Abhishek Chakraborty With Inputs From Pti

Over the last week, twelve people, including an infant and two soldiers have been killed, and nearly sixty civilians injured as Pakistani troops increasingly target Indian villages. Pakistan has been shelling and firing mortar bombs at dozens of settlements along the International Border. The Border Security force is responding with "strong and eff...

China has a plan to "isolate" India and Japan and project its power with an aim to control the Indian Ocean region, a US lawmaker warned on Thursday. Beijing, he said, has its eyes set on Taiwan, which it claims as part of China. The American lawmaker went on to say that Beijing's plan is to turn neighbouring country Taiwan into "a major nuclear an...

The Indian Army recently tested the military concept of an 'Air Cavalry' during the 'Vijay Prahar' exercise in the desert terrain of Rajasthan. The 'Air Cavalry' concept was first used by the US Army to locate and take down enemy ground forces during the Vietnam War.

As Karnataka votes to elect the next government in the state, the Election Commission has taken a few new initiatives for the ongoing assembly election. In what is being termed as a "women-oriented" step, the poll panel has set up 450 "pink booths" which are being managed entirely by women. These pink booths have been given the name 'Sakhi' which m...

BN Vijaykumar, a sitting member of legislative assembly or MLA of the Bharatiya Janata Party died of a massive heart attack at a hospital in Bengaluru early this morning, officials of the state BJP said today.

Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are less than nine months away from getting the country's first two state-of-the-art "airport-like" railway stations. The two stations -- Habibganj in Madhya Pradesh and Gandhinagar in Gujarat -- are part of the government's ambitious one lakh crore rupee station redevelopment program to speed up modernisation of the Indi...

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman are in Beijing to attend the foreign and defence ministers' meet organised by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation or SCO. Both meetings, which began this morning, are being held simultaneously.

The International Monetary Fund or IMF has praised India for using "the right policies" to lower its level of debt. Highlighting India's debt to GDP ratio - the ratio between a country's government debt (a cumulative amount) and its gross domestic product or GDP (measured in years) - IMF said, India's share is "quite high", but New Delhi is trying ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was in Sweden yesterday, addressed the Indian community in Stockholm after a busy day which saw him attend ten top-level meetings in ten hours. In his speech to the Indian diaspora, PM Modi said India is going through a period of change, and the government in the last four years has worked very hard towards buildin...

After a busy day in Stockholm, Sweden, which saw him attending ten high-level meetings in ten hours, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached the UK today for a four-day visit. PM Modi, who is in London to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting or CHOGM, will have both bilateral as well as multilateral meetings with different heads of ...

Efforts to form a "federal front" for the 2019 general elections seems to have gathered pace in the last few weeks. Regional parties plan to come together to give the people an option of a non-BJP and non-Congress alternative. Taking an initiative to achieve this, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who is in Bengaluru today, met Janata D...

Remember how repeated appeals and environmental campaigns on television, social media and newspapers warned of a day when you might wake up and find that you no longer have running water available in taps. Well, new satellite evidence has revealed that that day is about to come very soon.

Whose fault is it anyway? Well, that's what officials investigating a bizzare case in Ramnagar - a small town in eastern UP - are trying to figure out. A recent video that surfaced on social media and did the rounds on WhatsApp groups shows a man clinging on to the bonnet of a car while it sped away, with the driver wanting to teach him a lesson. T...

Chinese President Xi Jinping today defended his ambitious multi-billion dollar Belt and Road Initiative or BRI, claiming China has no "geo-political calculations" and that the project will benefit the world.

The Congress has supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his remarks on Balochistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in his Independence Day speech, also distancing itself from comments made by its senior leader Salman Khurshid, who had criticised the PM's speech.

Over the last week, twelve people, including an infant and two soldiers have been killed, and nearly sixty civilians injured as Pakistani troops increasingly target Indian villages. Pakistan has been shelling and firing mortar bombs at dozens of settlements along the International Border. The Border Security force is responding with "strong and eff...

China has a plan to "isolate" India and Japan and project its power with an aim to control the Indian Ocean region, a US lawmaker warned on Thursday. Beijing, he said, has its eyes set on Taiwan, which it claims as part of China. The American lawmaker went on to say that Beijing's plan is to turn neighbouring country Taiwan into "a major nuclear an...

The Indian Army recently tested the military concept of an 'Air Cavalry' during the 'Vijay Prahar' exercise in the desert terrain of Rajasthan. The 'Air Cavalry' concept was first used by the US Army to locate and take down enemy ground forces during the Vietnam War.

As Karnataka votes to elect the next government in the state, the Election Commission has taken a few new initiatives for the ongoing assembly election. In what is being termed as a "women-oriented" step, the poll panel has set up 450 "pink booths" which are being managed entirely by women. These pink booths have been given the name 'Sakhi' which m...

BN Vijaykumar, a sitting member of legislative assembly or MLA of the Bharatiya Janata Party died of a massive heart attack at a hospital in Bengaluru early this morning, officials of the state BJP said today.

Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are less than nine months away from getting the country's first two state-of-the-art "airport-like" railway stations. The two stations -- Habibganj in Madhya Pradesh and Gandhinagar in Gujarat -- are part of the government's ambitious one lakh crore rupee station redevelopment program to speed up modernisation of the Indi...

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman are in Beijing to attend the foreign and defence ministers' meet organised by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation or SCO. Both meetings, which began this morning, are being held simultaneously.

The International Monetary Fund or IMF has praised India for using "the right policies" to lower its level of debt. Highlighting India's debt to GDP ratio - the ratio between a country's government debt (a cumulative amount) and its gross domestic product or GDP (measured in years) - IMF said, India's share is "quite high", but New Delhi is trying ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was in Sweden yesterday, addressed the Indian community in Stockholm after a busy day which saw him attend ten top-level meetings in ten hours. In his speech to the Indian diaspora, PM Modi said India is going through a period of change, and the government in the last four years has worked very hard towards buildin...

After a busy day in Stockholm, Sweden, which saw him attending ten high-level meetings in ten hours, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached the UK today for a four-day visit. PM Modi, who is in London to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting or CHOGM, will have both bilateral as well as multilateral meetings with different heads of ...

Efforts to form a "federal front" for the 2019 general elections seems to have gathered pace in the last few weeks. Regional parties plan to come together to give the people an option of a non-BJP and non-Congress alternative. Taking an initiative to achieve this, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who is in Bengaluru today, met Janata D...

Remember how repeated appeals and environmental campaigns on television, social media and newspapers warned of a day when you might wake up and find that you no longer have running water available in taps. Well, new satellite evidence has revealed that that day is about to come very soon.

Whose fault is it anyway? Well, that's what officials investigating a bizzare case in Ramnagar - a small town in eastern UP - are trying to figure out. A recent video that surfaced on social media and did the rounds on WhatsApp groups shows a man clinging on to the bonnet of a car while it sped away, with the driver wanting to teach him a lesson. T...

Chinese President Xi Jinping today defended his ambitious multi-billion dollar Belt and Road Initiative or BRI, claiming China has no "geo-political calculations" and that the project will benefit the world.

The Congress has supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his remarks on Balochistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in his Independence Day speech, also distancing itself from comments made by its senior leader Salman Khurshid, who had criticised the PM's speech.