Washington: US President Donald Trump will hold a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in late February as both sides seek to jump-start denuclearization talks that have made little progress since their historic first meeting in Singapore last year. The White House made the announcement after Trump met Kim Yong Chol, North Korea’s […]
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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is in the US for medical treatment of a rare kind of cancer. Reports suggest that he may not be able to present this year’s Interim Budget on February 1. Jaitley,66, had left for the US on Sunday for what was believed to be a medical check-up relating to his kidney […]
Bengaluru: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Karnataka State President and former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa on Saturday called back all BJP MLAs camping in Gurgaon. The BJP MLAs from Karnataka said they were in Gurgaon since Monday evening to devise strategies for the coming Lok Sabha polls, and not to avoid being “poached” by the ruling […]
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) General Secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi said on Friday the Ram Temple in Ayodhya must be built by 2025. “Mandir bane ye humari ichha hai. 2025 tak poora hona chahiye, ye humari ichha hai. Sarkar ko tay karna hai (The temple should be constructed, this is our wish. It should be completed by […]
Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates on Thursday a host of high-profile events as part of the three-day Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit, pictures of Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel went missing from all posters and banners across the state capital Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad. Posters, publicity material and invites related to the main event Vibrant […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside certain provisions of a law imposing restrictions on the licensing and functioning of dance bars in Maharashtra. A bench headed by Justice A K Sikri quashed certain provisions of the Maharashtra Prohibition of Obscene Dance in Hotels, Restaurants and Bar Rooms and Protection of Dignity of […]
Watchers are waiting to see if Prime Minister Narendra Modi will betray convention and announce tax concessions to win favor with voters. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government prepares to present its last spending plan on February 1 before general election, the main question on people’s minds is: will it be a lame duck budget […]
New Delhi, News24 Bureau, Jan 15: This comes as yet another shock for the Aam Aadmi Party. Now another Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator from Punjab, Baldev Singh, on Wednesday resigned from the primary membership of the party, citing “autocratic functioning”, “double standards” and giving up the party’s basic ideology and principles. Baldev Singh, who […]
Gandhi’s jibe comes a day after Modi received the first-ever Philip Kotler Presidential award here. New Delhi: Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for receiving the Philip Kotler Presidential award, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he wants to “congratulate” him on winning “the world famous” prize that has no jury and […]
Charges of poaching from both sides raise political heat BJP MLAs from Karnataka, 101 out of a total of 104, were being sequestered at a five-star hotel in Gurugram, near Delhi on Monday, with allegations of poaching of MLAs from both sides, the Congress-Janata Dal (S) and the BJP, raising the political temperature in Bengaluru. […]