The main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Wednesday boycotted the Andhra Pradesh Assembly proceedings to protest the denial of opportunity to its leader N. Chandrababu Naidu to speak in the House. Holding placards and raising slogans, TDP legislators staged the protest in the ...
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday bid farewell to five of its members from Tamil Nadu who have completed six years of their term, with one of them, V. Maitreyan, breaking down while giving his farewell speech. The five retiring on July 24 are Maitreyan, D. Raja, K.R. Arjunan, R. ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre and others on a public suit seeking directions to curb illegal sand mining and for ensuring implementation of sustainable sand mining guidelines in the country. A bench headed by Justice S.A. Bobde also asked the Ministry of Environment, ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to allow state's independent MLAs -- R. Shankar and H. Nagesh -- to withdraw their plea seeking direction to the Assembly Speaker to conduct floor test in the House immediately. A bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, said it would only pass orders ...
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has acknowledged that some terrorists in Pakistan had fought in Kashmir while asserting that he had the army's support for disarming them and for overtures to India. Speaking at the US Institute of Peace in Washington on Tuesday, he tried to ...
Ever since Amit Shah took over as the Union Home Minister nearly two months back, the Centres policy on Jammu and Kashmir has become tougher, leading to expectations and speculation that there could be forward movement towards abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, which grants...
The BJP in Karnataka will elect its state President B.S. Yeddyurappa as its legislative party leader and stake claim to form government in the state following the exit of the 14-month-old JD-S-Congress coalition government on Tuesday, a party official said on Wednesday....
Set to be the new British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has a close India connection. His estranged wife Marina Wheeler, whom he married in 1993, is half Indian. ...
Moving swiftly to counter the diplomatic embarrassment caused by President Donald Trump's flub on Kashmir and assuage an upset New Delhi, the US administration clarified that Kashmir is very much a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan, even as US Democrats apologised to India's envoy for the US President's "amateurish claim" ab...
The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Wednesday took an early lead in the counting of votes for election to the Patkura Assembly constituency in Odisha's Kendrapara district. ...
