India’s relations with China going through very difficult phase’: Jaishankar

India’s relations with China going through very difficult phase’: Jaishankar

Munich: India’s relationship with China is right now going through a “very difficult phase” after Beijing violated agreements not to bring the military forces in the border, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said, emphasising that the “state of the border will determine the state of the relationship”. Speaking at a panel discussion on Saturday […]

New PIB accreditation guidelines intend to restrict critical reporting of government: Editors Guild

New PIB accreditation guidelines intend to restrict critical reporting of government: Editors Guild

NEW DELHI: The Editors Guild of India on Sunday raised objections to the new accreditation guidelines issued by the Press Information Bureau (PIB), saying vague, arbitrary and draconian clauses have been included in it with an intent to restrict any critical and investigative reporting of government affairs. It demanded that the new accreditation guidelines be […]

Ailing Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Watali moved out of jail but put under house arrest

Ailing Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Watali moved out of jail but put under house arrest

New Delhi:Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Watali, arrested by the National Investigation Agency in 2017 in a terror financing case, has been moved out of a jail and put under house arrest to facilitate treatment for a terminal disease. A special NIA court earlier this month rejected Watali’s application for a regular bail but took a compassionate […]

Don’t slip into the ‘lazy analogy’ of referring Quad as Asian NATO: EAM Jaishankar

Don’t slip into the ‘lazy analogy’ of referring Quad as Asian NATO: EAM Jaishankar

MUNICH: Dismissing the notion that the Quad is an Asian NATO, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that there are “interested parties” who advance such analogies and one should not slip into it, underlining that the four-nation grouping is a kind of 21st century way of responding to a more diversified and dispersed world. […]

‘Raebareli has been completely rejected under Yogi government’: Priyanka targets BJP

‘Raebareli has been completely rejected under Yogi government’: Priyanka targets BJP

RAEBARELI: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of spending funds on advertisements instead of using them to empower people. Gandhi arrived in Raebareli on Saturday on a two-day visit to campaign for Congress candidates. Raebareli is the parliamentary constituency of Congress […]