Amreli: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, clarifying on Somnath Temple register controversy, has said he and his family members are “Shiv bhakts” (devotees of Lord Shiva), and he does not use his faith for political mileage.Gandhi also said that he did not sign on the (non-Hindu) register. “I didn’t sign on the register… BJP’s people had done […]
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday lashed out at former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf‘s statement backing terror outfits like the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD).Speaking to ANI, BJP leader Nalin Kohli said that Musharraf is making such statements as he knows that Pakistan is now being controlled by such terror outfit. “There is no doubt or […]
Hyderabad: Ivanka Trump described the hurdles faced by women during a speech at a business conference in India, which is treating her trip like a royal visit.But her solo outing also highlighted questions about whether her message of empowering poor women matches her actions. Trump’s speech on Tuesday at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in the southern […]
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], Nov 28 (ANI): Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday raked up a 2010 incident in which Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi had termed ‘Hindu terror’ as a threat to the nation instead of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief and 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind, Hafiz Saeed.Prasad’s latest salvo comes in response to Rahul Gandhi‘s ‘hugplomacy’ jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi. […]
New Delhi:Ivanka Trump, the advisor and daughter of US President Donald Trump, on Tuesday arrived in Hyderabad to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit co-hosted by India and America.Amid tight security, she was welcomed by Indian ambassador to US Navtej Sarna and US ambassador to India Kenneth Juster with other senior officials […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hailed as “historic” the Supreme Court ruling on triple talaq and said it grants equality to Muslim women. “Judgment … is historic. It grants equality to Muslim women and is a powerful measure for women empowerment,” Modi tweeted. The Supreme Court by a 3:2 majority judgment held […]
Varanasi: Taking the battle to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s turf, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today led a massive roadshow here kicking off the party’s campaign for the 2017 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh where it is out of power for nearly three decades. 69-year-old Gandhi, however, had to cut short the roadshow towards the fag […]
Lucknow/New Delhi: Senior SP leader and Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan has kicked up a controversy by suggesting that the Bulandshahr highway gangrape could be an outcome of a political conspiracy against the ruling party, drawing condemnation from rival parties. Khan termed the gangrape of a 13-year-old girl and her mother by a group of […]
Tokyo: Beijing risks triggering unintended conflict with Asian rivals through its aggressive stance in maritime disputes, Japan warned today in an annual security assessment. China’s sweeping claims over the strategic South China Sea, where it has built a series of artificial islands capable of supporting military operations despite overlapping claims from other nations, have stoked […]
New Delhi: A large number of Indian workers in Saudi Arabia who have lost their jobs and cannot even buy food due to severe financial hardship will be brought back home, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said, asserting that not one of them will go hungry. In a statement in Parliament amid concerns by members […]