Imphal: Several houses were set on fire in an abandoned village in Manipur's Kamjong district Wednesday morning, triggering fresh tensions. Khoikai Kuki village, located near Chassad village, was set ablaze by suspected militants around 5.30 am, police said. The village had been deserted after residents...
Mumbai: The accused in the firing case involving actor Tiger Shroff had reportedly conducted reconnaissance of the residences of several celebrities, including Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan, before the attack, according to sources in the Mumbai Crime Branch. The shooters were reportedly instructed to target...
Washington: The Trump administration said that more than three million migrants have left the United States since President Donald Trump returned to office, as the White House unveiled a sweeping assessment of its immigration crackdown, including a sharp decline in border crossings, mass deportations and...
Milan: Some supermarket shelves and gas station pumps were empty in the southern city of Naples due to a weeklong protest by truck drivers against the high cost of diesel driven up by the Iran war. Protesters blocked the loading and unloading of fresh food...
Washington: The United States has launched a $25 million whistleblower programme offering rewards of up to $30,000 to people whose information helps federal prosecutors bring criminal fraud charges, as the Trump administration steps up efforts to detect misuse of taxpayer money. The Justice Department announced...
United Nations: India has asserted that human rights should not be used as an instrument of political pressure or selective targeting of countries, as it opposed attempts to turn allegations and incomplete statistics into a "negative characterisation" of the world's largest democracy. "India engages with...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday paid tributes to the brave police personnel who laid down their lives in the line of duty on the occasion of Police Commemoration Day. He said it is an occasion to express the deepest gratitude to the country's...
Washington: The US and India are "pretty close" to a trade deal, which will differ significantly from earlier pacts, US President Donald Trump said here. Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office Tuesday, Trump said India and the US were pretty close to making a...
Chandigarh: The AAP Sunday claimed that Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann was detained for three hours at the Delhi airport upon his return from Paris and fined Rs 50,000, with officials citing "tremendous pressure from above". The party did not say why Mann was detained...
Mumbai/New Delhi: India and the US moved to expand energy and defence cooperation Tuesday despite ongoing friction in their relations, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged New Delhi to scale up energy trade and increase the purchase of American technologies and systems. External Affairs...
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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