India

Islamabad, May 18: Pakistan does not accept the International Court of Justice's jurisdiction in matters related to national security, its Foreign Office said today after the UN court stayed the execution of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav. Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria also hit out at India, saying the country has been "trying to hide its real face" by taking the case of Jadhav to ICJ

New Delhi, May 18: Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan was today given additional charge of Environment Ministry, due to sudden demise of Anil Madhav Dave. President Pranab Mukherjee, as advised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has directed that Harsh Vardhan, Cabinet Minister shall be assigned the charge of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, in addition to his

New Delhi, May 18: Environment Minister Anil Dave has died at 60. Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that he was "absolutely shocked" and described Mr Dave's death as a "personal loss". He wrote, "I was with Anil Madhav Dave ji till late last evening, discussing key policy issues." The prime minister also said Mr Dave would be remembered as a devoted public servant and was tremendously

Jammu, May 18: The family of Subedar Paramjit Singh, one of the two Indian soldiers who were beheaded this month while patrolling the de facto border between India and Pakistan, wanted to see him one more time before consigning his body to the flames. But before they could open the coffin, Army officials stopped them, said Prabhjot Singh, the dead man’s brother-in-law. “The Army people told us the

Chandigarh, May 17: At the ripe old age of 82, former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala has passed his higher secondary examination in the first division, while serving out a 10 year sentence in Delhi's Tihar jail. Chautala, who was convicted in the teachers' recruitment scam case, is now planning to pursue a BA course, his younger son and senior INLD leader Abhay Singh Chautala said here

New Delhi, May 17: Continuing his tirade against former finance minister P. Chidambaram, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday termed the former as the personal 'money launderer' for Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Reiterating his statement, Swamy said the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approvals were given by Chidambaram to benefit his son. "As far as

Kolkata, May 17: Trinamool Congress won four out of the seven Bengal towns that had gone into municipal election last Sunday and created history by taking control of a Mirik Municipality in the hills and becoming the first political mainstream political party from the plains to win an election in the last three decades. Trinamool Congress won Pujali in south 24 parganas, Domkal in Murshidabad

Jammu, May 17: Pakistan Rangers violated the ceasefire again today by firing on forward posts along the LoC in Balakote sector of Jammu of Kashmir. "Pakistan army resorted to firing on forward posts along the LoC in Balakote sector from 0050 hours today," a defence spokesman said. Pakistan troops also fired on forward posts and civilian areas last night along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri

New Delhi, May 16: The government on Tuesday added a new dimension to its fight against black money in the country as it launched a website ' Operation Clean Money '. "The new website will help honest tax payers," Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said inaugurating the website. Jaitley warned those dealing in black money and said "It is no longer safe to deal with excessive cash, tax-evaded

New Delhi, May 16: The Congress today said that none of its leaders or that of the opposition would be cowed down by the politics of "revenge and vendetta" which had "become the DNA of this BJP government". The party accused the BJP of being blinded by revenge to target its opponents and said that it would continue to expose the saffron party before the people. The remarks came after government