The Cabinet on Wednesday here approved amendments to the HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2014, which was drafted to safeguard the rights of people living with and affected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The cabinet meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The provisions of the bill seek to address HIV-related discrimi...
Jammu, Oct 5 After a nightlong lull, the Pakistan Army on Wednesday again resorted to heavy shelling at Indian positions on the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir. Police said the Pakistan Army used mortars and automatics to target Indian positions in Kalsian area of Nowshera sector. "Pakistanis are using mortar shells and a...
Eyewitnesses from across the LoC have confirmed brief but intense firing during India's surgical strikes of September 29 and how the bodies of those killed were loaded onto trucks for secret burial, The Indian Express reported on Wednesday. According to the report, the eyewitnesses were contacted through their kin on the Indian side and the com...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met visiting Sri Lankan Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe ahead of holding bilateral discussions here on Sednesday. "Furthering partnerships with a valued neighbour. PM @narendramodi meets Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe @RW_UNP at Hyderabad House," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted along with a picture of the two lea...
Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan on Wednesday said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif must quit over charges of money laundering. The cricketer-turned-politician justified the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf's (PTI) decision to boycott a joint session of Parliament to discuss the Kashmir issue. "Nothing new will be achieved that was not achieved with PTI's a...
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj called on visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe here on Wednesday. "Singapore yesterday, Sri Lanka today! EAM @SushmaSwaraj calls on Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe @RX_UNP during his visit to India," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted. Wickremesinghe arrived here on Tuesday on...
Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said there was no need to respond to irresponsible comments and demands by the opposition on the surgical strikes by the Indian Army, and added that no Indian citizen doubted the army's commitment. Speaking to reporters here on the sidelines of inauguration of a modern social infrastructure, the Urb...
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its approval for the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and African-Asian Rural Development Organisation (AARDO) for capacity building programmes in the rural development sector. "The MoU for the triennium 2015-2017 is being signed under which capacity building programmes for AARDO mem...
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence narrowly beat Senator Tim Kaine as they sparred on US policies, the abortion law, the war in Syria and "safe zones" for refugees in the US in a 90-minute TV debate, a CNN poll showed. Debating Kaine on Tuesday night, Indiana Governor Pence taught a master class on how it's done. Every time K...
At least four women belonging to a minority community in Pakistan were killed by unknown assailants in an allegedly sectarian-motivated targeted killing late on Tuesday....
