[ad_1] Amit Shah NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday defended the naming of “Operation Mahadev,” rejecting opposition criticism that the name is “religiously motivated.” Shah’s remarks came a day after senior Congress leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan accused the BJP of using religion to name military operations. Chavan alleged…
[ad_1] Union home minister Amit Shah NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah responded to the opposition’s criticism of the government over the Pahalgam terrorist attack during the Operation Sindoor debate on Wednesday. As Amit Shah rose to speak, the INDIA bloc staged a walkout from the Upper House, protesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s absence…
[ad_1] India-UAE officials signing the agreement New Delhi: India and the UAE on Wednesday decided to further strengthen their bilateral defence ties, including maritime security collaboration through real-time information sharing, joint manufacturing initiatives and enhancing military training cooperation.The two countries agreed to elevate their defence ties to match the growing momentum in areas such as…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The BJP on Wednesday launched a sharp counterattack in the Lok Sabha against leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi’s criticism of the Modi government’s handling of Operation Sindoor. Citing historical records, BJP MPs Anurag Thakur and Nishikant Dubey alleged that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had sought US intervention to halt the 1971…
[ad_1] S Jaishankar and Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: In a fiery address in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, external affairs minister S Jaishankar launched a stinging, thinly veiled attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Jaishankar branded him a “China-guru” and accused him of acquiring his knowledge of Beijing through “Olympic invites and private tuitions from…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan on Wednesday questioned the government’s narrative around the Pahalgam terror attack, saying it sounded more like “fiction” than fact.“It feels strange to say this because whatever happened … it felt like something out of a book or a film … people came like this, killed so many…
[ad_1] Buddha’s Piprahwa relics (X/@narendramodi) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Wednesday that the sacred Piprahwa relics of Lord Buddha have returned to India after 127 years. He noted that although the relics were discovered in 1898, they were taken out of the country during the colonial era. In a post on X,…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday addressed the Rajya Sabha on Operation Sindoor, reaffirming the Centre’s position on its response following the Pahalgam terror attack. He outlined the government’s decisive actions, including diplomatic steps like the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty and the launch of Operation Sindoor, as part of…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its decision regarding Justice Yashwant Varma’s challenge to an in-house inquiry panel’s report that found him culpable in the cash discovery matter.The bench, comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and A G Masih, said that the Chief Justice of India has the authority to inform the president and…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Resistance Front (TRF), which carried out the Pahalgam attack in Jammu and Kashmir, was mentioned in a recent Monitoring Team’s report under the UN Security Council 1267 Sanctions Committee.According to government sources, the report explicitly recorded the involvement of The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy outfit of LeT, in the Pahalgam…