Dattatreya Hosabale (File photo) NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Tuesday described Pakistan as a “pinprick”, but said the doors for dialogue with the neighbouring country “should not be closed.”RSS is the ideological mentor of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Hosabale is the Sangh’s number two leader after RSS…
Why ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ may not become reality NEW DELHI: “Congress-mukt Bharat banana hai …” When Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared this at a BJP national executive meeting in Goa in June 2013, it was meant to be a political slogan to galvanize party cadres for the 2014 Lok Sabha challenge. After all, the Congress then…
NEW DELHI: The central government is weighing emergency measures to bolster its foreign-exchange reserves amid the economic fallout from the US-Israel-Iran war, with officials considering steps such as raising fuel prices and restricting non-essential imports, including gold and electronic goods, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar with the matter.The report said that officials from the Prime…
DHAKA: Bangladesh cannot be intimidated with “barbed wire”, PM Tarique Rahman’s foreign affairs adviser Humaiun Kobir said Monday as the new BJP govt in West Bengal in its first cabinet meeting decided to transfer land to Border Security Force (BSF) for fencing the border with Bangladesh.Targetting Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari, he said election rhetoric and…
File photo NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday asked former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to file a fresh plea related to victory margin being less than deletion of votes in the Speical Intensive Reivison (SIR), which was one of the burning poll planks of the outsed TMC.A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant…
NEW DELHI: TVK chief Vijay on Sunday took oath as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu in a massive display of starpower, with thousands attending Thalapathy’s swearing in. However, what stood out at the event was the commencement of the programme with Vande Mataram and not with the state’s official song Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu, which…
M Veerapandiyan and Vijay NEW DELHI: CPI state secretary M Veerapandiyan on Sunday said that the ‘Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu’ (state song of Tamil Nadu) must be accorded the foremost place in the protocol of government ceremonies.In a letter issued after the swearing-in ceremony of Tamil Nadu chief minister Vijay, Veerapandiyan objected to the order in…
BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s aide, Chandranath Rath, was shot dead in a meticulously planned ambush near Kolkata airport. NEW DELHI: A fake number plate, Glock 47X pistols, multiple bike-borne professional shooters, and a point-blank ambush near Kolkata airport — chilling new details have emerged in the killing of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s close aide Chandranath…
M K Stalin CHENNAI: The unthinkable in Tamil Nadu politics turned probable on Thursday when DMK president M K Stalin reportedly told his party MLAs that AIADMK had been seeking his support to form the govt and checkmate TVK president C Joseph Vijay from becoming chief minister.The legislators left the decision to Stalin, multiple sources…
TMC MP Mahua Moitra (File photo/PTI) NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra on Thursday shared a video showing a group of men raising anti-TMC slogans against her aboard a flight and urged civil aviation minister K Ram Mohan Naidu to place them on the no-fly list.Moitra said someone forwarded her the video after…