India

  • Indian economy headed for ICU: India's ex-CEA
    New Delhi, December 18 (PTI): India is facing a "Great Slowdown" with its economy headed for intensive care unit primarily due to a "second wave" of the twin balance sheet crisis at banks, former Chief Economic
  • CAA: BJP's 3-pronged plan to explain govt stand
    New Delhi, December 18 (IANS) Nationwide protests, international media giving negative coverage and vocal Bollywood A-listers questioning the Citizenship Amendment Act - it all has collectively put the central
  • CAA has nothing to do with NRC: Law Minister
    New Delhi, December 17 (PTI): The amended Citizenship Act has nothing to do with the proposed nation-wide National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday.  
  • BrahMos supersonic missile successfully test-fired
    New Delhi, December 17 (PTI): Supersonic cruise missile BrahMos was successfully test-fired from a base in Odisha's Chandipur on Tuesday, defence sources said. The land-attack version of the missile was test
  • CAA good for Christians, says Minorities Commission
    New Delhi, December 17 (IANS) Welcoming the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), National Minorities Commission has said that the new law is "good" for Christians.   In a statement issued on Monday, Ge
  • Fresh violence in Delhi over citizenship law
    Brick-bats lie on a road as anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protesters clash with the police at Seelampur in New Delhi. Photograph: Shahbaz Khan/PTI Photo   Citizenship law: Students, opposition lea
  • Modi dares Congress to confer citizenship to all Pakistanis
    Ranchi, December 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday dared the Congress to announce that all Pakistanis would get citizenship of India.   "Congress is creating an atmosphere of fear amo
  • Opposition delegation meets Kovind, urges CAA rollback
    New Delhi, December 17 (IANS) Amid widespread protests across the country against the Citizenship Amendment Act, a delegation of 19 senior opposition leaders from 12 parties met President Ram Nath Kovind on Tue
  • CAA: Mamata slams Modi for 'dress' comment
    Kolkata, December 17 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday came down heavily on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his comment that people indulging in arson during the anti-CAA protests c
  • Amid citizenship row, Pranab cautions against majoritarianism
    Former president Pranab Mukherjee delivers the second Atal Vihari Vajpayee memorial lecture in New Delhi. Photograph: @CitiznMukherjee/Twitter   New Delhi, December 17 (PTI): Former president Pranab
  • CJI recuses from review plea of convict in Nirbhaya case
    New Delhi, December 17 (IANS) Chief Justice S.A. Bobde has recused himself from the hearing on the review petition filed by Nirbhaya gangrape and murder convict Akshay Kumar Singh, who moved the court seeking r
  • Lt Gen MM Naravane set to be next Indian Army chief
    Lieutenant General Manoj Mukund Naravane, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command. (Photo courtesy: Indian Army [GODL-India (https://data.gov.in/sites/default/files/Gazette_Noti
  • Ayodhya cheers as Shah says temple will begin in 4 months
    Ayodhya, December 16 (IANS) Ayodhya cheered on Monday as Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced in Jharkhand that work on a grand Ram temple "touching the sky" will begin within four months. "The Supreme Co
  • Migrants won't automatically become citizens: MHA source
    New Delhi, December 16 (IANS) No migrant, specified in the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, will automatically become a citizen of India and each one will have to apply online, Home Ministry sources said on Monday.
  • Don't let vested groups divide India: Modi on CAA
    New Delhi, December 16 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a series of tweets on Monday has said while dissent is an essential part of democracy, violence is not. He was articulating government's stand on th
  • Mamata leads big march, says won't allow CAB, NRC
    Kolkata, December 16 (IANS) With thousands joining in, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday led a huge protest march against the NRC and the CAA through the heart
  • Citizenship law doesn't affect any Indian of any religion: PM
    New Delhi, December 16 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday termed violent protests across the country against the Citizenship Amendment Act as "unfortunate and deeply distressing", and appealed to peo
  • Law took its own course: Smriti on Sengar conviction
    New Delhi, December 16 (IANS) As soon as the news came of former BJP lawmaker Kuldeep Sengar's conviction in the Unnao rape case on Monday, netizens were quick to ask Union Minister Smriti Irani for her reactio
  • Rahul is wearing Italian spectacles: Shah
    Ranchi, December 16 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was wearing "Italian spectacles". "Rahul Baba and Hemant (Soren) say why talk about Article 370 and Kashmi
  • Jamia crackdown: The ripple effect
    Jamia Millia Islamia Vice-Chancellor Najma Akhtar addresses a press conference regarding police action against students on Sunday at the university campus in New Delhi. Photograph: Kamal Kishore/PTI Photo &n
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