NEW DELHI: Even as Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina prepares to inaugurate later this month the landmark China-built Padma bridge, which promises to transform the country’s economy, Dhaka is treading cautiously on economic assistance from China. The Hasina government, according to an official source in Dhaka, has nixed a proposal for a high-speed Dhaka-Chittagong railway line
NEW DELHI: BJP on Saturday overcame the handicap of numbers to wrest two crucial Rajya Sabha seats in Maharashtra and Haryana in a humdinger of an outcome of a hand-to-hand combat against Congress and its other opponents. BJP’s Dhananjay Mahadik prevailed against ruling MVA candidate Sanjay Pawar of Shiv Sena, while saffron-backed Independent Kartikeya Sharma,
NEW DELHI: With the Rajya Sabha results exposing dissension and lack of cohesion among opposition parties, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday reached out to her counterparts and other leaders to participate in a meeting in Delhi on June 15 to discuss the upcoming presidential polls, which are scheduled for July 18. The
NEW DELHI: With the Election Commission announcing the presidential election on Thursday, the spotlight is on YSR Congress and Biju Janata Dal as the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance is just short of the halfway mark. June 29 is the last date for candidates to file papers. Voting is scheduled for July 18 and counting on
HYDERABAD: The 17-year-old son of a politician holding an important position in the Telangana government was arrested on Saturday along with his friend on the charge of gang-raping a girl in a car in the upscale Hyderabad neighbourhood of Banjara Hills on May 28. Police had picked up another suspect — an 18-year-old — on
PATNA: Unmoved by ally BJP’s objections, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Monday asserted that he would soon convene an all-party meeting to take a decision on conducting caste census in the state. It would not take long to begin the process, Nitish said in the presence of BJP leader and deputy chief minister Tarkishore Prasad.
A growing food security threat is set to push Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a conundrum: continue sending wheat to countries hit by dwindling supplies from the war in Ukraine or stockpile food at home to fend off high inflation. Severe heatwaves have damaged wheat yields across the South Asian nation, prompting the government to
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