Mysuru (Karnataka): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and said that he was taking classes on China from the Chinese ambassador. Speaking on ‘Foreign Policy of the Modi Government,’ he said, “I would have offered to take classes on China from Rahul Gandhi but I discovered […]
Media Associations Voice Concern New Delhi: Media associations in the country have voiced concern over India slipping 11 places to 161st rank in the World Press Freedom Index, 2023, published on Wednesday. Global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which publishes a yearly report on press freedom in countries across the world, had last year […]
Jammu: There was nothing wrong in the remarks of National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on the recent attack on an Army vehicle in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir Congress chief Vikar Rasool Wani said on Monday. He also said former J-K governor Satya Pal Malik’s recent disclosures, especially with regard to the 2019 Pulwama attack, exposed […]
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday demanded that the government should come out with a white paper on the Pulwama attack providing answers to questions such as what were the “intelligence failures” and why troops were denied aircraft. Days after former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satypal Malik’s allegations over the 2019 Pulwama attack, the Congress […]
New Delhi: From calling it “brazen anarchy in the state” to demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Opposition parties on Sunday came down heavily on the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government over the killing of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother. While maintaining that criminals should be given the harshest of punishment, the Congress […]
New Delhi: In the wake of Ghulam Nabi Azad’s strident criticism of the Congress, party veteran Saifuddin Soz on Tuesday said Azad cannot convince the people that he was justified in his “extreme act of disloyalty” to the party. Azad is seen moving closer to the BJP to cause division of votes when elections take […]
London: Former IPL chief Lalit Modi, accused of financial irregularities in India, launched a scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi on Thursday and threatened to take the senior Congress leader to court in the UK over his ‘Modi surname’ remark. Lalit Modi, 59, also hit out at the Congress party for referring to him as a […]
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday asked Congress to act like an “elder brother” and create space for opposition parties in their fight for democracy. “Congress will have to behave like an elder brother. It should not choke space, it should create space for other opposition parties, which have been its alliance partners in […]
Srinagar: Amid unity efforts in the opposition ranks, Congress leader Salman Khurshid Wednesday said the party does not want to play the role of a “big brother” to any party and called for a collective fight against the “big challenge.” Addressing a press conference at Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) head office here, […]
New Delhi: A combative Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that even if he is disqualified from Parliament for life or jailed, he would keep defending the democratic nature of the country, and claimed that a “panic-stricken” government has handed the Opposition a “weapon” with the move to disqualify him. At his first press conference after […]