Namrata Brar

Billionaire diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who is being investigated in connection with a Rs 11,300 crore Punjab National Bank scam, has been traced to an apartment in New York's Manhattan. Sources have told NDTV that Mr Modi is staying in a luxurious suite at JW Marriott's Essex House, a short walk away from his Madison Avenue jewellery retail store...

The US Congress is trying to pass a law that could make life tougher for companies hiring workers on H1-B visa, which is popular among Indian IT professionals. The proposed law involves a substantial hike in minimum salary -- from $60,000 to $90,000. It also makes it impossible to replace Americans with workers brought in under H1-B visa.

Panned for his recent declaration that roads in Madhya Pradesh were superior than those in the US, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, while talking to NDTV, reiterated that he would prefer the Super Corridor to reach the Indore Airport than take the road from the Washington DC Airport to the city.

The murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh and the threats to Dalit author Kancha Ilaiah, including one by a Parliamentarian of India's ruling coalition, have not gone unnoticed even halfway across the world.

Amid intense criticism over the government's handling of the economy, Finance Ministry Arun Jaitley told NDTV that the Centre is following the "right economic policy", adding that it didn't indulge in populism

India had a photograph to show the United Nations General Assembly on Monday -- that of Ummer Fayaz, the young army officer who had been dragged out of a wedding party and gunned down by terrorists in Kashmir in May this year.

Reiterating India's commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said India's unflinching backing for the climate change pact was an outcome of a philosophy that was at least 5,000 years old. "This is not because we are afraid of any power, influenced by friend or foe, or tempted by some imagined greed," she de...

Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj was unsparing in her attacks on Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi at the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, mercilessly lampooning PM Abbasi's speech that had pointed fingers at India. But the Foreign Minister didn't miss the opportunity to take a thinly-veiled dig at China as well, the veto-wie...

In a takedown of Pakistan for its non-stop support to terrorism, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday dismissed Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's accusations of violating human rights, telling the United Nations General Assembly, "Look who is talking". "We are completely engaged in fighting poverty; alas our neighbour Pakistan se...

Pakistan is now "Terroristan", India has said in a formidable rebuttal at the UN to Pakistani prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi calling for a special envoy to Kashmir while alleging that the "struggle of the people in the region is being brutally suppressed by India".

Rahul Gandhi, speaking at the Princeton University on Tuesday, confessed that the Narendra Modi government's "Make in India" is one policy that he wished his Congress party had introduced, although with tweaks.

US President Donald Trump, once a harsh critic of the United Nations Security Council, took a measured tone today and called for reforms in the body - a view India has taken for long. Addressing a meeting on UN reforms a day ahead of his address at the General Assembly, President Trump said he encouraged member states to strike out for change and n...

India is expected to press for ban on Jaish-e Mohammad chief Masood Azhar at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly, indicated Syed Akbaruddin, India's ambassador to the UN. Last year, China had blocked India's efforts for a ban on the terror chief at the UN. But at the summit of BRICS - a block of emerging economies including Brazil, Russia, Ind...

A 57-year-old doctor from Telangana was stabbed to death at his clinic in Kansas, US, on Wednesday. Achutha Reddy, a psychiatrist, was found with multiple wounds in an alley behind his clinic in East Wichita. One of his patients, a 21-year-old Indian-American, has been arrested and charged with first degree murder.

Rahul Gandhi began his two-week US tour with an address to students at University of California's Berkeley today, attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP and also saying that he is "absolutely ready" to take charge of his party.

Billionaire diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who is being investigated in connection with a Rs 11,300 crore Punjab National Bank scam, has been traced to an apartment in New York's Manhattan. Sources have told NDTV that Mr Modi is staying in a luxurious suite at JW Marriott's Essex House, a short walk away from his Madison Avenue jewellery retail store...

The US Congress is trying to pass a law that could make life tougher for companies hiring workers on H1-B visa, which is popular among Indian IT professionals. The proposed law involves a substantial hike in minimum salary -- from $60,000 to $90,000. It also makes it impossible to replace Americans with workers brought in under H1-B visa.

Panned for his recent declaration that roads in Madhya Pradesh were superior than those in the US, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, while talking to NDTV, reiterated that he would prefer the Super Corridor to reach the Indore Airport than take the road from the Washington DC Airport to the city.

The murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh and the threats to Dalit author Kancha Ilaiah, including one by a Parliamentarian of India's ruling coalition, have not gone unnoticed even halfway across the world.

Amid intense criticism over the government's handling of the economy, Finance Ministry Arun Jaitley told NDTV that the Centre is following the "right economic policy", adding that it didn't indulge in populism

India had a photograph to show the United Nations General Assembly on Monday -- that of Ummer Fayaz, the young army officer who had been dragged out of a wedding party and gunned down by terrorists in Kashmir in May this year.

Reiterating India's commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said India's unflinching backing for the climate change pact was an outcome of a philosophy that was at least 5,000 years old. "This is not because we are afraid of any power, influenced by friend or foe, or tempted by some imagined greed," she de...

Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj was unsparing in her attacks on Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi at the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, mercilessly lampooning PM Abbasi's speech that had pointed fingers at India. But the Foreign Minister didn't miss the opportunity to take a thinly-veiled dig at China as well, the veto-wie...

In a takedown of Pakistan for its non-stop support to terrorism, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday dismissed Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's accusations of violating human rights, telling the United Nations General Assembly, "Look who is talking". "We are completely engaged in fighting poverty; alas our neighbour Pakistan se...

Pakistan is now "Terroristan", India has said in a formidable rebuttal at the UN to Pakistani prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi calling for a special envoy to Kashmir while alleging that the "struggle of the people in the region is being brutally suppressed by India".

Rahul Gandhi, speaking at the Princeton University on Tuesday, confessed that the Narendra Modi government's "Make in India" is one policy that he wished his Congress party had introduced, although with tweaks.

US President Donald Trump, once a harsh critic of the United Nations Security Council, took a measured tone today and called for reforms in the body - a view India has taken for long. Addressing a meeting on UN reforms a day ahead of his address at the General Assembly, President Trump said he encouraged member states to strike out for change and n...

India is expected to press for ban on Jaish-e Mohammad chief Masood Azhar at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly, indicated Syed Akbaruddin, India's ambassador to the UN. Last year, China had blocked India's efforts for a ban on the terror chief at the UN. But at the summit of BRICS - a block of emerging economies including Brazil, Russia, Ind...

A 57-year-old doctor from Telangana was stabbed to death at his clinic in Kansas, US, on Wednesday. Achutha Reddy, a psychiatrist, was found with multiple wounds in an alley behind his clinic in East Wichita. One of his patients, a 21-year-old Indian-American, has been arrested and charged with first degree murder.

Rahul Gandhi began his two-week US tour with an address to students at University of California's Berkeley today, attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP and also saying that he is "absolutely ready" to take charge of his party.