India

New Delhi, Apr 15: In its final arguments in the 2G spectrum allocation case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday told the Special Court that ex-telecom minister A Raja had misled then PM Manmohan Singh on policy matters pertaining to 2G spectrum allocation. The CBI also said 2G spectrum was granted to ineligible companies such as Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd and Unitech Wireless. The

Ottawa, Apr 15: In the first standalone bilateral visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Canada in 42 years, Prime Minister Narendra reached Ottawa on Wednesday morning. The focus of the visit will be on setting a "trajectory" in ties through cooperation in energy, including civil nuclear, and attracting trade and technology for India's development. Modi will meet his Canadian counterpart Stephen

Berlin, Apr 14: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today sought German Chancellor Angela Merkel's help in concluding a "balanced and mutually beneficial" Free Trade Agreement with the European Union that has been stalled for two years. "I have requested Chancellor Merkel that India and European Union should resume the negotiations quickly and conclude a balanced and mutually beneficial agreement at the

New Delhi, Apr 14: A number of AAP leaders and prominent individuals today stayed away from the convention of party rebels Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan and chose to express solidarity through written statements instead. AAP's Patiala MP Dharamvira Gandhi, who had earlier faced the leadership's ire for taking stand in favour of the dissidents, in a letter stressed the need to work towards

New Delhi, Apr 14: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid tributes to B.R. Ambedkar on his 124th birth anniversary, and said, "Let us pledge to dedicate ourselves to creating India that Ambedkar dreamt of...an India that will make him proud". "I bow to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar on his birth anniversary - Jai Bhim," the prime minister said in a message. "Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar is a yug purush

Raipur, Apr 13: Four security personnel died and 11 others were injured after Naxals triggered a landmine blast in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district today. The security personnel, belonging to Chhattisgarh Armed Force, were travelling in an anti-landmine vehicle near Cholnar village in the district when it crossed over a landmine planted by Naxals, police said. The injured security personnel have

New Delhi, Apr 12: Union Minister General VK Singh today alleged that an "insidious campaign" is being run against him by a section of media, at the behest of the arms lobby that is "working overtime" to subdue him, and that he has briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi about it. "It is only an insidious campaign in which the arms lobby is working overtime. They were not able to subdue me when I was

Paris, Apr 12: In a scathing attack on previous UPA government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that it had allocated coal blocks like one gives away a pen or a handkerchief, resulting in loss of lakhs of crores of rupees. "You must have heard about coal (block allocations)...204 coal blocks were given away just like that...Like someone comes to meet you and you give him your pen, or you

New Delhi, Apr 12: BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlala Nehru over the reported revelations that successive Congress governments had snooped on family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose for 20 years after independence. Swamy took to microblogging website Twitter to show his distress saying self-interest is uppermost for the

Paris, Apr 12: India and France have agreed that a Joint Working Group (JWG) on counter-terrorism will meet and formulate the modalities of greater cooperation on the matter, said the Ministry of External Affairs. "What has been agreed to is that as a first step a Joint Working Group on counter-terrorism will meet forthwith and they will try and work out what will be the modalities of greater