countries including India to join its ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative, which includes the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the government on Friday said connectivity has to be open and equitable. “Though India supports connectivity, it has to be open and equitable,” […]
BJP erupts over Shiv Sena’s praise for Rahul Gandhi
Oct 28, 2017 New Delhi: At a time when the entire saffron machinery has been unleashed to corner the Congress, the Shiv Sena’s move to hail Rahul Gandhi has upset the BJP and the Sangh Parivar. While Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis cautioned it’s oldest ally, Bharatiya Janata Party top leaders in Delhi have begun to […]
Hindustan is a country of Hindus but doesn’t exclude others: RSS chief
October 28, 2017 Hindustan is a country of “Hindus”, but it does not mean that it does not belong to “others”, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has said. Addressing a gathering of college-going RSS volunteers in Indore on Friday, he said the government alone cannot bring development, and that it needed changes in the […]
India and the US ask Pak to dismantle terror infrastructure
New Delhi, Oct 25 (PTI) In a blunt message, India and the United States today asked Pakistan to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure operating from its soil, asserting that terror havens inside that country would not be tolerated. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, after holding wide-ranging talks here, said Islamabad […]
