Tag: Modi

Pakistan does not engage in conspiracies: Farooq Abdullah on Modi’s accusation

NEW DELHI: National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday dismissed allegations that the Congress colluded with Pakistan to defeat the BJP in the recently concluded assembly polls and stated categorically,...

Congress seeks Modi’s apology over Pakistan remark

NEW DELHI: The parliament session in India on Thursday will begin with the Congress demanding an apology from the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over...

Poll of polls: BJP set to retain Gujarat, win Himachal Pradesh

NEW DELHI: The BJP is set to retain Gujarat and win Himachal Pradesh, according to predictions by various exit polls on Thursday, reported Times...

Modi should attack Pakistan if it is meddling in Gujarat elections:...

MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should display guts and attack Pakistan if it was indeed found "interfering" in the...

Let Modi order arrest of Pakistanis ‘meddling in Gujarat elections’: Owaisi

HYDERABAD: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said if the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi sincerely believes in what he is saying...

‘Don’t drag us into your electoral battle’, Pakistan rubbishes Modi’s allegations

NEW DELHI: A day after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Congress of colluding with Pakistan to defeat the BJP in the Gujarat...

Indians vote in first stage of election seen as acid test...

SURENDRANAGAR: Tens of thousands of Indians voted in the first stage of assembly elections in the western state of Gujarat on Saturday, where Prime Minister...

Mani Shankar Aiyar calls Modi ‘neech’; suspended from Congress

NEW DEHLI: Congress suspended Mani Shankar Aiyar after the former Union minister stoked yet another acrimonious row by describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as...

India’s Modi in final phase of campaigning to retain home base

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the final phase of campaigning on Thursday to retain power in his home state and stave...

Modi’s India: Cash cows and rising nationalism

MUMBAI: Krishna N Das was wrapping up an interview with the head of a group of gau rakshaks – Hindu “cow protector” vigilantes in...

Modi still very popular in India, says Pew poll

NEW DELHI: Nearly nine out of 10 Indians hold a favourable opinion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and more than two-thirds are satisfied with the...

Muslims queue up for BJP tickets in Gujarat polls

AHMEDABAD: Muslims had turned up in large numbers in 2011 when then chief minister Narendra Modi tried an image makeover and launched Sadbhavna Mission...

Modi accuses Congress leader of speaking ‘Pakistan’s language’ over Kashmir issue

  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Congress leader P Chidambaram over his advocacy for greater autonomy for Indian-held...

India to resume dialogue with Hurriyat leadership on Kashmir

NEW DELHI: India on Monday named a former chief of domestic intelligence to lead talks on Kashmir issue, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi moves...

Afghan president to visit New Delhi tomorrow, same day Tillerson will

Afghan President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani is expected to visit New Delhi on Tuesday (tomorrow), the same day as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson...

US ‘considering’ Indian request of armed drones for Indian Air Force

WASHINGTON: The Trump Administration is “considering” India’s request for armed drones for its air force, according to a senior American official. “Yes, yes,” the administration...

Modi wants peace with Pakistan but not at a security cost,...

WASHINGTON: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot “pursue peace” with Pakistan in a way that “cuts his own security”, a top Trump administration official...