As EAM Jaishankar pads up for a second term with a new team, foreign policy challenges remain the same

As EAM Jaishankar pads up for a second term with a new team, foreign policy challenges remain the same

BJP MP S Jaishankar takes charge as the External Affairs Minister, in New Delhi, on June 11, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI External Affairs Minister for a second term, S. Jaishankar hit the floor running on June 10, sending out a message of continuity and “business as usual” for Indian foreign policy in the new … Read more

Sikkim CM oath-taking ceremony Live Updates: SKM chief Prem Singh Tamang to be sworn in as Sikkim CM for second term

Sikkim CM oath-taking ceremony Live Updates: SKM chief Prem Singh Tamang to be sworn in as Sikkim CM for second term

Updated – June 10, 2024 01:51 pm IST Published – June 10, 2024 01:49 pm IST Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) leader Prem Singh Tamang meets State Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya to stake claim to form the government in the state at Raj Bhavan, in Gangtok, Sikkim. | Photo Credit: PTI Sikkim Krantikari Morcha supremo Prem … Read more

People keen to ensure one more term to Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy: YSRCP’s Bellana Chandrasekhar

People keen to ensure one more term to Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy: YSRCP’s Bellana Chandrasekhar

Vizianagaram MP Bellana Chandrasekhar, YSRCP’s candidate for Nellimarla Assembly constituency Baddukonda Appalanaidu and other leaders campaigning in Nellimarla of Vizianagaram district on March 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Vizianagaram MP and YSR Congress Party leader Bellana Chandrasekhar said that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s welfare and developmental activities have touched … Read more

Modi vows to ‘make India the third largest economic superpower in the world’ in his third term

Modi vows to ‘make India the third largest economic superpower in the world’ in his third term

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the foundation stone laying and inauguration of various projects, in Varanasi on Dec. 18, 2023. | Photo Credit: – Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday vowed to make India the third largest economy of the world in his third straight term. “When Kashi develops, U.P. develops, and when U.P. … Read more

One-year prison term for MLA for assault on official

One-year prison term for MLA for assault on official

Manjeswaram MLA A.K.M. Ashraf was on Tuesday sentenced to one year in prison and fined ₹10,000 by the Kasaragod Judicial First Class Magistrate Court on the charge of assaulting an official. The incident took place in January 2010. The court also found three others, Bashir Kanila, Abdullah Kaja, and Abdul Khader, all associated with the … Read more

Andhra Pradesh Assembly adopts Bill reducing term of women’s commission chairperson and members to two years

Andhra Pradesh Assembly adopts Bill reducing term of women’s commission chairperson and members to two years

The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly has adopted a Bill to amend the Andhra Pradesh Women’s Commission Act, 1998, with a view to reducing the term of the nominated posts of the chairperson and members of the A.P. Women’s Commission. Moving the Bill on Friday, Minister for Women, Children, Differently Abled and Senior Citizens K.V. Usha … Read more

United States, Germany, seek extradition of antiquities smuggler Subash Kapoor as he finishes decreed jail term 

United States, Germany, seek extradition of antiquities smuggler Subash Kapoor as he finishes decreed jail term 

Subhash Kapoor being escorted by police earlier this month in Kumbakonam | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The jail term of Subash Chandra Kapoor, an international antiques dealer, has ended, but he remains in prison due to a technicality. Kapoor was arrested and remanded to judicial custody in 2012; he was convicted and sentenced to 10 … Read more