Photo credit: Agencies An intelligence alert has been issued in Delhi over a possible terror threat near the Red Fort and Chandni Chowk area. PM Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva set a $20 billion bilateral trade target over five years and signed agreements on digital partnership, rare earths, and mining…

West Bengal has declared July 6 a public holiday to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee. The decision will keep schools, government offices, local bodies, state undertakings and other government-controlled institutions closed for the day, as the state pays tribute to one of its prominent historical figures. The West Bengal government…

External affairs minister S Jaishankar (ANI photo) External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday said that Iran had formally requested permission for three of its vessels to dock at Indian ports, a request that India granted the very next day.Amid rising tensions in the Indian Ocean after last week’s sinking of an Iranian warship by…

Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi (File photo) NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Thursday reacted to the suicide of a NEET aspirant and launched a fresh attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government over the NEET-UG paper leak blunder.Taking to social media, the senior Congress leader referred to…

Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sushmita Dev, Prakash Chik Baraik (L-R) NEW DELHI: Hours after formally joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders Sushmita Dev, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and Prakash Chik Baraik were on Thursday named as the BJP’s candidates for the upcoming bypoll elections.The announcement came shortly after the three leaders were…

The meeting commenced with the lighting of a ceremonial lamp, followed by tributes to the organisation’s former office-bearers NEW DELHI: The Rashtriya Sevika Samiti, the women’s organisation ideologically affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), on Friday began its three-day first half-yearly national executive and representatives’ meeting at the Madhav Smriti campus in Samalkha, Haryana.Around…

NEW DELHI: Things are heating up in Delhi with TMC on Tuesday fielding Kalyan Banerjee and Kirti Azad to take on dissident MPs and questioning the claim made by rebel MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar of having the support of 20 MPs and having written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking recognition as a separate…