Representative photos An Indian national was reportedly killed on Wednesday when an Iranian suicide ship attacked a US oil tanker near Iraq. The remaining 27 crew members were rescued and flown to Basra.The incident occurred when the US-owned, Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker Safesea Vishnu was attacked at the port of Khor Al Zubair in Iraqi … Read more
New Delhi: Indian cricketer Hardik Pandya has been slapped with a complaint after he disrespected the national flag during India’s celebrations following their ICC Men’s T20 World Cup victory. The complaint, filed by advocate Wajid Khan Bidkar of Shivaji Nagar police station, alleged that the all-rounder insulted the tricolor during the team’s on-field celebrations after … Read more
Trichy: Prime Minister Narendra Modi The NDA on Wednesday was positioned as a credible alternative to the Dravida Munnetra Kazagam in Tamil Nadu and appealed to the people to support the alliance to bring transparent governance and faster development to the state.Addressing an NDA rally in Trichy, Modi said the upcoming elections are the most … Read more
Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on March 13 distribute land deeds to thousands of tea workers in Assam, giving them shares in the plantations where they have lived and worked for two centuries since British planters brought them from their villages in Chota Nagpur district, Bihar and Bengal.Nearly 350,000 families in 825 tea estates … Read more
Srinagar: A 63-year-old man arrested for trying to shoot former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah at a wedding in Jammu has said in a viral video that he had been planning to assassinate the National Conference president for the past two decades. Police have not confirmed this claim.“I have been trying to kill … Read more
Jammu/SRINAGAR: National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah and J&K deputy chief minister Surinder Chaudhry escaped injury on Wednesday night when a gunman barged into a wedding venue in Greater Kailash in Jammu and opened fire before being overpowered.“We are all safe, but now the onus is on the police to explain how it happened,” Chaudhry told … Read more
Kochi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inked projects worth nearly Rs 11,000 crore in Kerala besides officially launching the NDA campaign during his visit to the state.He laid the foundation stone of a polypropylene unit worth over Rs 5,500 crore at BPCL’s Kochi refinery, launched two major road projects costing over Rs 2,000 crore … Read more
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar discussed the situation in the Strait of Hormuz in a telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Saeed Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday evening. While Jaishankar stressed the need for safe merchant shipping, an Iranian press release said they discussed “the consequences of the military aggression of the US and … Read more
Amid the escalating conflict in West Asia, EAM S Jaishankar on Wednesday spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and EU foreign policy chief Kaya Karas. He also had a similar conversation with his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot.Jaishankar said on theAccording to Russian reports, the ministers expressed support for the early normalization of the situation … Read more
new delhi: congress.com Rahul Gandhi On Wednesday it was said that “Prime Minister Narendra Modi compromised,” and said he was prevented from speaking during the debate on the motion of thanks because he wanted to raise issues of vital importance to the people. Rahul claimed that this was the first time that an opposition leader … Read more