Modi, Suga agree to promote defence, security cooperation

Modi, Suga agree to promote defence, security cooperation

Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Yoshihide Suga have agreed to promote defence and security cooperation between India and Japan when they met in Washington on the eve of the Quad Summit that brings together the four major democracies of the Indo-Pacific region. A readout of their meeting on Thursday issued by India’s Ministry of External […]

Mamata in hospital with plaster cast on her leg

Mamata in hospital with plaster cast on her leg

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was injured during her campaigning in Nandigram, was seen with a plastered leg lying in a Kolkata hospital after Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, who is also her nephew, shared the picture on Twitter. “BJP4Bengal Brace yourselves to see the power of people of BENGAL on Sunday, May 2nd. […]

BJP MP Nand Kumar Singh Chauhan passes away

BJP MP Nand Kumar Singh Chauhan passes away

Nand Kumar Singh Chauhan, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa passed away Tuesday morning. He was 68. Chauhan was suffering from Covid-19 infection and was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Bhopal. After his condition deteriorated, he was shifted to the Medanta hospital in Gurugram and was on ventilator support for the […]

FIR against 8 Twitter handles in Unnao case

FIR against 8 Twitter handles in Unnao case

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has started cracking down on social media ‘offenders’ in a big way. The Unnao police, on Sunday, lodged an FIR against eight Twitter handles and its users, including @themojostory run by senior journalist Barkha Dutt, on charges of spreading “misleading information” in connection with the recovery of the […]

SC unhappy with pendency of convict’s pardon plea

SC unhappy with pendency of convict’s pardon plea

 The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed its dissatisfaction over the pendency of pardon plea of a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case for more than two years with the Tamil Nadu Governor. A bench comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Ajay Rastogi and Hemant Gupta asked Additional Advocate General for Tamil Nadu Balaji Srinivasan, why […]

Twenty years of Narendra Modi’s leadership

Twenty years of Narendra Modi’s leadership

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s journey as head of an elected government started on this day 20 years ago. It was a very difficult time for Gujarat, when the earthquake in Bhuj had brought death and destruction. In such a difficult situation, Narendra Modi took the reins in his hands. Since the day he took the […]

Art scholar Kapila Vatsyayan passes away at 92

Art scholar Kapila Vatsyayan passes away at 92

Kapila Vatsyayan, Member of Parliament, a major scholar of art, architecture, Indian classical dance and Founding Director of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, passed away at the age of 92 at her home in New Delhi on Wednesday. Recipient of the Padma Vibhushan honour (2011), the scholar, who authored around 20 books […]

UP BJP MLA wants Kangana’s security upgraded, dismissal of Maha govt

UP BJP MLA wants Kangana’s security upgraded, dismissal of Maha govt

Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA, Nand Kishore Gurjar, has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, asking him to upgrade actor Kangana Ranaut’s security to ‘Z’ plus category and to dismiss the Shiv Sena led-coalition government in Maharashtra for ‘illegally’ demolishing the actor’s office in Mumbai. The BJP MLA from the Loni Assembly […]