KOLKATA: Polls-related violence in India's West Bengal has resulted in the tragic loss of at least 10 lives over the weekend, disrupting the ongoing election in the state where Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party aims to clinch power following their defeat in 2021. As a result
NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON: India’s multi-billion-dollar purchases of US arms are less about shifting its reliance on Russian defence equipment and moving towards the West – it's more about developing its own domestic weapons industry, security officials and analysts say. India is the world's biggest arms importer but
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has framed charges against six persons for allegedly burning a Muslim man alive during the February 2020 violence in the city, PTI reported. Communal violence had broken out in North East Delhi between February 23 and February 26, 2020, as supporters
NEW DELHI: At least 22 people were reported dead as the torrential monsoon rains lashed northern India, causing landslides and flash floods in the region, authorities and local media said on Monday. New Delhi schools were closed considering the threat posed by the heavy rains, while
BENGALURU: India's inflation likely snapped a four-month decline in June as food prices surged, a Reuters poll of economists found, making a cut in interest rates unlikely any time soon, while the Reserve Bank of India is also expected to resist pressure to raise rates. "We
NEW DELHI: In a declaration issued at the end of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation leaders’ summit, India once again refused to support China’s Belt and Road Initiative, PTI reported. The Belt and Road Initiative is a multitrillion-dollar infrastructure scheme launched in 2013 by President Xi Jinping
WASHINGTON: A senior U.S. diplomat will travel to India in the coming days and engage with its civil society over free speech and marginalization of minorities, after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent U.S. visit when he denied that abuse of religious minorities existed in
MADHYA PRADESH: Two Dalit men were assaulted in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district on the suspicion that they had molested some girls, PTI reported. The incident occurred on June 30 in Warkhadi in the Narwar area of Shivpuri. According to the police, the men were beaten and
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that the Indian government has urged Western countries not to give space to Khalistani elements, PTI reported. “We have requested our partner countries like Canada, the US, the UK and Australia, where sometimes Khalistani activities happen, to
ISLAMABAD: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter held a reception at its office in Islamabad in the honour of the leaders of the Kashmir Movement in UK, Europe, Spain and Scotland, in which the speakers demanded of the UN to