Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was accorded a ceremonial welcome on Monday at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here. Prime Minister Narendra Modi received Turnbull. He was then accorded the ceremonial guard of honour. This is Turnbull’s first bilateral visit to India since he assumed office in September 2015. His predecessor, Tony Abbott had visited India in […]
Over two weeks after he was blacklisted and grounded by all airlines, Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad here on Monday morning took wings again on a Pune-New Delhi flight, authorities said. Reduced to train and road travel and avoiding the media glare till now, the Osmanabad MP took the Pune-New Delhi AI-852, which has now […]
In a major set back to Aam Aadmi Party government here, the Shunglu Committee formed by former Lt Governor Najeeb Jung to look into decisions taken by the government, has questioned several appointments made, including the appointment of Health Minister Satyendar Jain’s daughter Soumya Jain in Mohalla Clinic project. The committee reviewed 404 files of […]
By Bhanupriya Rao Padiganalam (Tamil Nadu) Married against her wishes at 11 to her dead sister’s husband, Sidhamallamma Kanchappa gave birth to her first child at home when she was 12. It was 1998, the child nearly died, and the doctors at the hospital chided her for marrying so young. That experience taught her the […]
The India-Malaysia bilateral trade dwindled to a little over $10 billion in the last fiscal and it is to reverse this fall that Prime Minister Najib Razak is here, a Malaysian Minister said on Monday. Razak is leading the largest ever delegation with 11 ministers, Malaysia’s Minister of International Trade and Industry Mustapa Mohamed said. […]
President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday visited the ruins of Vikramshila University, an ancient seat of Buddhist learning, in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district. Mukherjee reached Bhagalpur on Sunday evening. He began a three-day visit to West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar on April 1. The President also visited the university museum. Vikramshila was among the most important centres […]
Senior Delhi Congress member Ashok Kumar Walia on Monday offered to resign from the party as he was not happy with the ticket distribution for civic polls. A party source told IANS that Walia was unhappy with the ticket distribution for civic polls scheduled to be held on April 23. Walia was MLA from Laxminagar […]
The Gujarat government on Monday told the Supreme Court that the request of Director General of Police P.P. Pandey to step down will be accepted immediately. Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud were also told that the notification of three months extension granted to him till April 30 too would be resolved. […]
Positive domestic cues, coupled with a strong rupee and healthy buying in capital goods and consumer durables sectors, gave a fillip to the Indian equity markets during the mid-afternoon trade session on Monday. Both the key Indian indices touched new 52-week high levels during the intra-day trade. The NSE Nifty made a record high opening […]
Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was arrested early on Friday raising a possibility for her to serve jail term over corruption allegations, a media report said. A judge in the Seoul Central District Court said in a statement that Park’s major criminal allegations could be justified and concerns remained over a possibility of her […]