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SRINAGAR: Ladakh tourism numbers hit a 121 per cent increase in May this year, the start of the region’s peak tourism season, compared to May last year. A statement issued by the Ladakh administration on Saturday states that foreign tourist arrivals also rose by more than 15%, with most tourists from Thailand, Vietnam and the…
Nepal does not carry any old baggage against India and is determined to build a genuinely transformative relationship with its “close neighbor and most important partner,” said Nepal foreign minister Shisir Khanal as he met his counterpart S Jaishankar on Saturday, following another round of diplomatic strife over the border dispute.Welcoming Khanal, Jaishankar said earlier…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the INDIA bloc meeting on Monday, CPI(M) general secretary MA Baby, in a sharply worded letter to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, has raised the allegations by Rahul Gandhi and other senior leaders during the Kerala polls that CPI(M) and the BJP had struck a deal and their call for ED action…
NEW DELHI: Cricketer-turned politician Yusuf Pathan on Saturday dismissed reports claiming that the TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee either directly or through Sourav Ganguly had asked him to resign from his Lok Sabha seat to pave the way for her to contest a by-election.In a video shared on social media, Pathan termed the reports “completely false”…
NEW DELHI: India and Nepal share a “very special relationship” and there is now an opportunity to “decisively shift the trajectory” of bilateral engagement to realise its full potential, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday during talks with Nepal foreign minister Shisir Khanal in New Delhi.In his opening remarks, Jaishankar underlined the depth…
NEW DELHI: Hundreds of supporters of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) gathered for the first time at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Saturday, taking the social media campaign off screens and into its biggest real-world test.The participants mostly students, young professionals, and some schoolchildren accompanied by parents, assembled in the city’s designated protest zone wearing cockroach…
Arrested ex-TMC MLA Saokat Molla key conspirator behind Bhangar blast case: NIA (Image source: ANI on left) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has identified arrested former Trinamool Congress MLA Saokat Molla as a key conspirator in the Bhangar bomb blast case in West Bengal.Molla was arrested from South 24 Parganas district after an intensive search…
Cockroach Janta Party: Gen Z awakening or AAP 2.0? The sudden rise of the Cockroach Janta Party has led many to question whether it is Aam Aadmi Party 2.0. But there are issues that matter to the younger generation—the Gen Z—such as the recent NEET paper leak and the CBSE online marking mess. Many NEET…
NEW DELHI: The West Bengal BJP has begun preparations to secure Geographical Indication (GI) tags for several traditional sweets of the state that still lack recognition, aiming to promote them at national and international levels while also planning to set up ‘Misthi Hubs’ (Sweet Hubs) for organised production and export.A GI tag is a sign…
File pics of Sourav, Mamata and Yusuf Former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly has dismissed reports claiming that he contacted Yusuf Pathan on behalf of Mamata Banerjee and asked him to resign from his elected post to facilitate her contesting a by-election.In a statement, Ganguly said allegations that he had acted as an intermediary for…
