India

New York, Sep 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a global call for cooperation on terrorism at the UN General Assembly on Saturday, calling for the world body to speedily adopt a comprehensive international convention of terror, so that no country could differentiate between “good terrorism and bad terrorism.” He also spoke of India’s ‘push for peace’ in the region, saying he wanted “serious

Chennai, Sep 27: Violence broke out in several parts of Tamil Nadu today after Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa was convicted in a graft case with angry AIADMK supporters indulging in stone pelting and arson and forcing closure of shops. Tension prevailed as protesters burnt effigies of DMK President M Karunanidhi, his sons M K Stalin and M K Alagiri and tore party posters in various places including

New York, Sep 27: Describing America as India's "natural global partner", Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here today on a five-day visit to the US, holding out an assurance that India is "open and friendly" for business and innovations. Modi, 64, flew into New York's JFK airport on a special Air India Boeing plane on the first leg of his maiden visit to the US as Prime Minister after a nearly

New York, Sep 26: External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday said Pakistan "spoiled the talks" by talking to Hurriyat leaders just ahead of foreign secretaries of the two nations were scheduled to meet in Islamabad last month. "New (Narendra Modi) government has given a new signal. So they (Pakistan) spoiled the talks, they spoiled the game," Swaraj told Indian reporters here after her

New Delhi/Mumbai, Sep 26: After weeks of hardball politics, the two coalitions in Maharashtra — the ruling Congress-NCP and the opposition BJP-Shiv Sena — parted ways in a bitter way on Thursday night, setting the stage for a multi-cornered contest in the upcoming Assembly elections. The key players were in a wrangle over the sharing of seats for the 288-member Assembly election with the aim of

New Delhi, Sep 25: Describing America as India's "vital partner", Prime Minister Narendra Modi today embarked on his first visit to the US confident that his five-day trip will mark a "new chapter" in bilateral strategic ties. As Modi seeks to promote India as open for business and to mend ties with the US after a bitter diplomatic row last year, Modi said he was looking forward to meeting

Mumbai, Sept 25: BJP and its oldest ally Shiv Sena are likely to part ways ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly elections. A formal announcement in the split of the 25-year-old alliance between the two parties is likely to be announced shortly, top BJP sources said. This follows failure of talks between the two parties after Shiv Sena refused to accept BJP's demand for contesting seats more than last

New Delhi, Sept 25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will roll out a red carpet to attract industrialists to make India a global manufacturing hub, to help create jobs and boost economic growth. Before he embarks on his high profile US visit slated from September 26-30, Modi will launch the Make in India campaign at a mega event here today. The campaign is aimed at making India a manufacturing hub

New Delhi, Sep 25: Smaller outfits on Wednesday put the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance on tenterhooks by rejecting the meagre seats allotted to them in the seat sharing arrangement for the Maharashtra Assembly elections. Swabhimani Paksha, Shiv Sangram and Rashtriya Samaj Paksha, the minor outfits of the grand alliance, threatened to walk out if they were not given “an honourable deal” forcing the

New Delhi, Sep 24: In a major blow to the corporate sector, the Supreme Court today quashed allocation of 214 out of 218 coal blocks which were alloted to various companies since 1993 and in which it was claimed that around Rs 2 lakh crores were invested. A bench, headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha, saved only four blocks--one belonging to NTPC and SAIL each and two allocated to Ultra Mega Power