US First Lady Melania Trump on Tuesday visited a government school in south Delhi’s Moti Bagh where she attended a class featuring the happiness curriculum with students who welcomed her in the traditional Indian way, performed Yoga and danced for her. Melania said she couldn’t think of a better way […]
Trumps hail vision of Mahatma Gandhi
US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat after being accorded a ceremonial welcome at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday. The first family of the United States, who visited the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on Monday, laid a wreath and paid floral tributes […]
Donald Trump optimistic about Afghanistan peace deal
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he had discussed his country’s planned peace deal with the Afghan Taliban with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and “India would like to see it happen”. US secretary of state Mike Pompeo told reporters that a partial truce in Afghanistan between the Taliban, American […]
Focus on 5G services as ‘tool for freedom and prosperity’
US and Indian officials held discussions on 5G telecom technology, the next-generation wireless technology that is set to catapult data speeds, during US President Donald’s Trump’s two-day visit to India. Trump, whose administration has pressured India and others to shun equipment made by Huawei Technologies Company Limited of China, said: […]
US president promises India Inc an ease in curbs, investment push
US President Donald Trump assured Indian industry leaders on Tuesday that he would ease regulations to attract more investments as the two countries work towards a broader trade deal. Trump, on the last day of a two-day visit, met several Indian industrialists, including Reliance Industries Ltd’s Mukesh Ambani, Aditya Birla […]
SC to hear Centres’s plea for separate hangings of Delhi gang rape convicts
A three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Justice R Bhanumathi on Tuesday will hear the petition of the Union home ministry asking for separate executions of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder case. The Centre moved the top court after the Delhi High […]
Fresh stone pelting in northeast Delhi; CM Kejriwal calls MLAs for urgent meeting
In the northeastern part of national capital Delhi, stones, pieces of bricks and glass shards lay strewn on a 400-metre stretch of road and plumes of smoke billowed from houses on Tuesday morning. All these were reminiscent of the violence which singed Jafrabad, Maujpur and other areas yesterday. There was fresh stone […]
Amit Shah holds review meeting, prohibitory orders clamped in Northeast Delhi for a month
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday chaired a meeting to review the situation in the national capital, a day after seven people – including a head constable – were killed in violence in Jafrabad, Maujpur and other areas of Northeast Delhi. Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, Chief Minister Arvind […]
‘Am happy’: Kejriwal ahead of Melania’s ‘happiness class’ in Delhi school
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said he is very happy that US first lady Melania Trump will attend “happiness class” at a city school on Tuesday. “.@FLOTUS will attend happiness class in our school today. Great day for our teachers, students and Delhiites. For centuries, India has taught spirituality […]
Tremendous honour, writes Prez Trump after paying tributes to Mahatma Gandhi
US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat after being accorded a ceremonial welcome at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday. The US first couple, who had visited the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad yesterday, placed a wreath at the memorial located on the banks […]
Urban experts seek public hearing, environment impact assessment on Central Vista
Cumulative impact assessment and a public hearing are a must for the Central Vista redevelopment plan, a collective of about 300 architects, environmentalists and urban designers have said in a letter to union environment minister Prakash Javadekar. The letter comes days after the union ministry housing and urban affairs’ construction […]
Ahead of Amit Shah meet, Arvind Kejriwal comes up with to-do list for Delhi cops
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday appealed the protesters in Northeast Delhi for calm, and said issues can only be solved by holding discussions. “Whatever issues people havem they should sit down and talk so that those can be rrsolved. I appeal to everyone with folded hands to maintain peace,” Kejriwal […]
Donald Trump, Narendra Modi meet for talks at Hyderabad House
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are set for talks at Hyderabad house on the second day of the American leader’s two-day visit to India. On the anvil, is the signing of the defence deals and at least five memoranda of understanding (MoUs) on issues ranging from civil nuclear […]
‘Those chanting pro-Pak slogans should be shot at sight’: Karnataka MLA
After the Karnataka Agriculture minister called for a law to “shoot at sight” those who raise pro-Pakistan slogans in the country, another state lawmaker has raised a similar demand. P Appachu Ranjan, an MLA from Kodagu district, said: “Already a woman has proclaimed Pakistan Zindabad at an anti-CAA rally in […]
‘Rahul Gandhi, Cong should name those behind Delhi violence’: Union minister
Union minister for home affairs G Kishan Reddy sought answers from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his party over Monday’s clashes that killed five persons in north-east Delhi between groups that opposed and those that backed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). The minister contented that it was a “conspiracy” to defame India […]