Daily Archives: May 15, 2019

LOCKHEED MARTIN OFFERS TO MAKE F-21 INDIA-SPECIFIC

US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has offered to sign an exclusive deal to India for newly rolled out F-21 fighter jet, telling New Delhi that it will not sell...

IEC ANNOUNCES FINAL RESULTS OF KABUL PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced the final results of Kabul parliamentary elections four months after it announced the preliminary results which were later rejected by observers. There are 24...

250 RMG UNITS AT RISK OF UNREST

At least 250 readymade garment factories across the country are at risk of facing unrest over payment of wages and festival allowances to their workers before the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr,...

TMC SHOWS VIDEO OF BJP WORKERS VANDALISING COLLEGE, COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST AMIT SHAH

A day after both Trinamool and BJP complained to the Election Commission against each other, a police complaint has been filed in Kolkata against BJP president Amit Shah. Bengal chief...

INDO-PACIFIC STRATEGY IS NOT AGAINST ANY COUNTRY, VISITING US OFFICIAL ASSERTS

A visiting senior US State Department official said on Tuesday that the Indo-Pacific Strategy is not against any country and that the United States is not asking Nepal to...

US REFUSED VISAS TO THREE GOVT OFFICIALS: FM

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday told the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs that visa curbs had been applied by the US on three officials of...

ISLAMIC AND TAMIL ORGANIZATIONS EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH RIOT HIT LANKAN MUSLIMS

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) says in a press release on Tuesday that it has been closely monitoring the attacks that have taken place in various locations in...

U.S. CURBS: INDIA TO DECIDE ON IRAN CRUDE IMPORTS AFTER POLLS

India will take a call on the purchase of Iranian energy after the general elections, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told her Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif here on Tuesday. The...

TURKMENISTAN, IRAN MINISTERS DISCUSS SITUATION IN AFGHANISTAN

Turkmenistan Foreign Minister RaÅŸit Meredow met his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif and discussed in details the cooperation of the two and also focused on the situation in Afghanistan. The...

Pulwama attack was massive intelligence failure: Arundhati Roy

World-renowned and award-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy has said the Pulwama suicide attack was a massive intelligence failure and hinted towards the attack being a false flag operation. In an...

ARG REACTS TO CANDIDATES SUGGESTION ON ‘CARETAKER GOVT’

The Presidential Palace, ARG, on Tuesday reacted to the suggestion made by a group of presidential candidates on the establishment of a caretaker government as a solution to fill...

AMIT SHAH’S CONVOY ATTACKED, FIRE SET OUTSIDE COLLEGE DURING BJP CHIEF’S ROADSHOW IN KOLKATA

The battle for Bengal is getting bloodier by the day. Scuffle broke out between Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers during Amit Shah's roadshow in Kolkata on...

INVISIBLE HAND WITH POLITICAL MOTIVES BEHIND VIOLENCE: CLERGY

An invisible hand with political motives is behind the violence reported from the North-Western Province and in Minuwangoda, the Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith and Ven. Ittapane Dhammalankara...

UN INVESTIGATORS URGE NATIONS TO SNAP FINANCIAL TIES WITH MYANMAR MILITARY

The world must cut off financial and other support for Myanmar's armed forces, a UN fact-finding mission said today, repeating a call for top generals to be prosecuted for...

ANGER GROWS AS INDIA’S DEATH TOLL FROM CYCLONE RISES

The death toll from a major cyclone that hit eastern India and Bangladesh early this month rose to 77 yesterday as anger grew over millions of people still without...

SLOW CAPITAL EXPENDITURE CONTINUES TO BEDEVIL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

The KP Sharma Oli administration, which has a two-thirds majority in Parliament, had claimed it would show visible development progress but has continued the longstanding and perennial problem--slow and...

Delhi Crime: The untold story

Delhi Crime is inspired by police reports of the brutal gang rape of 23-year-old Jyoti Singh, popularly known as Nirbhaya (fearless). The seven-episode-long first season of Netflix India’s latest crime series makes for an intense, difficult but ultimately

Indian Army to move air defence units closer to Pakistan border

The Indian Army has decided to move its air defence units deployed in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Gujarat and Rajasthan to forward locations near Pakistan border to thwart enemy...

Indian army raises alarm over rising accidents due to faulty ammunition

The Army has sounded the alarm over the unacceptably high number of accidents taking place in the field due to the poor and defective quality of ammunition being supplied...

Iran, China diplomats hold talks on Afghanistan

The Chinese Foreign Ministry's Special Envoy for Afghanistan, Deng Xijun, and Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araghchi met on Monday in Tehran and discussed Afghan peace...

Bangladesh urges India to withdraw anti-dumping duty

Bangladesh’s Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi today requested his Indian counterpart Suresh Prabhu to take necessary measures to withdraw anti-dumping duty on Bangladeshi products as they met on the sidelines...