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   JAMMU: With Jammu and Kashmir being under the direct rule of the Central government since 2018 and Union Home Minister Amit Shah giving repeated assurances to hold elections in Union Territory soon after the delimitation commission’s report, all eyes are on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the city on April 24. PM Modi […]

  NEW DELHI: Shahbaz Sharif — now the premier of Pakistan — who 10 years ago had visited his paternal village of Jati Umra on the Indian side of Punjab, knows the importance of ties he enjoyed with India and the risks he may invite at the cost of any untoward incident that his predecessors […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden discussed the COVID-19 pandemic, global economic recovery, climate action, recent developments in South Asia and the Indo-Pacific region, and the situation in Ukraine in a virtual meeting on Monday. During the meeting the two leaders reviewed developments in the bilateral relations, the Prime Minister’s office […]

NEW DELHI: Ahead of 2+2 dialogue between the two states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joseph R. Biden of the US will hold a virtual meeting on Monday April 11, the Ministry of External Affairs and the White House confirmed. The two leaders will take a stock of bilateral cooperation and discuss the COVID-19 […]

SRINAGAR: The management of the city’s Kashmir Law College has decided to remove its pro-Pakistan principal Dr Sheikh Showkat and initiated the process to appoint a new principal. Showkat has been a hardline ideologue of Pakistan-backed separatist organisations. In 2016, Showkat along with Pakistani sponsored secessionist Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Arundhati Roy, Prof. SAR Geelani […]

NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for External Affairs, Meenakshi Lekhi on Thursday said India provided assistance worth USD 55 billion to friendly nations under the Modi government in the last seven years. “In the last seven years since Mr Modi became the Prime Minister, India has given USD 55 billion worth of support to […]

NEW DELHI: In order to expand their global relations, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has invited the envoys from other countries to commemorate its foundation day being held on April 6 evening. JP Nadda, the National President of the BJP, Dr. Vijay Chauthaiwala, Overseas BJP Convenor, Jay Panda National Vice President, and some other senior […]

Congress Lok Sabha MP from Ludhiana, Ravneet Singh Bittu called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Monday.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepal counterpart Sher Bahadur Deuba met here on Saturday and jointly flagged off the inaugural run of the first broad-gauge passenger train between Jaynagar in Bihar and Nepal’s Kurtha. Deuba is on a three-day visit to India, his first visit to the country after becoming the Prime […]

NEW DELHI: India and Australia on Saturday signed a trade deal to boost bilateral ties and break trade barriers, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling the development a “watershed moment”. The trade between India and Australia is expected to rise to USD 45 billion from the existing USD 27.5 billion, said Union Commerce Minister Piyush […]