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India, Germany to hold talks as EU mulls curbs | India News

NEW DELHI: Amid renewed global efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict, Germany’s foreign minister Johann David Wadephul is visiting India and is scheduled to hold talks with his counterpart S Jaishankar Wednesday. Wadephul will also hold talks with commerce minister Piyush Goyal, as the two countries look to expand their trade and investment ties.The visit […]

MHA’s new directive: Nepal, Bhutan citizens not required to carry visa for entering India, as before | India News

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday announced a new directive allowing citizens of Nepal, Bhutan, and India to enter the country without the need for a visa or passport, easing the earlier requirement.“A citizen of Nepal or Bhutan entering India by land or air over the Nepal or the Bhutan border does not require a […]

Why are minority institutions left out of RTE, asks SC | India News

NEW DELHI: Expressing serious doubts about its own 2014 verdict delivered by a five-judge constitution bench, which held that provisions of Right to Education (RTE) Act were not applicable to religious and linguistic minority educational institutions, Supreme Court has said the ruling “strikes at the heart of good quality universal elementary education, its consequences are […]

What’s needed to succeed in politics? Nitin Gadkari says skill to fool people – watch | India News

NEW DELHI: Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said that in politics speaking the truth is difficult in his field of work.“The one who fools people the most can become the best leader” and added that in the area where he is working, “speaking the truth from the heart is forbidden”.He made the remarks while […]

2L file objections seeking their names struck off Bihar poll rolls | India News

NEW DELHI: The over 2-lakh objections seeking the exclusion of ‘ineligible’ electors from Bihar’s draft electoral roll, received till 3 pm Sunday, are essentially on behalf of those who had filled and submitted their enumeration forms as part of ‘SIR’ while already registered as a voter in a different polling booth, constituency or state, EC […]

SCO summit: PM Modi, Xi Jinping discussed cross-border terror in meeting; MEA says China offered cooperation | India News

Prime Minister Narendra Modi exchanges a handshake with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Official Reception for Heads of States and Heads of Governments at the SCO Summit, in Tianjin on Sunday. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the issue of cross-border terrorism during their meeting on Sunday on […]

‘Photo-op, Truth posts’: Why PM Modi avoided Donald Trump’s calls, Washington invite – report reveals | India News

US President Donald Trump tried reaching out to Prime Minister Narendra Modi “several times” in recent weeks, the New York Times reported, backing an earlier claim by a German newspaper, while highlighting the circumstances behind the apparent snub to the US President by PM Modi.The last officially acknowledged phone call between PM Modi and Trump […]

Modi meets Xi today amid global trade disruptions | India News

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi landed in Tianjin Saturday evening for what is his first visit to China in seven years, amid global trade disruptions and shifting alliances. The visit follows an almost year-long effort by both sides to narrow down their differences on the contentious border issue and normalise the relationship in the form […]

‘After Awadh, now Magadh’: Akhilesh Yadav jabs BJP at Rahul Gandhi’s Bihar rally; slams RSS | India News

Mohan Bhagwat and Akhilesh Yadav (R) NEW DELHI: Taking on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s claim that Indians have shared “the same DNA for 40,000 years,” Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday turned the remark into a political weapon. Speaking at a rally in Bihar alongside Rahul Gandhi‘s Voter Adhikar Yatra, Akhilesh mocked the statement […]

J&K: Cloudburst hits remote village in Ramban district; 3 dead amid heavy rains, flash floods | India News

NEW DELHI: At least three people were killed and two others were reported missing due to heavy rains and flash floods triggered by a cloudburst in the Rajgad area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban, according to the district administration. A rescue operation has been launched to find the missing persons. “Three people have died due […]