India

Modi govt pushing India back to Maharajas’ era’: Rahul

  New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi, the Congress leader, has slammed the Modi government’s move to repeal the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA),…

India-EU FTA is wholesale surrender to European capital, says CPI-M

New Delhi: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has strongly opposed the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement, terming it a “wholesale surrender” of India’s economic…

Wangchuk’s wife questions India’s Republic Day celebrations amid rights denial

New Delhi: Gitanjali J Angmo, wife of Ladakh-based climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, expressed her disillusionment with India’s Republic Day celebrations, questioning the meaning of the…

MP Ramzan raises IIOJK statehood, governance concerns in Delhi meet

New Delhi: Member of Indian Parliament Chowdry Ramzan has strongly pitched for the restoration of statehood to occupied Jammu and Kashmir, saying that despite a…

Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, four others killed in plane crash

Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar has been killed along with four others when a private aircraft crashed…

Shrine of Sufi poet Baba Bulleh Shah vandalized by Hindutva group in Uttarakhand

Dehradun: The shrine of 18th-century renowned Sufi poet Syed Baba Bulleh Shah in Mussoorie in BJP-ruled Uttarakhand state was vandalized by Hindutva elements linked to…

Madras HC judge’s Sanatana Dharma remarks raise questions over judicial independence in India

Chennai: Madras High Court Justice G.R. Swaminathan has sparked fresh controversy by stating that he intends to keep Sanatana Dharma in his heart during the…

Uttarakhand CM Dhami takes pride in ‘most prolific hate-speech actor’ tag, rights groups alarmed

Dehradun: Instead of disputing the findings, Pushkar Singh Dhami, the Chief Minister of BJP-ruled Uttarakhand state, has openly embraced the label of “most prolific hate-speech…

11 Indian commandos injured in IED blasts during Chhattisgarh operation

New Delhi: At least eleven commandos of Indian armed forces were injured after a series of improvised explosive device (IED) blasts during an anti-Maoist operation…

Amnesty exposes India’s systematic impunity for sexual violence

New Delhi: Amnesty International has said that the death of a young Kuki-Zo woman, who was a victim of sexual violence during Manipur’s ethnic conflict,…