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The speed with which the BJP-led Centre is working, India might attain the status of a developed country 10-15 years before the target set for 2047, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said here on Sunday. Addressing a traders’ convention in the Amar Colony area, Mr Puri said Delhi needs to be developed as a capital…

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Sunday said restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir is not an issue for his party in the Lok Sabha polls, asserting that it will get the statehood anyway in view of commitment by the prime minister and the Union home minister. Mr Abdullah also said the results of…

The Palestinian Authority said on Sunday the Israeli finance ministry was continuing to withhold tax revenues and as a result only a part of public sector salaries would be paid this week, keeping up a squeeze on payrolls that has lasted for months. The Authority said it would pay Palestinian public sector employees 50% of…

Amid the rising dissent in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), and the situation getting grim with every passing day, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that he is “deeply concerned” about it. He added that there is also no tolerance for taking the law in one’s own hands and damaging government properties. “Deeply concerned…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a new defence minister, nominating civilian Andrei Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specialises in economics, for the job more than two years into the Ukraine war, the Kremlin said on Sunday. Putin wants Sergei Shoigu, defence minister since 2012 and a long-standing Putin ally, to become the…

A 55-year-old property dealer was allegedly shot dead by his nephew and his accomplices here, policed said on Sunday. The victims nephew is on the run while his family members have been arrested, they added. According to the police, the incident took place in the Loni Border police station area on Saturday night when the…

With opposition parties claiming that the BJP government in Haryana has lost majority, the ruling party on Sunday dared them to parade their MLAs if they have the numbers. Former chief minister M L Khattar also indicated the BJP government was not averse to a floor test and that six Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) MLAs…

A couple has allegedly abandoned their three minor children, including a nearly two months old boy, at the Gwalior railway station in Madhya Pradesh, police said on Sunday. The two girls, aged 6 and 7, and the boy, who had burn injuries, were found abandoned near the booking counter on Friday night, Railway Protection Force…

The arrest of a habitual offender who has allegedly committed a string of burglaries in Mumbai has left the police stunned as the investigation suggested that it was his mother who made him consume drugs before he stepped out to commit the crime. The accused man, identified as Krishna Ravi Maheskar, 24, has more than…

Congress’s Shashi Tharoor told NDTV today that the Opposition bloc INDIA is heading for a massive victory in Maharashtra — the state where they were able to win only a handful of the 48 seats in 2019. The BJP, too, is aware of this, he said. Pointing to the party’s open invitation for anyone to…