New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, slammed Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra for his “dogs bark or chase the car” remark and asked for how long Prime Minister Narendra Modi will continue to save “tainted ministers”. Facing demands for his resignation over the alleged involvement
Colombo: The Sri Lankan Navy has arrested 10 Indian fishermen and seized their trawlers for allegedly poaching in the country’s territorial waters, an official statement said. The fishermen were arrested on Monday off the northeastern coast of Mullaithivu. A Navy fast attack craft had given chase
New Delhi: Human rights abuses have continued unabated in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir since it was split into two Union Territories after the Centre scrapped its special status under Article 370 of the Constitution on August 5, 2019, a forum said in
New Delhi: In 11 states and union territories of India, women have more sexual partners than men, showed the National Family Health Survey (NFHS). India Today reported that the survey covered 707 districts across India and over 100,000 women and 100,000 men participated in it. The NFHS
New Delhi: The Congress party on Wednesday expressed concern about Adani Enterprises’ indirect acquisition of stake in news channel NDTV. Without naming the Adani Group or the news channel, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the development is a brazen move to control and stifle any
London: The number of migrants arriving in Britain in small boats hit a record for a single day on Monday, as the rise in dangerous crossings over the English Channel continues despite the government’s plans to deport those arriving illegally to Rwanda. Britain’s Ministry of Defense
Yangoon: An appeal to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is “well short of needs,” the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday, as refugees called on donors not to forget the crisis ahead of the fifth anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar. More than a
Washington: Iran has dropped some of its main demands on resurrecting a deal to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program, including its insistence that international inspectors close some probes of its atomic program, bringing the possibility of an agreement closer, a senior U.S. official told Reuters. The
Brussels: A severe drought hitting swathes of Europe is "worsening" and, while rain is helping some regions, accompanying thunderstorms are causing their own damage, EU researchers said in a report. The latest monthly analysis by the European Union s Global Drought Observatory (GDO) highlighted the risk
New Delhi: The Indian Air Force said on Tuesday the government had sacked three officers for accidentally firing a missile into Pakistan in March, an incident that the two nuclear-armed rivals handled calmly as there were no casualties. Military experts have in the past warned of