India

New Delhi, Apr 12: Union Minister General VK Singh today alleged that an "insidious campaign" is being run against him by a section of media, at the behest of the arms lobby that is "working overtime" to subdue him, and that he has briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi about it. "It is only an insidious campaign in which the arms lobby is working overtime. They were not able to subdue me when I was

Paris, Apr 12: In a scathing attack on previous UPA government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that it had allocated coal blocks like one gives away a pen or a handkerchief, resulting in loss of lakhs of crores of rupees. "You must have heard about coal (block allocations)...204 coal blocks were given away just like that...Like someone comes to meet you and you give him your pen, or you

New Delhi, Apr 12: BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlala Nehru over the reported revelations that successive Congress governments had snooped on family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose for 20 years after independence. Swamy took to microblogging website Twitter to show his distress saying self-interest is uppermost for the

Paris, Apr 12: India and France have agreed that a Joint Working Group (JWG) on counter-terrorism will meet and formulate the modalities of greater cooperation on the matter, said the Ministry of External Affairs. "What has been agreed to is that as a first step a Joint Working Group on counter-terrorism will meet forthwith and they will try and work out what will be the modalities of greater

Panaji, April 11: The deal struck with France for purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets will bring some relief to the Indian Air Force into which they will be inducted within two years, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said today. He described as "great" India's decision to buy these fighters after talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande in Paris yesterday

France, Apr 11: India will buy 36 Rafale fighter jets in flyaway condition from France "as soon as possible" after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande on Friday night agreed to conclude an Inter-Governmental Agreement bypassing the protracted negotiations for purchase of 126 such jets. Taking Indo-French strategic relationship to a new level Modi and Hollande also

New Delhi, April 10: India has ended its massive evacuation efforts of its nationals in Yemen, pulling out 5,600 people, including 4,640 Indians and 960 nationals from 41 countries, the government said. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted: "The evacuation operation from Yemen is over. General V.K. Singh is returning tonight. We are closing our Embassy there." Earlier the external

Chennai, Apr 9: The Madras High Court today directed that bodies of six persons, gunned down in an encounter in the Seshachalam forests in Andhra Pradesh, be preserved until tomorrow when it will take up the matter. The bodies would be preserved in a mortuary in Thiruvannamalai District Headquarters government hospital, about 170 km from here. The court's direction was in response to a petition

Lahore, Apr 9: A Pakistani court today suspended the Punjab government's detention order against 2008 Mumbai attack accused and LeT operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi under a public security act and ordered his immediate release. Justice Muhammad Anwarul Haq of Lahore High Court suspended the detention of 55-year-old Lakhvi under Maintenance of Public Order after the government failed to

Mumbai, Apr 9: The Shiv Sena staged a noisy protest on Thursday outside celebrity author Shobhaa De's residence, after she attacked a move to force multiplexes to show Marathi movies in the prime time slot. Carrying banners as well as 'vada-pav' and 'misal', the Sainkis shouted slogans against De.The protesters condemned De's comments opposing the Bharatiya Janata Party-Sena government's diktat to