Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday raked up the Kashmir issue in his maiden address but pledged to improve ties with all leading nations, including the country’s neighbours. Shehbaz said that Pakistan would not become part of any “great game” and his government would increase the number of friends. He pledged to build and improve ties with all leading nations, including neighbours. “We will keep ties with neighbours on the basis of equality,” Shehbaz, 72, said as he easily won the election in the National Assembly to become Pakistan’s prime minister for a second time. Shehbaz, however, raked…
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Former Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan announced his decision to quit electoral politics on Sunday, a day after the Bharatiya Janata Party announced the first list of candidates for the coming Lok Sabha elections. Vardhan was among the four sitting MPs who were dropped from the BJP’s candidate list for Delhi, the others being Parvesh Verma, Ramesh Bidhuri and Meenakashi Lekhi. Announcing his decision on micro-blogging site X, Vardhan, a doctor by profession, said he is returning to his ENT clinic at Krishna Nagar. “After over thirty years of a glorious electoral career, during which I won all five assembly and…
In an historic year when more than four billion people will go to the polls, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) lau nches its For Democracy campaign, aiming to unify the power of working people towards a trade union vision for democracy. ITUC General Secretary Luc Triangle said: “Democracy around the world is critically ill. We see a rise in authoritarianism, far-right ideologies, malign corporate influence on politics and the undermining of workers’ rights. “But trade unions of working people have the capacity to heal democracy, and a vision to rejuvenate it. This campaign will rally the collective power…
Jayant Chaudhary’s Rashtriya Lok Dal formally joined BJP-led NDA alliance on Saturday. Chaudhary met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda in the national capital and announced the tie-up on his official X handle. He lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership and vision and said that the NDA is ready to fulfill the resolve to cross the 400 seats mark. “Under the leadership of Shri @narendramodi ji, India is becoming a parallel witness to development and poor welfare! Met @AmitShah ji and @JPNadda ji and decided to join #NDA. NDA is ready to fulfill the resolve…
A ship en route to Pakistan’s Karachi from China has been stopped by Indian security agencies at Mumbai’s Nhava Sheva port on the suspicion that it contained a dual-use consignment that could be used for Pakistan’s nuclear and ballistic missiles programme, officials said on Saturday. Based on an intelligence input, the customs officials halted a Malta-flagged merchant ship – CMA CGM Attila – that was bound for Karachi. Officials said there was a Computer Numerical Control (CNC) on that ship, originally manufactured by an Italian company. CNC machines are basically controlled by a computer and fall under the Wassenaar Arrangement,…
The ruling BJP on Saturday announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fight again from Varanasi in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as it named 34 Union ministers including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Smriti Irani in the first list of 195 candidates. The list also included two former chief ministers — Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh) and Biplab Deb (Tripura) — as well as Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, who will fight again from Kota in Rajasthan. The ruling BJP on Saturday announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fight again from Varanasi in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as it…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a scathing attack against the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal on Saturday and said the party has become synonymous with atrocities and betrayal. He added even after getting voted to power repeatedly, TMC has totally disappointed the state and its people. Addressing a rally at Krishnanagar Prime Minister said, “The way TMC is working here, they have disappointed the people of West Bengal. People have continuously voted for TMC but this party has become another name for atrocities and betrayal. TMC means betrayal, corruption and ‘parivarvad’.” Modi charged that the Mamata Banerjee-led party is using…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday slammed the Mamata Banerjee’s government over the Sandeshkhali violence episode in the state saying the entire country was upset after the incident. He said that Trinamool Congress (TMC) has betrayed West Bengal adding the people of the state are speaking in loud and clear voice that they want BJP. “The country is seeing what TMC has done with the sisters of Sandeshkhali. The whole country is enraged. The soul of Raja Ram Mohan Roy (social reformer) must have been pained by what happened in Sandeshkhali. A TMC leader crossed all limits… The BJP leaders…
In what comes as another setback for the beleaguered Paytm Payments Bank, the Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND) imposed a fine of Rs 5.49 crore on the bank for violating anti-money laundering rules. The fine was imposed “with reference to the violations of its obligations under the PMLA read with the Prevention of Money Laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2005 (PML Rules) issued thereunder and applicable guidelines and advisories issued by the Director FIU-IN,” the finance ministry said in a statement. The action was initiated by FIU-IND following specific information from law enforcement that a few entities and their network of…
Two years after the Russian bombing of the Kyiv TV tower on March 1, 2022, the International Press Institute (IPI) has filed a request with the International criminal Court (ICC) urging it to investigate six dozen serious attacks on Ukrainian journalists and media as potential war crimes and Russia’s war of aggression. The 72 cases, which were documented as part of IPI’s ongoing Ukraine War Press Freedom Tracker, represent the most serious incidents targeting journalists or media outlets since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The list includes the bombing of the TV tower on March 1, 2022, which remains a…