New Delhi – The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has assured Union Minister Shri George Kurian that it will take all necessary steps to safely repatriate over 3,000 Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims, including a significant number of Malayalees, who are stranded in China’s Darchen region. The pilgrims have been unable to return to Nepal due to…
NEW DELHI: A highly anticipated visit to India by Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, has been called off. The visit, which would have been the first ministerial-level interaction between the two sides since the Taliban took control of Kabul in August 2021, was postponed after Muttaqi failed to secure a necessary waiver to…
New delhi:In a significant move, the Indian government has extended the cut-off date for eligibility under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019, by a decade. The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a new notification stating that religious minorities from neighboring countries who entered India on or before December 31, 2024, will now be eligible…
NEW DELHI — The recent meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese Communist Party heavyweight Cai Qi in Tianjin, China, has sparked intense debate among analysts and observers about the future trajectory of India-China relations. While a definitive shift remains to be seen, the high-level engagement has been widely interpreted as a significant step…
New Delhi: A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Pakistan after India released water from several of its overflowing dams, leading to widespread flooding in hundreds of villages and the evacuation of over 150,000 people. The move, prompted by incessant and heavy rainfall in northern India, has inundated low-lying areas in Pakistan’s Punjab province, which is…
New Delhi: Former Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Anish Dayal Singh, has been appointed as a Deputy National Security Advisor (Deputy NSA). The 1988-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the Manipur cadre will now work under National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval. Singh, who retired from service in December 2024,…
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) of India has officially debunked a viral campaign by self-proclaimed evangelist K.A. Paul, who was seeking to raise ₹8.3 crore for the release of Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse on death row in Yemen. The ministry has warned the public against falling for the “misleading” and “fake”…
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is set to introduce a set of three crucial bills to provide a legal framework for the removal of the Prime Minister, Union Ministers, Chief Ministers, and state ministers who are arrested or detained on serious criminal charges. The proposed legislation seeks to amend key articles of the Constitution to…
NEW DELHI: Psephologist Sanjay Kumar, co-director of Lokniti-CSDS, has issued a public apology after his recent post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) about the Maharashtra voter list was found to be based on incorrect data. The post had claimed a massive discrepancy in the number of voters in two assembly constituencies—Ramtek and Devlali—between…
The decision by the INDIA alliance to field a vice-presidential candidate from Tamil Nadu could potentially provide a significant political lifeline to the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), helping it navigate a brewing political crisis. The move is seen as a direct counter-strategy to the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) nomination of C.P. Radhakrishnan, a Tamilian, as…
