File photo: PM Modi with US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: ANI) US President Donald Trump has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “not that happy” with him because of the tariffs Washington has imposed on India over its purchases of Russian oil, linking trade pressure directly to New Delhi’s energy ties with Moscow.Speaking at…
Baloch leader Mir Yar Baloch has raised a “serious threat” warning over deepening China–Pakistan ties, claiming that China could deploy its military forces in Pakistan’s Balochistan region in the coming months.In an open letter to external affairs minister S Jaishankar, posted on X on New Year’s Day, Mir Yar Baloch said Baloch representatives view the…
Swiss Federal President Guy Parmelin (AP) Swiss President Guy Parmelin described the deadly fire at the bar in Crans-Montana that killed 40 and injured 115 as “one of the worst tragedies” the country has known.A fire broke out shortly after midnight on Thursday during New Year celebrations at Le Constellation, a bar popular with international…
NEW DELHI: Chinese state backed Global Times has criticised Salman Khan’s upcoming movie, ‘Battle of Galwan’, claiming that the film was “distorting facts”.“Bollywood films at most provide an entertainment-driven, emotionally charged portrayal, but no amount of cinematic exaggeration can rewrite the history or shake the PLA’s determination to defend China’s sovereign territory,” Global Times cited…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury at his residence in Delhi and raised the issue of attacks on Bengali-speaking people, especially in BJP-ruled states.Chowdhury, a former West Bengal Congress chief, urged the Prime Minister’s intervention to help stop such attacks.He claimed that such incidents could flare up…
NEW DELHI: Congress party on Saturday expressed “serious concern” over the Bengaluru demolition drive carried out by the Karnataka government that led to the eviction of several settlers from Kogilu village. Party general secretary KC Venugopal spoke to the Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and deputy CM DK Shivakumar and conveyed that such actions should have been…
Representative image (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: AAP leader and former MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj on Saturday raised concerns over incidents of “violence and intimidation” targeting people celebrating Christmas across the country. He even said that “Santa Claus reached police station to register FIR against Right Wing goons.”In a post on X, the former AAP MLA wrote,…
Saddam Hussain, president of the Bangladesh Students League, the student wing of the now-banned Bangladesh Awami League, alleged “Talibanisation” is happening in Bangladesh under the leadership of the Yunus-led interim government.Speaking to ANI about the lynching of Dipu Chandra Das, Hussain accused the interim leadership of encouraging anti-India sentiment to divert attention from internal failures.“Whatever…
NEW DELHI: Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari flagged Delhi’s worsening air pollution, saying the capital’s toxic air was so severe that he fell ill after spending just two days in the city, while stressing that the transport sector was a major contributor to the problem.“I stay in Delhi for 2 days…
US federal authorities have arrested five people accused of plotting coordinated bomb attacks across Southern California on New Year’s Eve, disrupting what officials described as a major terror plot, according to the FBI and the Department of Justice.The suspects are alleged members of a “radical offshoot” of the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), an extremist…