Washington: Indian green-card holders, who form the second-largest group of new American citizens, are facing a steady slowdown in US citizenship approvals, with the backlog of pending applications crossing 813,000 in August, according to official data reviewed by the media. US Citizenship and Immigration Services...
United Nations: India has taken strong exception to a report by a UN monitor falsely projecting that wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is based in India and warned that such actions cause the organisation "tremendous harm". Raghoo Puri, a first secretary in India's UN Mission, Wednesday...
Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron has accused foreign leaders, including those "on the other side of the Atlantic", of attempting to exploit France's tense social climate for political gain following a weekend of violence and unrest. Protests in France over soaring living costs have attracted...
New Delhi: The Kuwait-flagged oil product tanker M/T Al Dasma, carrying 21 Indian seafarers, was struck by an unknown projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz. All crew members are safe, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal announced. The incident occurred Wednesday,...
Kolkata: A minor fire broke out at the hanging restaurant at Biswa Bangla Gate, one of the primary attractions of New Town, on the evening of Vijaya Dashami in West Bengal. According to eyewitnesses, panic spread on the streets below upon seeing flames and smoke...
New Delhi: The Congress Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the government over a purported photograph of Union minister Hardeep Puri with convicted American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that Modi-Shah's complete silence points to their criminal indifference towards the issue. Since earlier this year,...
Moscow: President Vladimir Putin agreed Wednesday to resume trilateral negotiations with Washington and Kyiv on ending the war in Ukraine, a Kremlin official said. The Russian leader has agreed in principle to resume the talks after November 10, Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told...
Kolkata: The West Bengal government Wednesday constituted a six-member special investigation team (SIT) to probe the October 17 stampede at Chorbagan Durga Puja pandal in north Kolkata in which 19 people were killed and 25 injured. The SIT, headed by retired judge Justice Anindita Roy...
Vijayawada: Filing of nominations for MPTC and ZPTC elections in Andhra Pradesh began on a violent note Wednesday with attacks on candidates and leaders of the opposition YSR Congress Party, including Former Deputy Chief Minister K. Narayana Swamy. YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) blamed Telugu Desam...
New Delhi: Labelling 'experts' from the United Nations (UN) as an "oxymoron", US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Wednesday called the recent demonstrations by Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) and opposition parties against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar as India's "domestic matter". Currently visiting India,...
The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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By Dilip Cherian The litany of extensions continues. The latest is Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, whose tenure the Modi...
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The angry young generation is rising in protest in India, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland and Serbia, to name a...
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