Author: TNI Team

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Saturday reiterated that connectivity is the key to improving the ease of doing business and living. He was speaking during the third edition of Natural Allies in Development and Interdependence (NADI) in Guwahati. The conference was inaugurated by Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma with […]

  NEW DELHI: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted a massive drug trafficking network with the seizure of 34.89 kg of “high grade” heroin, and arrested nine accused including its kingpin, a Nigerian operating from Delhi. Acting on credible inputs, sleuths of the NCB in Bengaluru seized 7 kg of heroin, which was concealed […]

  NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Saturday slapped a fine of Rs 5 lakh on budget carrier IndiGo for denying boarding to a boy with special needs permission to fly. The DGCA in a statement said, “In the case involving a special child with reduced mobility, who along with the […]

How is the world responding to China’s newly unleashed Wolf Warrior diplomacy? To be honest, the West, which is just about waking up to this phenomenon now has so far been ‘shocked’ or ‘surprised’, but to the smaller and weaker neighbours of China, this nature of projection has resulted in a certain amount of stress […]

  CHENNAI: During his Chennai visit to lay the foundation stone for development projects, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday appeared going all-out to woo Tamils and assuage the perceived discontent among them against the BJP over the issues linked to their identity. In Chennai, PM Modi dedicated to the nation and laid the foundation […]

  NEW DELHI: Days after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared a state of emergency, ostensibly in response to the economic crisis owing to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó met External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar in New Delhi on Friday. “A real pleasure to welcome FM Péter Szijjártó of Hungary to […]

  NEW DELHI: Superstar Shahrukh Khan’s son Aryan, who was arrested on charges of “involvement in consumption, sale, and purchase of contraband”, has been given a clean chit in the high-profile cruise drugs case that hogged media headlines and brought Bollywood under close scrutiny in October last year. Aryan Khan was taken into custody by […]

  NEW DELHI: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval calls for an inclusive government in Afghanistan and to enhance the capability of the country to counter-terror and terror groups that pose a threat to regional peace and security. Doval was participating in a security dialogue on Afghanistan along with counterparts from Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, […]

NEW DELHI: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu will lead a high-level delegation from India on a three-nation eight-day state visit to Gabon, Senegal and Qatar from Monday, May 30. A slew of bilateral issues will be discussed during the three-nation tour of the Indian delegation, officials from the Ministry of External Affairs stated. “This will […]

NEW DELHI: Germany has decided to recognize WHO-listed Covaxin for travelling to Germany from June 1, German Ambassador to India Walter J Linder said on Thursday. The German Embassy in New Delhi has been pushing for this decision to Berlin for a long time as thousands of Indian travellers, inoculated by Covaxin, waited for the […]