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NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing war with Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will arrive in New Delhi for a two-day visit to India starting on Thursday, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced. This will be the first visit of any high-level Russian leadership since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and the […]

SRINAGAR: Thirty-two years after the killing of Kashmiri Pandit Satish Tickoo, a city-based court on Wednesday started hearing his family’s plea seeking a report on the progress of the investigation against former JKLF terrorist Bitta Karate in the murder case. Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bitta Karate had shot dead Tickoo, a businessman, outside his residence […]

NEW DELHI: Stressing that the Ukraine war has added to challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Tuesday called upon members of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) to deepen and broaden cooperation within the group. Speaking at the BIMSTEC Ministerial meeting in […]

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday filed a charge sheet against six people for their involvement in attempts to revive the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in India and Sri Lanka. The accused entered into a criminal conspiracy to revive the LTTE by committing forgery for cheating besides using forged documents […]

NEW DELHI: Mexico Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón will arrive in New Delhi on Wednesday on his maiden three-day visit to India to take stock of progress in bilateral ties. He will also visit Mumbai, the External Affairs Ministry (MEA) said. The Mexican foreign minister and External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar will undertake a comprehensive […]

NEW DELHI: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has postponed his visit to India after contracting Covid-19 infection, Israel’s mission to India confirmed to The New Indian. PM Bennett was scheduled to arrive in New Delhi on April 3 for a three-day visit. “The postponement of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s visit to India due to Covid-19 […]

RAIPUR: An arrest warrant has been issued against Chhattisgarh Revenue Secretary Neelam Namdev Ekka by the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) in connection with an alleged land grabbing case related to a firm of the Dainik Bhaskar Group in Janjgir-Champa district. ‘DB Power Limited’ of the DB Group allegedly cheated farmers belonging to the […]

NEW DELHI: More than 28 per cent of newly-elected MLAs in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa leveraged Koo App to connect with voters, show data released by India’s home-grown social media company regarding usage pattern in the recently-held assembly elections. The insights reveal that multi-lingual Koos, an exclusive feature of the platform, increased […]

NEW DELHI: India on Saturday repatriated three prisoners to Pakistan via the Attari-Wagah border after the completion of their jail sentences, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. The three Pakistani nationals are: Sameera Abdul Rehman, Murtaza Asghar Ali and Ahmed Raja. Sameera Abdul Rehman was accompanied by her 4-year-old girl child Sana Fatima, the […]

NEW DELHI: Delhi Deputy CM and Finance Minister Manish Sisodia presented the Rs 75,800 crore annual budget of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in the Delhi assembly on Saturday. This year’s budget focuses on creating employment and boosting businesses. Calling it a ‘Rozgar Budget’, Sisodia said that he has come up with schemes that would provide employment […]